| On a pettier level, magistrates appear to have terrorised communities with impunity. |
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| That's how the problems of everyday life seem to be pettier and more insignificant. |
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| Sentences have got tougher, with longer stints in prison for pettier offences. |
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| No government is going to deviate far from those priorities. But that still leaves room for a lot of pettier politicking. |
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| That corporation is only slightly pettier than they are greedy, and they are overdue to reap the consequences. |
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| In the end, Mr Bush's team had to resort to pettier sorts of persuasion. |
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| However, the presidency imposes on people different behavior than the one they adopted when navigating pettier political byways. |
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| It was pettier than the actress Lori Petty being scolded by a petty officer for buying a petticoat with petty cash to wear at a Tom Petty concert. |
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| In her film Addicted to Sheep, Magali Pettier added clarity to a woolly subject by raising the profile of hill farming, and she's now reaping the rewards. |
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