It argued that attaching the tiny tracking device to a car's undercarriage was too trivial a violation of property rights to matter, and that no one who drove in public streets could expect his movements to go unmonitored.
"This is a trivial amount from a Russian macro perspective, " said Ivan Tchakarov, Renaissance Capital's chief economist.
The fact that porting Android apps to BlackBerry is a trivial matter is a big win of you are looking at marketing through the volume of apps on the device.
Indeed, Americans who regard the president's misbehaviour and its consequences as anything but trivial make a similar argument.
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Even something as trivial as a broken tail light can mean failure.
Such gripes, whilst arguably trivial in a successful side, are valid as the current Netherlands side are not the aesthetically pleasing product of generations past.
There were changes in three of the five credit card categories in the second half of July, but these changes seem relatively trivial against a backdrop of a budget discussion that could be a real game-changer for credit card rates.
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The first is that corruption is pervasive at every level of society and is not a trivial complaint like the common cold, but a cancer.
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Last year for a Trivial Pursuit ad, Corbis had to find Tonya Harding in a trailer park in rural Washington to clear rights to her old skating footage.
Moving from one State to another is not a trivial or simple task for such specialists.
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But shipping is almost always a trivial contributor to the environmental impact of eating.
If the basis is very low, the penalty tax may be a trivial consideration.
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It may seem a trivial change, but could have unforeseen consequences further up the food chain.
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These days print piracy is a trivial issue, since most general news articles are given away free.
Now we can regard this as a trivial point of mine, fine, go ahead and do so.
This kind of policing is not a trivial matter in Ireland given the reach of Irish libel law.
Actually, the truth is that 4, 000 tonnes or so of uranium in the ground is a trivial amount.
You might think this a trivial quibble and at one level it is.
So a deal was reached, through a shell company, for Apple to purchase that trademark for a trivial sum.
What, first world people cannot spend even a trivial amount of their own cash on solving trivial first world problems?
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Thus the battle of Waterloo, apparently, is a trivial historical subject, but the distribution of eye-colour among Frenchmen is not.
This is a trivial example of course: but the same basic principle pervades all new technologies and ways of doing things.
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My gut tells me Russia is a trivial player in influencing demand, although its GDP growth has been quite splendid, at 4%.
First there was AOL. Remember how hard it was to block access to what most admins considered a trivial time waster?
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And there what reads like a trivial parliamentary squabble becomes serious indeed.
But the glorification of a mass murderer is not a trivial offense.
The new system will, however, be ideally suited for spotting tourists or students who overstay on their visas, but that is a trivial issue.
"It was a trivial incident - I told her to try and sort it out for herself first of all, and she did, " he says.
That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role.
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