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Likewise, a half-dozen recent studies prove beyond a reasonable doubt what every veteran policeman knows: Most prisoners are not petty, nonviolent thieves or mere first-time, low-level drug offenders.
She put up with petty bad stuff too, like the constant carping of her male colleagues about her lack of a gentle touch, or the punishments doled out by the writers for her--a single mother--occasional forays into romance.
Received letter from GOP Chair Jim Nicholson and found it "petty, it's vindictive and it's insulting."
If they can't have their own man in the Oval Office, it seems, they will do anything--no matter how petty or self-serving or just plain stupid--to cripple the Democratic agenda that won Clinton his office not once, but two times in a row.
"In England, the rule was well established that 'no lord could be sued by a vassal in his own court, but each petty lord was subject to suit in the courts of a higher lord.