I was involved in a petty argument.

How many women have you talked to and they just faked inferiority to nourish a no body guy just to get a proposal?

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

Far from being a religious fanatic, Merah grew up as a petty criminal with no interest in religion.

Recently, a small event caused a major stir in Russian politics.

Toledo assumed the presidency planning to dismantle the corruption that marked Fujimori's administrations and end the reign of his crooked chief of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos.

FDI is negligible in primary activities and low in manufacturing. An exception is Mexico, from which relatively more outward FDI has been in manufacturing.

This con man, Henry Oberlander, he was such an effective con man British authorities say he could have undermined the entire banking system of the Western world.

But such contagion risk is trivial compared to the wildfire that could be ignited by imposing losses on small depositors.

That includes my last email from him, in September 2010, where he called a particular app I had introduced to him really...crummy. )

Even a brawl between the Chinese and a visiting American basketball team is viewed as evidence of China s aggressive behavior.

Or is it something absolutely trivial, like a piece of lint, or a piece of chalk, or a I don't want to point to that, but or a shoe, or something like that? OK?

Aron wrote cool, sleek prose about the most heated geopolitical conflicts, while Sartre could turn any triviality into an existential crisis.

That, and I will say this to the scientists, that the trickster has the ability to hold his ideas lightly so that he can let room in for new ideas or to see the contradictions or the hidden problems with his ideas.

His boldest proposal eliminating deductions for interest paid on mortgages on second homes is trivial in terms of generating revenue.

While Dick Grayson's past remains much the same, the history of Jason Todd, the second Robin, is altered, turning the boy into the orphan son of a petty crook, who tries to steal the tires from the Batmobile.

The result was a global explosion of Ponzi finance named after the notorious Italian American swindler Charles Ponzi which purported to make such paper as safe and valuable as houses.

But I have also recognized, in the course of seeing that violence, that being in the face of things and seeing actually what's in front of us is the antidote to depression and to a feeling that one is worthless and has no value.

3. In the event that the recommendations made by the joint body and accepted by the Secretary General are unfavourable to the applicant, and insofar as this is the case, the application shall be receivable, unless the joint body unanimously considers that it is frivolous.

The academics who were overseeing this work thought that that was too frivolous, so we built deadly serious applications like this optics prototyping workbench in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser.

In the Bronx or in Soho, in Washington Square or Times Square, in front of the New York Public Library or near a hot dog stand, across all the planets races, the banal vies with the exceptional for one s attention.

The brilliant swindler had declared himself the cacique of Poyais, after the Miskito king Frederik Augustus in 1820 had handed over to him immense swathes of land (12,500 square miles) so he could establish there a huge monarchical state, what actually ended up being the biggest international scam of the 19th century.

And they have provided only about 250 million in aid over the last decade a paltry sum, given the potential consequences of Afghan instability for China s 6 trillion economy.

Finally, the tariff was also bad diplomacy why should anyone enter into an agreement with a US government that appears eager to demonstrate that it will break its commitments for the tiniest of imagined domestic political benefits?

It is one thing to back the European project when the idea is to bind Germany so tightly to France that never again will anybody think it worthwhile to wage a war over what language is spoken in Alsace Lorraine.

He also turned a page After months of being pilloried by every pundit with a soapbox for indecision and weakness, and for presiding over policy paralysis while corrupt colleagues allegedly made off with the country s silver, Singh has boldly seized the initiative.

A very silly, trivial thing to do, but think of the difference on a team that didn't do that at all, that got 15 euro, put it in their pocket, maybe bought themselves a coffee, or teams that had this prosocial experience where they all bonded together to buy something and do a group activity.

Now this seems like a fairly, you know, frivolous, but what happened as a result of that, is that that school now is forming a sex education class. It's beginning to talk about sex, it's beginning to look at why it would be wrong for a young high school girl to talk about her vagina publicly or to say that she loved her vagina publicly.