The victims here are always regarded as insignificant.

Conspiracy theories are seen as vulgar and lowbrow.

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

The effort was far from worthless.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

Of course, such a rise would not be a trivial problem. It would affect about 400 million people, force the relocation of 15 million, and imply costly protection of the rest.

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

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

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).

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.

It is vital that we do not waste this unique opportunity for significant reform of the United Nations and, at all costs, avoid squandering this chance in petty point scoring or negotiations to the lowest common denominator.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Compared to the 787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama last month, that 32 billion is trivial. It s also less than 0.25 for every 100 that Americans earn.

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.

But the report s fundamental legacy remains we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies.

North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world s most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.

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.

Consider how gangsters in crime movies talk when they know that the police are listening. They speak clearly and offer banalities while exchanging notes under the table.