But that is trifling, set against her three biggest gripes.
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" They should seek divine counsel on even the "most trifling matters.
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At the figures currently being discussed, it is nothing so trifling.
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When American tech companies first encountered these concerns they were relatively trifling.
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Wrongful deportation of children and their mothers is not a trifling thing.
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There was also the trifling inconvenience of his appendix bursting during production.
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This period of direct contact lasted six visits during a trifling three years.
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Yet this trend towards trifling or zero estate taxes ought to give pause.
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True, we said, some of the achievements that Mr Gore claimed were trifling.
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The last time this trifling trifecta happened, Jim Crow was alive and well.
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Their trifling nonsense, however, can, and often does, shift the course of history.
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Samsung made only trifling changes compared to the cameras on the Galaxy S10.
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All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches.
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Amy, something of a trifling figure: a rich playboy whose good looks and
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The issue may seem to be a trifling one, but it does matter.
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Some of our cousins in the animal kingdom do not avoid these trifling taboos.
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Barbara as Jacqueline (with Ramon Novarro as Henri) in "Trifling Women" (formerly "Black Orchids").
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Yet all this looks trifling compared with the indiscretions he now stands accused of.
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Every situation, no matter how trifling, is an opportunity to embarrass yourself in public.
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Clearly, trade is a trifling source of job loss when compared with other sources.
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That unique relationship with the leaders of the world powers isn't a trifling matter.
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Dispossession of one's property is a trifling violation compared with theft of one's personhood.
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As for my own experience, the only complaint I have is a trifling one.
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Trifling with religion is always treacherous territory, and some of the faithful might be offended.
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In America demagogues portray any trifling curb on gun ownership as a plot against whites.
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For all of its more trifling pleasures, Normal People is a work of art itself.
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He's a goal object that has been studied for his trifling ways, analyzed and gamed.
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But California's relatively trifling ceiling can add up quickly for firms with thousands of users.
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"Petty" is both the trifling junk and the person who can't resist dealing in it.
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Changing the way people book accommodation and cars seems trifling next to changing what they eat.
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The sums involved are trifling: £8.6m ($11.3m) in Britain and $26m from the Department of Energy.
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North Korea citizens are regularly subjected to arrest for trifling crimes and sentenced to labor camps.
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When their failures echo the trifling rottenness and cruel unaccountability of the broader world, I react.
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There are essayists who can take the most arcane or trifling subjects and make them enthralling.
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"Corn producers for Maseca earn a trifling amount because they have to go through intermediaries," she says.
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Like some other notes within the report, this seems like a distinction that's both important and trifling.
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As Kelli practically prophesied in Malibu, a newly single Issa's countless app-curated dates are all trifling.
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We still don't know pricing or availability, but these are trifling matters when it comes to desire.
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And doesn't Puth realize that he is trifling with powers far greater than he's ever encountered before?
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Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else.
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At the moment, demand for carbon dioxide as a raw material is a trifling 80m tonnes a year.
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LYNDA, NEW JERSEY Don't let a trifling matter like applesauce grow a millimeter larger than it has to.
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As trifling as this may be, I welcomed the patriarchy here — a brand that made me feel validated.
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It is trifling (my words, not Jackson-Roberts') to put your phone next to your mat during class.
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Dr. Rose suggests finding a middle ground between underreacting and overreacting, even if a child's infatuation seems trifling.
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It devolves into clichéd "I can't let you do that" confrontations on its way to a trifling punch line.
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"Two-Kid-Tristan, will now be best known for known for TRIFLING while he's traveling," one basketball-savvy commenter remarked.
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The felony carries a relatively trifling five-year maximum prison sentence, rather than the decades permitted by the Espionage Act.
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So if you're getting up late and you're trifling, and you're not getting your homework done, that's what you're practicing.
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The leading U.S. and German stock indexes are down a relatively trifling 3% and 0.33% in the past seven months.
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You have too deeply discounted the value of your friend's fair-trade enterprise and over-magnified your relatively trifling concerns.
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You probably aren't aware of this trifling fact, but the football club *WAYNE ROONEY* Manchester United won a game on Saturday.
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We've all grown too quick and willing to overreact with disapproval, typically to such trifling things as tweets or assertions like B.o.
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The losers in this exchange were subsequently ignored, told that temporary wage assistance or retraining programs would paper over these trifling problems.
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More Chinese stocks enter the MSCI benchmark emerging market index on Monday, although China's overall weighting is still a trifling 29 percent.
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He was regularly thrown into solitary confinement for trifling misdemeanors, things like failing to stand when a prison guard entered his cell.
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A sitting secretary of state, at odds with his president and blaming the city's trifling instincts for stoking tensions, is another matter.
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It's just a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity.
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And even among progressive activists, the places where Sanders and Warren split can appear trifling in contrast to Biden's "return to normalcy" message.
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In 22018 it was embroiled in another bloody war that cost perhaps 70,000 lives after it invaded Ethiopia over a trifling border dispute.
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I would also have preferred to see a USB-C connector rather than the rapidly deprecating Micro USB, but that's a trifling concern.
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The amounts of money involved in CEO pay may be enormous to the eyes of individuals, but they are trifling in corporate terms.
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"A taradiddle is by definition a petty lie, a little falsehood or trifling told often to amuse or embellish a story," he said.
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That is a trifling increase for a city with 2.7m residents, but is at least a welcome sign of stability after decades of decline.
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While both Linda and Ellen pretend to be okay with their man's noncommittal ways, they eventually break up with his low-key trifling behind.
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Tiny, electorally trifling and obsessed with guns and weed, cherished emblems of its 24,25 members' freedom, the party has never mattered in national politics.
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The total market for e-cigarettes remains trifling in comparison with sales of the normal sort, at about $200m a year, according to Euromonitor.
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It is suspected of commercialising and trifling with rights and privileges that patriots regard as sacred; and of making life easier for crooks and terrorists.
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This opinion, though not universal, isn't uncommon in male-dominated fields like hers, which can be prone to viewing social media as a trifling pursuit.
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And though developers have offered a trifling number of affordable housing units in the area, it's not enough to meaningfully slow the pace of change.
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Yet these are trifling blemishes in an account of one small place that conveys unforgettably the staggering variety and abundance of the whole natural world.
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The humor of this trifling anecdote is uncannily pitched to 3- to 33-year-olds, and Gomi's witty one-dimensional illustrations drolly complement his storytelling.
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It is a product of trying to form the required semblance of politeness with your customers but then getting trifling email complaints and bad Yelp reviews.
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A €50,000 grant may look trifling compared to the enormity of the challenge, stopping misinformation from spreading online, whether it was erroneously stated or deliberately deceitful.
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And yet, my queerness is not a trifling attribute; I cannot and — I have learned — should not maintain a shroud of secrecy just because I'm married.
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By contrast, the demands of the Tea Party's champions, a group of 40-odd congressmen known as the House Freedom Caucus, were trifling and self-defeating.
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In a 1976 New York cover article he coined "the 'Me' Decade" to describe the 1970s, which I'd misremembered as some trifling swipe at yuppie narcissism.
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But over the last week, such worries have come to feel almost trifling, as Mississippi's state prisons have exploded with gang warfare, riots, disorder and killing.
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Notwithstanding the latter trifling defects, it will not be Robinson's or Sunkara's fault if socialism does not arrive by the end of the twenty-first century.
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Now subtract all the drug dealers, trifling baby daddies, cheating and/or abusive husbands, and leads romantically involved with nonblack women, and you don't have much left.
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Made of several ounces of ice-cold, undiluted gin or vodka, and a trifling amount of vermouth, it is a prelude to a stagger and a nap.
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Royals may not be just like you or me, but they are, The Crown insists, prone to indulging the same trifling nonsense as the rest of us.
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A decade later the notional value of all derivatives outstanding globally stands at a trifling $639trn, of which 19873% are centrally cleared through a handful of clearing houses.
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Even where their policies are innovative, the specifics can sound trifling—perhaps especially in Los Angeles because its mayoralty has less power than those of other big cities.
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Though it might seem trifling to some, this is a distinction worth making, and understanding, as the rise of more ideologically socialist candidates invites new and pointed scrutiny.
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The costs are currently trifling; governments raise perhaps $30bn a year worldwide in carbon levies, a fraction of the $2trn in profits that America Inc generated last year.
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To some this is a trifling matter but for businesses and individuals this can prove to be hugely damaging, especially when they are trying to reach younger audiences.
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Anytime you hear talk about "console wars" or "resolutiongate" or other trifling, in-the-weeds gaming "controversies," there's probably a 100-page long discussion thread about it on NeoGAF.
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The overall homicide rate, at 1.24 per 100,000 people, remains well below its recent peak of more than 1.5 in the early 2000s, and is trifling by international standards.
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The Shu Lien / Silent Wolf love story, in particular, gets reduced to a few bare speeches, which makes it feel trifling by comparison with Crouching Tiger's ageless, aching romance.
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Peter Bull, who was playing Pozzo, claimed that his experiences of war were trifling in comparison with the "waves of hostility", "mass exodus" and "audible groans" of the first performance.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has for decades served as the final arbiter on sports disputes throughout the world, ruling on thousands of cases ranging from trifling to momentous.
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BIRMINGHAM, England — If not for the trifling matter of Britain potentially abandoning the European Union, Rowan Crozier figures the factory he oversees would already be clattering away with extra urgency.
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A visit to McDonald's is, for most, a journey back in time to a period when Americans were too concerned about communists to worry about trifling matters like heart disease.
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But even by this administration's low standards, trifling with the census, which is required by the Constitution and is a foundation of American democracy, represents a serious breach of trust.
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After all, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the 77-year-old strongman who has ruled this oil-rich Central Asian state for nearly three decades, tolerates no challenge, however trifling, to his autocratic rule.
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In 2013 Texas passed several laws to make that harder: it raised the qualifying age of some offences and, in effect, decriminalised relatively trifling ones, such as rowdy behaviour on buses.
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For major funds looking to deploy $50 million at a time, financing a $503 million renewable energy project or sinking $12 million into a grid storage start-up can seem trifling.
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Here, too, the end is taken to justify the means; someone else's anguish comes to seem like a trifling price to pay for the greater cause a documentary claims to serve.
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Deprived of much freedom and many comforts (they have one afternoon off per week and hot baths are a rationed luxury), they turn on one another, fanning trifling grievances, exaggerating minor slights.
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So far this year the curve has flattened 65 bps and they've sold $1 billion, a trifling amount in nominal terms but a rare reversal of the typical flow into U.S. bonds.
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While one video features a propaganda film protesting the US's ruthless military assaults, the other illustrates the site's recent conversion into a tourism spot, complete with gun ranges and other trifling activities.
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It's hard to say whether this has much chance of passing, but Congressional Republicans haven't been shy about using the CRA to obliterate Obama rules on trifling matters like coal waste in rivers.
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In that reading, the White Walkers represent the looming extinction-level threat facing Earth, and the war for the Iron Throne is the trifling political maneuvering that nations focus on to our peril.
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In present day, the toughest chick currently residing in all of Westeros, young girl and local badass Lyanna Mormont, calls out all the trifling lords sworn to House Stark right to their face.
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But more than that, it was no trifling matter, given that I intended to propose marriage to her the following night, at a different restaurant at the end of another endless dirt road.
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Although this increase had been universally expected and is also so small that many Fed watchers will characterize it as trifling, it is still hard to downplay the significance of the Fed's decision.
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Plenty of teen dramas alternate between paper-thin plots and Very Special Episodes; one of The OC's talents was its ability to combine the two, treating its trifling stories as epic, life-altering events.
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Contrast China's and India's trifling promises with President Obama's attempts to shut down the U.S. coal industry and all coal-fired power plants, a self-inflicted wound utterly unmatched in the rest of the world.
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He has won no trophies at all as a manager, as Mourinho, outraged that Tottenham should have been attracting praise for such trifling things as smart recruitment and promotion of young players, has noted previously.
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Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins.
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Using data from the tax office up until 2015-20.01, they focus on the incomes of not just the top 22008%—who earned a trifling £209,22015 ($216,20.01) or more in that year—but the top 19903%.
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All these actions, potentially fatal to Tesla over the long term, are by-products of a single-minded, irresponsible CEO who views the law and product quality as a trifling interference on the road to profitability.
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That said, "DEVS" isn't exactly a thriller, but simply unnerving -- a bold concept, about the perils of scientific breakthroughs that might change everything, or nothing, with inherent warnings about mankind trifling with forces beyond its understanding.
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But to reward another trifling, self-regarding romance set in the entertainment industry now would suggest that, for all its humanitarian posturing, Hollywood really only cares about the world within five miles of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Instead of growing a spine and recognizing just how important it is to Google's business, the UK government is taking a comparatively trifling sum of money and going on a PR campaign to make itself look proactive.
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The movie is trifling, a bit meandering, and certainly a little repetitive, not just on themes that Allen has hit in previous movies but even this movie itself—I'm pretty sure one character says the same line twice.
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Soccer has become the nation's most popular team sport in terms of participants but its share of broadcast revenues and gate receipts remains trifling next to the dominant football codes of top-flight Australian Rules and rugby league.
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After your first time at CES or any big shopping center, you come away with a mix of awe (at the massive scale) and a budding cynicism (at the trifling problems being solved by most products on show).
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While pop culture also commonly makes fun of cargo shorts-wearing men for being unstylish, there's something more insidious in how women who subscribe to things deemed unserious and generic are considered to be trifling members of society.
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" Things changed by 1918, when the paper shrank its list to 100: "Owing to the pre-emption by the war, there is much less time on the part of the general reader for … the literary trifling of peacetime.
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In much of "Practical Magic," the Owens sisters' power is either dismissed as an impediment to being accepted in suburbia or wasted on the small things, like petty love spells and trifling with a dead, no-good boyfriend.
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So it was no trifling matter two weeks ago when, after back-to-back poor outings, Masahiro Tanaka began pitching from the first-base side of the rubber for the first time in his three seasons with the Yankees.
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Bergstrom has pushed back on one widely trafficked apples-to-oranges comparison that made the rapidly growing death toll from coronavirus look trifling by placing it next to the larger but steady fatalities from endemic diseases such as malaria.
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If it were too easy to do procedurally, or it could be resorted to for trifling acts of maladministration, factions opposed to the president would be tempted to try to overturn elections and grind the government to a halt.
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Of course this lawsuit feels trifling following the 2012 federal complaint filed by a coalition of education, civil rights, and social justice groups challenging the admissions process for these specialized high schools, saying they disproportionately disadvantage Black and Latinx students.
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To name a few: watching the Power Rangers on a Sunday morning, trifling with helpless Sims until the wee hours of the night, and that rare occurrence when my parents would take me to Micky D's and buy me a Happy Meal.
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But given a 2012 study estimated there are around 4.8 million American men who have sex with men (MSM), that represents around 1.25 percent of them—a trifling number, considering the CDC believes that one in four should be offered the drug by their doctors.
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This is not anyone's first rodeo, and the dedication of powerful people to the most trifling bullshit and vainglory is not a problem unique to Russia, but just because all this absurd venality isn't surprising doesn't mean there still isn't something shocking about it.
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Failure, in that game, was real, even if that failure may have been a consequence of fairly trifling circumstances: the mood of the team that particular evening, something someone said to someone else earlier that day, the ball bouncing one way and not another.
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In particular, Mr. Trump's win pointed to tectonic failures within the mainstream news media, whose leading brands had fanned the showman's rise with copious television coverage; indulged his every gimmick with yet more attention; and elevated his opponent's trifling email-management kerfuffle into a scandal of world-historic import.
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Yet not only does it encourage pettiness, distilling the messiness of human experience down to a digitally precise data point, but by making it so easy to pay someone back for purchases as trifling as a coffee, the app arguably promotes the libertarian, every-user-for-himself ethos of Silicon Valley.
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I got the impression that the company was implying its workers preferred this injustice — they were single moms and college students who valued the flexibility and character-building precariousness of their gig worker status more than such trifling elite concerns as getting the full amount of money customers intended them to have.
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I got the impression that the company was implying its workers preferred this injustice — they were single moms and college students who valued the flexibility and character-building precariousness of their gig worker status more than such trifling elite concerns as getting the full amount of money customers intended them to have.
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"North Korean citizens are regularly subjected to arrest for trifling crimes and sentenced to labor camps," according to a recent CNN op-ed by John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, who noted a 2014 UN report that found many die in prison from beatings, malnourishment or untreated sickness, among other causes.
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As their experiments go on, as the team becomes unnerved by their interactions with the dead, as Brock's anxiety of the parent company interfering with his work wind up, it seems clear they may be trifling with something more powerful than they can grasp, no matter how many gigantic 70s computers they have beeping and clicking at their disposal.
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A billionaire like Tom Steyer can spend a trifling amount of his net worth, akin to your average American spending a few hundred bucks, to replace actual politicians on stage in the Democratic primary, all while his aides allegedly bribe local officials for endorsements with the promise of campaign contributions—which is all legal, as long as it's disclosed.
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It has to do, she thinks, with the general trifling nature of her behavior in Madagascar, where her brown skin and her American expansiveness lend her a false sense of familiarity with the people of color around her: people of the island, whose language she doesn't speak, and whose values and motives she will never fully understand.
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She told me about The Weeping Time — the largest single sale of human beings in American history, which took place on a racetrack in Savannah in 1857 to pay off a gambling debt — as well as slave manifests, and how some of the language of those manifests (words like "trifling" and "sorry," used to describe slaves) came to be appropriated by black culture.
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During both her solo career and her years as a member of Destiny's Child, Beyoncé's music has often referenced the trifling, perhaps fictional, humans who have wronged her — from the man who would would max out a young Bey's card, give her bad credit, and buy her gifts with her own ends to the hater who said she couldn't breathe without him to the man who showed his ass and became the best thing Beyoncé never had.
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To find out more about his career, read his welcome post; for four decades of critical reviews, check out his regularly updated website Homeboy Sandman: Veins (Stones Throw) Given how it signs off by wrapping "God" and "Speak Truth" around "Nonbelievers"' and its "light brown privilege" verse, 2016's 16-track, 40-minute Kindness for Weakness feels so much like a signature classic that this 10-track, 25-minute follow-up seems trifling despite its identical minutes-per-song ratio.
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