When compared with human rights abuses that truly affect humanity, the complaints dealt with by the British courts are small beer. Which child goes to what school or what public housing is offered to which asylum seeker will be of concern to many people (and views will differ).

The effort was far from worthless.

The victims here are always regarded as insignificant.

That would be accompanied by the ejection of a comparatively insignificant quantity of radioactivity into the environment.

Conspiracy theories are seen as vulgar and lowbrow.

Among men's excuses to divorce women are 1. ما تعرف كيف تحترمني ، دون محاولة منه إصلاح الأمر ، أو إخبارها بالأمور التي يحبها أو لا يحبها ! 2. زواجي كان تقليدي ، وما أشوف إن الزواج ناجح !

From today s perspective, the problems of the Nixon era look relatively manageable, even trivial.

But to the rest of the world, Chen has been revealed as a petty liar over a pitiful amount of money.

So it's a slight misquote. The articles were edited quite heavily.

Most offenses were trivial, and only a few were illegal.

The arrest of thousands of youth on frivolous grounds might prove to be the shot in the arm of the armed insurgency in Kashmir. ابن حسین ( polar_winds) October 22, 2016

They speak clearly and offer banalities while exchanging notes under the table.

The coming months of campaigning for the US presidency will be spent in petty brawling over what should be cut.

Such programs receive a paltry 25 million in the 2013 budget.

Solar and wind energy account for a trivial proportion of current renewables about one third of one percentage point.

Or the 1963 Jaguar It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time, but the owners love it.

Yet when it came to US action, the most that the US could offer financially was slight debt relief for Egypt ( 1 billion), scant loan guarantees ( 1 billion), and some insurance coverage for private investments.

Biofuels reduce emissions by only ten Mt, and solar panels by a paltry three Mt.

(Update This post was previously illustrated by a photo that was misidentified as showing the body of Pope Shendoua III) Following his death announcement, vapid posts started spreading over the Internet about the Pope's political stand, and Pro government SCAF positions.

That leaves only one solution pile on new claims to such an extent that old debts appear paltry.

This anxiety is also associated with the fear of being hacked or of colleges and employers exploring social media pages and finding unsavory things posted.

The pressure brought to bear on JPMorgan Chase was completely inconsequential nothing significant will change.

A rich and powerful Japan in a region as dangerous as East Asia cannot go on playing military bit parts forever.

This is controversial enough the decision is motivated by a large influx of asylum seekers, often offering frivolous reasons, originating from Serbia.

Everyone who borrows or interacts with the credit system in any way would suffer a shock that would make the crisis of 2008 look small.

Nevertheless, they find that many of our biggest concerns will turn out to be trivial, or even beneficial.

Great as they are, the costs are trivial in comparison to the expense of humanitarian aid, international military intervention, and reconstruction assistance.

In a sense, Pussy Riot created a simulacrum of a punk rock group, a piece of performance art about anonymous protest musicians being mistaken for real musicians by real musicians.

For, in a complicated economic system that feeds back on itself in many ways, events that start a vicious cycle might be as seemingly trivial as the proverbial butterfly in the Amazon, which, by flapping its wings, sets off a chain of events that eventually results in a far away hurricane.

One reason that we can afford to increase the amount of aid we give is that the amount we are giving now is insignificant in comparison to what we spend on other things.

We need to find a viable, long term strategy that is smart, equitable, and doesn t require inordinate sacrifice for trivial benefits.

While Obama s first term could not be called a foreign policy disappointment, his achievements although not trivial have been limited.

With no need to concern themselves about elections, China s leaders can afford to plan for the longer term and do what is necessary without being impeded by petty selfish interests or a carping press.

Then Warren hit them where it hurt. There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it.

Its leaders squabbled, regarding themselves as the sole possible rulers and engaging in wishful thinking that some external factor would hand them whatever they wanted.

I think we will see a similar story with 3D printing, as it grows from a novelty into something useful and disruptive and sufficiently cheap and widespread to be used for (relatively) frivolous endeavors as well.

As scandalous as it might be, these sums are mere peanuts compared to the 4.5 billions in oil revenues supposedly siphoned away from African government coffers over the last decade.

India s 300 plus television news channels have been no better than the print media, devoting almost all of their time to parsing every morsel of information leaked or announced by the police.

In forty years, a demographic implosion within China, the consequence of its one child policy, will make European and Japanese concerns about aging populations look trivial.

In sum, he proposed that it must be possible to distinguish a finite number of distinct grammatical features of a language, and for each of them explain its workings in such a way as to generate trivial (obviously correct) statements of the truth conditions of all the (infinitely many) sentences making use of that feature.

Most offenses were trivial, and only a few were illegal. Upwardly mobile MPs from the ruling Labour Party claimed the trappings of their newly acquired middle class status second homes, mock tudor beams, and plasma screen televisions.

Again, Washington lobbyists have bought into the absurd claim of trade experts such as Fred Bergsten that the gain from Doha, as it stands now, is a paltry 7 billion or so annually.

Instead of providing quality elementary education for all, our policymakers are more concerned with enacting caste based measures aimed at short term political gains.

China can already see considerable problems in the medium term. In forty years, a demographic implosion within China, the consequence of its one child policy, will make European and Japanese concerns about aging populations look trivial.

This may seem a trivial issue, but it is not, given the Bank s strong policies to protect against nepotism.