| Either they have no idea what is at stake, or they place pettifogging bureaucracy above all else. |
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| These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism. |
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| One of the many pettifogging annoyances of being a chap is the complete inability to explain how one would like one's hair cut. |
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| Their concern was brushed off as a pettifogging detail rather than an understandable concern. |
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| Here is a stickler from an earlier age … here is pettifogging fogey made flesh. |
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| Vague and pettifogging rules have been used to harass and close dozens of non-governmental organisations. |
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| Therefore, as has already been mentioned, this is not about standing up for pettifogging local interests. |
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| I think more presidencies with such a pro-European attitude and less in the way of a pettifogging national outlook on the part of whatever government is at the helm would do us all a lot of good. |
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| I wonder, though, how many of the Member States, old and new, will overcome their internal pettifogging and set as the sovereign objective the smooth functioning and efficiency of the Europe of the 27 Member States. |
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| Become free people, not pettifogging lawyers. |
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| Producers in these and other New World countries are not bound by pettifogging bureaucracy that tells them which grapes to grow where and then how to make the wines. |
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| He grew up on the American continent and finally vanished from the pettifogging world of his black and white clan the moment he reached adulthood. |
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