It may make a petty person all the more petty, or a shy person more sociable.
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Bringing up Mr Obama's association with Bill Ayers, a former terrorist, made him look petty on a day on which the Dow Jones had lost 8% of its value and people have much bleaker issues on their minds.
This was essentially a petty move to send a message that the TSA team is not happy about being mocked.
He is a petty thief who comes a cropper when he falls in love with Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack) - a geeky, complex bag of a neuroses.
Summers was released from prison in July on a petty theft conviction as part of a California law designed to ease crowding in state prisons.
Septuagenarian, born in Patagonia, Petty has a lilting Scottish burr.
The Magic organization looks petty for relieving a coach who won two-thirds of his regular season games, and Mr. Howard looks similarly petty and diva-ish for failing to co-exist professionally with a proven coaching talent.
He left the Navy as a chief petty officer in 2009 with a chest full of medals, including two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars, according to his service record released by the Pentagon.
His acclaimed 1964 book, "Gideon's Trumpet, " told the story of a petty thief whose fight for legal representation led to a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Would a free market capitalist sabotage their business model and market share for a petty 4.9 percent, that will never pass a GOP senate?
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In his most human film, the 1952 Ikiru, a petty bureaucrat learns he is dying of cancer and resolves to do one good thing: fight for the creation of a city park.
In this 1933 musical comedy, the round-eyed, sweetly leering comedian Eddie Cantor stars as Eddie, a bookish drifter who is run out of the small town of West Rome for speaking truth to the petty martinet of a mayor.
" "They revealed him to be a megalomaniac, in many ways kind of a petty individual.
For them, the issue of Jerusalem is no more than a petty real estate squabble.
For those who cannot get such regular jobs, a petty business is the next best thing.
John Larimer, 27, a Petty Officer Third Class with the U.S. Navy, was from Crystal Lake, Ill.
She is also swimming against two currents in American life: petty puritanism and a pathological obsession with safety.
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While on bail for this offence, he stabbed two people at a wedding reception last year after a petty argument.
The 29-year-old Navy petty officer found a loophole in the Uniform Code of Military Justice called the Military Whistleblower Protection Act.
But we turned to another Bush who could restore dignity to an office that had been sullied by a petty sex scandal.
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What Bangladeshis still do not know is whether the army's intervention has shocked the country's squabbling, petty politicians into a new approach.
The only problem is that, while the behavior may now seem appropriate, whining will forever be a petty, unpleasant, primitive mode of expressing oneself.
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In his 2010 autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime, " Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals.
The spat even disintegrated into a petty quarrel over large vehicles.
"It was like a floating village, " said the 54-year-old, who worked on HMS Sheffield, HMS Southampton, HMS Manchester and HMS Newcastle as a leading seaman and a petty officer.
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But he was now a petty warlord beholden to no one, and his rank of "general" was recognized due to his years of fealty and service against the Taliban.
The founders of the Navy Memorial envisioned this Lone Sailor at 25 years old at most, a senior second class petty officer who is fast becoming a seagoing veteran.
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In his autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime, " Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals, according to the book's publisher, La Manufacture De Livres.
Questions have been raised as to why Mohammed Merah -- a petty criminal who was placed under surveillance by French authorities after visiting Pakistan and Afghanistan -- was not being more closely watched.
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