Media pundits and politicians point to trivial decreases in the headline unemployment rate as evidence of economic recovery. |
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There are several lessons to be learned from this incident, some trivial, some quite important. |
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Very often qualitative studies seem to be full of apparently trivial details. |
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But, of course, the fact is that offences range from the trivial to the serious. |
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And the pressure to conform to all these trivial values is absolutely enormous. |
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The answers might be of trivial importance now, but someday it could be lifesaving. |
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Even if the case is of very little importance, involving trivial loss, seeking truth from facts shall always be the norm for action. |
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He handed out yellow cards for trivial offences, but ignored several dangerous tackles. |
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This lack of context is unfortunate, given the amount of space devoted to a plethora of more peripheral or trivial details. |
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It does not matter that the offences are trivial or made under the immunity perhaps conferred by the Senate in the course of an inquiry. |
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But it is sad that the media has been highlighting trivial events while ignoring important health issues. |
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That suggests the possibility of anything but a trivial role for land value taxation in many of the rich countries. |
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She had a light touch and a way of painting a portrait through a million trivial details that seems very contemporary. |
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Sorting out the important from the trivial adds to good management of matters. |
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A plethora of issues, both important as well as trivial, have had an effect on the public opinion. |
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A few hecklers managed to get in during this period but they were quite trivial. |
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Mary is an amiable, conventional, and trivial young woman who gets married. |
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She began to yell at Ryan for some trivial thing, and he tuned it out as he held his daughter on his lap. |
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These punishments were usually for trivial offences such as dirty boots, brasses, or badly blancoed kit. |
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Ack, it sounds so silly and trivial now, but I was literally shaking with rage at the time. |
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It's a deeply silly and trivial entertainment cheerfully devoid of any nutritional or calorific value whatever. |
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The experiments were trivial, downright silly you may say, but the theoretical implications may be profound. |
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You think it's a silly and trivial innovation, well maybe, but who knows where it might lead. |
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That might sound unnecessarily silly or trivial, but it's been a serious point of contention. |
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But it's not automatically rendered trivial and silly, just because it's about a household animal. |
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And while the occasional privacy violation seems trivial, perhaps even silly to some readers, these abuses really do add up over time. |
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This made him realize how trivial were the pleasures with which his father had attempted to blinker him. |
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I am suggesting that we are wrong to dismiss their motivations and reasoning out of hand as trivial and aberrant. |
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Later, back in the motorhome, my erratic driving and occasional tussle with second gear seemed positively trivial. |
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It overlooks the mundane reality of everyday policing, which is often boring, messy, petty, trivial and venal. |
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We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point. |
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The issue of motorists being impounded by road traffic officers over trivial charges has left pain in lots of people, deep as the unfathomed sea. |
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A woman writer who evokes an intensely personal landscape still finds she is dismissed as slight, precious, trivial. |
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He is too light, too slight, too trivial, a figure with insufficient gravity. |
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That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant. |
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The idea that we are up against unknown unknowns if taken literally is trivial. |
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There was even a lineup at the counter for the small, trivial things like coffee. |
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It's a small problem affecting a trivial number of people who effectively choose to be affected. |
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I shall narrate a trivial incident which presaged the shape of things to come. |
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This variation is not trivial functionally, because these sensory hairs help the insect navigate through the air. |
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The expansion of helium into a vacuum corresponds to a significant change in entropy but to a trivial change in energy. |
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Nearly all the remaining complaints were trivial, baseless or impossibly vague. |
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In the light of that, my little niggles and the odd feelings of unhappiness seem pretty trivial. |
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Disabling them is fundamentally different from protesting in the streets or even the trivial offence of spray-painting graffiti on signage. |
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My trivial career concerns are nothing compared to the what she and Zach live through every day. |
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The rise of essentially trivial pastimes should not call forth a moral panic. |
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A trivial reason explaining how both step sizes can be the same, is that the labeled calmodulin is bound to the catalytic domain. |
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But the notion of a film or TV show based on a Facebook status update is not necessarily a trivial or inane one. |
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In it, I correct him about a 1964 Marvel oddment and prove that there's nothing too trivial for some of us comic buffs. |
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The blue bill shows how the authorities used concessions on trivial matters to conceal onslaughts on key issues. |
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These catenoids are the first explicitly known discrete minimal surfaces besides the trivial plane. |
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The ostensible cause of the conflict was a trivial argument between a public transportation driver and a passenger of different faiths. |
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But that is trivial compared to some of the other claims being made during the current outpouring of drivel. |
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He has been getting a lot more aggressive recently over such trivial things as the housework and his dinner. |
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Frankly, I hope that he desists from knocking on my door at seven in the morning with some trivial problem, but I am not over-optimistic. |
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This simple message cuts through the trivial election chatter of the main parties that is boring everyone senseless. |
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Disappointed and hurt over something trivial, I had engaged God in a mini tug-of-war, refining my rebuttals and surrebuttals in the process. |
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The battles about drivers or airline passengers using mobiles are not trivial. |
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Although this example is itself trivial, jMax is capable of far more complex synthesis patches. |
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His ambition fueled him onward, rendering him immune to pain or trivial distractions. |
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And we would also see trivial or mischievous claims being pursued, under the cloak of anonymity. |
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Anyhow, a pretty trivial post, but if you managed to read this far you must really like my writing cause I honestly think I'm very idle. |
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The New Yorker is reportedly filled to the brim with fact checkers, whose sole job is to verify every single fact in a story, however trivial. |
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But why, you may ask, has this apparently trivial factoid ruffled the feathers of the good burghers of Oslo? |
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The purpose of all of this is to catch them in some misstatement, no matter how trivial, which can then be labeled as false or even perjurious. |
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The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial. |
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It is perhaps because these matters are so petty and trivial in appearance that they afford so excellent a training. |
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Aren't we all, too much into trivial matters and petty thinking and driven by insatiable greed? |
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Then there are actors who are haunted by what they perceive as the trivial and inconsequential nature of their work. |
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If nothing else, those with purple feelers are less likely to want to be out in freezing weather, to pick a trivial example. |
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As it is, relics and indulgences seem to be trivial grounds for the radical actions that follow. |
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Unless a product is inexpensive or trivial, brand awareness alone will not be enough to drive you to an actual purchase. |
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The most careless and trivial movements were capable of transmitting the rudest and most insolent messages. |
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Some people with obstructing lesions complain intensely about trivial bloating while others scarcely notice extreme bloating. |
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Nearly all of the thefts have been trivial, but the consecutiveness of the attempts at burglary has put the residents on the alert. |
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The capacity of trivial events to convulse the media and political commentators never ceases to amaze. |
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His fuss over something possibly quite trivial ruined her skim-milk flat white. |
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These are not trivial errors on your part, they reveal a fundamental flaw in your character. |
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The idea was that this trivial name would be easy to. remember and would trigger the memory of the plant's 'correct' polynomial name. |
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The projects themselves were trivial, closer to a test contrived by a college fraternity than a business school, and that was the point. |
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I know it is trivial, but you don't often get to eavesdrop on the private conversations of US presidents. |
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He prostrated himself, but his trivial performance only brought on more tears and anger. |
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This warning was given after it was demonstrated that obtaining a licence in someone else's name was a trivial task. |
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As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes. |
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We have cars or public transportation to take us wherever we want to go for a trivial sum. |
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But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art. |
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His attitude has been to dilly-dally and turn down proposals on firms on trivial grounds. |
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Sometimes we write on what seems like a relatively trivial theme, and the mailbox groans with correspondence. |
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In general, therefore, a tenant will pay some rent to his landlord, although in the case of ground rent it may be a trivial sum of money. |
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Even for trivial requests like days off, my manager thought that it was his job to approve or disapprove the request. |
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As a young Scot, I would have to put aside trivial matters such as not liking the taste of alcohol, and learn to love a guid drink. |
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Infecting an average Windows machine is fairly trivial, as most people have ActiveX and Java enabled. |
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Bad personal sites bore us by telling us about trivial events and casual encounters about which we have no reason to care. |
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American pop culture is filled with remnants of television series whose impact was little more than diversionary and trivial. |
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Tourism at its best is an attempt, an essay, and not all essays are trivial. |
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The drab life of the draper's shop, its trivial incidents, are made interesting and important. |
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I have learned to live for the moment from all this and I have learned that nothing is trivial, nothing should be taken for granted. |
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Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful. |
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The first topology is a trivial one, just stating the genes are allelically identical. |
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In group theory one of the topics he studied was that of groups with only trivial automorphisms. |
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They seem to be trivial checks, but it is because of their triviality that they are often ignored. |
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The Levinson system of nomenclature was proposed originally for rare-earth minerals in order to avoid a proliferation of trivial names. |
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The trivial name enormis must be a joke as the holotype is only 23 mm in length! |
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The trivial name nudus refers to the lack of cirri on the column of this new species of Camptocrinus. |
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The trivial name alludes to the row of metal spines on the third pereiopod which distinguishes this species from other members of the genus. |
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Many people will benefit from this, yet still, there are some who obstruct and complain about the smallest trivial detail. |
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When population geneticists think of stasis at all, they usually regard it as an almost trivial consequence of stabilizing selection. |
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That is important now, because referees are liable to book players for trivial things. |
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You'd swear they had the weight of the world on their shoulders, rather, in many cases the relatively trivial trials of a town council. |
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He was well-spoken when talking about a subject that appealed to him, but when answering questions he was short, vague and trivial. |
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Wherever there is some advantage to be gained, be it ever so trivial, quarrels are the order of the day. |
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But after the McLeish affair, no matter is too trivial to be taken seriously. |
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It is entertaining to read but seems rather trivial in comparison with its predecessor. |
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Anxieties regarding respectability were often concealed by seemingly trivial complaints over children, gardens or noise. |
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Other than in the most trivial sense that identical twins look more alike than most people, this is simply false. |
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Those of us who self-identify as being part of the left are constantly battling with the seemingly trivial issue of political labels. |
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I think is a trivial assertion and it certainly not anything you should adjust your science to, to make allowance for. |
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I was laughing to myself about our attempts to be the alpha male over something so trivial. |
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It takes about 8 minutes for that trip, so the short, final hop from the Moon to the Earth is trivial by comparison. |
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This text is less trivial than it appears, and all Clair's ambivalence is revealed in a minor key. |
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You never know when something will pay off, and for the trivial amounts of money it costs, the returns are enormous. |
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Neighbours go to law, and even shoot each other, over the most trivial boundary disputes. |
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Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back. |
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I remember I was pretty annoyed with my brother who shared the room with me, over some trivial disagreement. |
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Looking back at my junior high years, most of the things that felt like a big deal at the time seem trivial in retrospect. |
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All of that is trivial, compared to the yawning black hole of unfunded pension liabilities. |
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And it may seem trivial compared to some of the life-threatening illnesses we could develop. |
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Few people would go to excess if they were not unwholesomely over-excited about their trivial apishness. |
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Other people may think that our habits of daily living are trivial and stupid, but to us they concern surviving as a person. |
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However the price that had to be paid, was a strict and oppressive rule that controlled even the most trivial things of everyday's life. |
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Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things. |
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There seems to be some kind of law that requires presidential campaigns to become asymptotically more trivial as election day approaches. |
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They start quarrelling on trivial matters, which assume serious dimensions by the day. |
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Patients with a normal conscious level, no signs of external injury, and a history of a trivial blow to the head can be discharged. |
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My own dreams seemed trivial before this tapestry of family plans and lifelong ambitions and children's college funds. |
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Inconsequential as they sound, these trivial dilemmas and flaws have the effect of making the cast of characters very human. |
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From this world we must depart to seek the world of air, the world of daily cares, great and trivial concerns. |
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Improved understanding of gastropod phylogenetics goes far beyond satisfying the trivial curiosities of malacologists. |
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When two or more people are living under the same roof these somewhat trivial things can quickly turn into issues of mammoth importance. |
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It was a new form of game show and people were on the edge of their seats, even if it seemed trivial. |
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Just in case I still thought this a trivial trend, Komlos put a final bar graph in front of me. |
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Such trivial examples are amplified a thousandfold when it comes to more complex physical characteristics. |
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The world of the vital has escaped our fiction, to be replaced by the world of the trivial and self-involved. |
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This enormous power to subject the American public to serial triviality is far from trivial. |
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On the other hand, information is preserved in topologically trivial metrics. |
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These trivial disputes mingled with hatred and love can become especially complex, requiring a lot of patience. |
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All blunt orbital trauma should be taken seriously even when an injury is apparently trivial. |
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It has the trivial name from its long binate leaflets, resembling ass's ears. |
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Newspapers always mix the trivial with the important, for the very good reason that trivia can be entertaining. |
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Harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate. |
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My interest is no mere trivial and reactionary antiquarianism. |
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The most riveting stories so far deal with trivial matters that sound like deleted scenes from a George Costanza fever dream. |
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Some of these items are trivial or irrelevant, but many are on the mark. |
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The possible risk being that she schtums and won't tell me the truth or just laughs in my face when I bring it up because it's apparently trivial. |
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Anyway, enough of the justification of why a supposedly logical and rational person such as myself could take interest in something as supposedly trivial as astrology. |
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It is a particularly sensitive time for advertising, an industry so inherently trivial that it is wide open to accusations of insensitivity and crassness. |
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A variation of 0.2 degrees seems trivial and almost silly to worry about. |
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Of course, once you've chopped your premiums, what could happen is that the money you've saved gets absorbed into your household expenses, or splurged on trivial spending. |
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Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life. |
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And more trivial modifications like altering bodily odors and promoting a healthy lifestyle. |
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For a decade or more we have wasted far too much time and energy dwelling on relatively trivial fears, whether about the chemicals in our coffee or economy-class syndrome. |
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All that weighed upon his mind suddenly grew dim and trivial. |
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What is more shameful is what they are covering, essentially human-interest stories, with long stretches of valuable airtime wasted with bloviation on trivial legal maneuvers. |
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He recalls a day when they argued over a trivial script detail. |
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Actual bodily harm is any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health and so called comfort of the victim and must be more than merely trivial or transient. |
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The apparently inane becomes loaded with import, the trivial can suddenly become significant, while the grand gestures are often revealed as essentially meaningless. |
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Another brave step, though it might seem very trivial is that he has avoided digressing from the singular plot by not invoking songs and other kitsch trappings. |
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Without vision, we're susceptible to trivial distractions which result in disunity, dilution of the truth, unfruitfulness and spiritual aimlessness. |
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Inherited verbal or other social responses are fragmentary and trivial. |
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Even fewer thought it would erupt over an issue so seemingly trivial. |
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They set out to accumulate a lot of chips, but this is pointless as the increase in chips in this situation is of trivial value as the blinds and antes go up. |
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In what became Inner London, stipendiaries did all the work in their own court-houses, lay magistrates sitting in separate courthouses dealing only with trivial matters. |
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The difference between the two choices on the mandated, high-stakes state test was trivial. |
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The big and trivial news rises to the top of the Twitterverse. |
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These circles, the critics say, are more like spirals that turn ever more tightly upon a cultural gyre of trivial texts and even more trivial analyses of those texts. |
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Nor can we dismiss as trivial the part that gastronomy and other social conventions associated with feasting play in the civilizing of the human animal. |
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A self-confessed appalling delegator, he wanted to run the club as a dictatorship of sorts, his final say status extending to even the most trivial aspects. |
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To be honest it's a trivial matter and I have bigger fish to fry. |
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There's a tale in which those who choose to go about armed wear a brassard signifying the fact, and legal gunfights may break out at any time over matters large or trivial. |
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By the vigor of its voice his Diary awakens us to the value of daily experience, taken as it comes, trivial or momentous, troubling or enjoyable, all together. |
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Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial. |
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Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world. |
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That's trivial to giants but a major incentive for small fry. |
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity. |
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Next in complexity to the trivial ones are the mazes represented by trees. |
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We have not proven that by any means, and it is not a trivial assumption. |
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To our contemporary minds, that might seem a relatively trivial offense. |
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We've seem them fritter away hours of valuable time asking and answering trivial questions that could easily have been settled by a phone call or two. |
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Do you turn on the TV and see ads for whitening toothpaste and fluffy toilet paper, and think, everything here is so trivial here? |
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More members of the Twitterverse are coopting the hashtag and attaching it to concerns that seem relatively trivial. |
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No matter how stupid a question or trivial an issue, the denial of full access to all files, working papers, memos, personal notes and so on will be treated as a cover-up. |
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But the ability to pull shiny metal out of the ground is trivial compared to the power of a well-fed army. |
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The generic name is taken from the trivial name of Xanthilites verrucoides in reference to the wart-like appearance of the ornamentation of the two species in this genus. |
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A man is sometimes very excitable and prone to anger for trivial reasons. |
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We've lost our lie-ins, which seems trivial but makes a big difference. |
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These experiments varied in their subject area, and were both important in some cases and trivial in others. |
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The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon, arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion. |
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They are similar to nominal damages awards, as they are given when the plaintiff's suit is trivial, used only to settle a point of honour or law. |
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It is not a trivial distinction since any shift in the burden of proof is a significant change which undermines the safeguard for the citizen. |
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There was much ephemeral, a certain amount purely local, and something occasionally trivial in them. |
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Right-minded people do not throw away their lives because trivial insults occur. |
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Are they so closed-minded as to let something so trivial influence their decision on the most important referendum this country has faced? |
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But it isn't true that this is simply trivial for all but the superrich. |
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Civilian hostages would be taken, and the death penalty immediately imposed for even the most trivial acts of resistance. |
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The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial. |
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The longue duree of river and rocks throws into relief the trivial pursuits of the dying man whose last thoughts are of a briefer time span. |
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In all his biographies he insisted on including what others would have considered trivial details to fully describe the lives of his subjects. |
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The essay criticised the trivial and ridiculous plots of contemporary fiction by women. |
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This is Ampere's modified law in differential equations form up to a trivial rearrangement. |
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Discipline in the armed forces was harsh, and the lash was used to punish even trivial offences, nor was it applied sparingly. |
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Alternatively, it can mean verse which has a monotonous rhythm, easy rhyme, and cheap or trivial meaning. |
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After all, we're all sick of seeing players sent off for trivial misdemeanours, but rules are made to be followed. |
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Angiocardiography revealed mild mitral regurgitation, trivial tricuspid regurgitation, and no aortic regurgitation. |
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That may seem like a trivial point, but it is not universally agreed on. |
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Is it really a trivial thing to not offer a desired benefit to employees? |
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There are 31 non-isomorphic configurations and this puzzle is the first found of type whose automorphism group is trivial. |
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This results in applications that are easier to develop and maintain, and makes repartitioning and migrating functions between the cores trivial. |
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Barking instructions like a teacher who can't command his class, Deadman appeared determined to make issues out of any trivial incident. |
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It sounds trivial, but angry Westminster workers are in a froth over the mess made of their macchiatos. |
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Isaac alleges that the 20 points identified by Gensler are trivial, dependencies or vacuous without giving a rationale. |
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This is a sum of money which is trivial in relation to the local government budget and disappearingly small in relation to the nation's finances. |
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Within the context of the minor premise that all human beings are entitled to human rights, this is no trivial matter. |
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The walking habits of a lone Mormon cricket or grasshopper might seem trivial. |
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But some of them are multiplying fast, and those dismissed as trivial today, because they only infest a few road verges, may well turn into triffids tomorrow. |
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He looked around at the unlit light fixtures and the crown molding that he liked so much when they moved in, but now these trivial details were starting to unmove him. |
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The trivial absolute value gives rise to the discrete metric. |
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All fiber bundles in the preceding result may or may not be trivial. |
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As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour. |
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The idea was greeted with enthusiasm by almost everyone except Morris, who was by now involved with promoting socialism and thought Ashbee's scheme trivial. |
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From model-theoretic point of view the category of representations is a multisorted structure which we prove to be superstable with pregeometry of trivial type. |
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Perhaps she has to buy a new stairgate, fireguard, or fit in a lamp. This may be a big dip in her purse, but in this financial comparison it is trivial. |
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Lorenz named it butterfly effect in this means that if a butterfly flaps in Pecan, from wings motion trivial effect may be caused a storm in NewYork. |
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In his view, complaints were dealt with in a haphazard manner, the GMC caused distress to doctors over trivial complaints while tolerating poor practice in other cases. |
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In Kosovo an increasingly poisonous atmosphere between Serbs and Albanians led to wild rumors being spread and otherwise trivial incidents being blown out of proportion. |
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That may be meant to suggest another problem entirely, Jake's agenbite of inwit, but it's less trivial than it seems, part of what Julius calls the aesthetics of ugliness. |
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Alternately, the variation in motor neuron number may be trivial and have little functional impact, because crustacean muscles generally have sparse polyneuronal innervation. |
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The GPL and GPL FAQ don't say that applying a copyright and license to Public Domain works after a trivial modification is copyfraud either, but it is. |
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It isn't trivial to find a decision-theoretic foundation for game theory in which an agent's coplayers are a non-distinguished part of the agent's environment. |
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It is generally believed that converting written pitch to sounding pitch in conventional Western music notation is always straightforward, if not trivial. |
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I have not included these in the study, because they are much more frequent and widespread than those cases with a single stamen or carpel, and are thus too trivial. |
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Probabilistically Checkable Proofs encapsulate the striking idea that verification of proofs becomes nearly trivial if one is willing to use randomness. |
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There is nothing trivial about explanations that illuminate the way basic biological dispositions arborize into our most complex and refined cultural practices. |
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We hypothesize that females required these long feeding periods to meet the nutritional demands of ovogenesis and that these demands were not trivial. |
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This might appear trivial but it can be quite profitable,' said Stephen, from Rover Way, Splott, Cardiff, who communicates by writing pad and e-mail. |
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