The wounds from the terrorist attacks of Sept . 11 are too raw, and the importance of this inquiry too great, to settle for ethical pettifoggery.
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First, the Republicans challenged absentee ballots from Democratic strongholds with pettifoggery like objecting to ballots on which voters wrote down Brooklyn instead of Kings as their county of residence.
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The lawyers and political advisers who have so poorly served Clinton must give up the self-defeating idea that they can win this case through parliamentary maneuvering and legal pettifoggery.
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Although the details may be somewhat subject to pettifoggery, the basic premise that content should be based on reliable sources instead of original research is one that both sides agree upon.
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Indeed, in many respects Byrd represents everything that is worst about the Senate : its invitations to procedural pettifoggery; its tendency to let majority rule be thwarted by the whims of partisan minorities; its unbearable pomposity.
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:: : : : : The reformatting of others'comments was innocuous but unnecessary pettifoggery because Baseball Bugs simply added an informed observation on the subject of scientific laws that I mentioned, but SemanticMantis did not.
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And they had good cause to wonder, for Albert and George had summoned lawyers from all across the nation to come to the land of oranges and bathing costumes, to wage their war of pettifoggery in the courts.
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The Council pointed to another opinion, " Kale v . Obuchowski ", which derided a lawyer's argument as " pettifoggery " and concluded that the appeal was " frivolous, doomed and sanctionable ".
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"You " means the MTA . What comes through time and again is a flood of anger against transit bosses, who are blamed for work rules, disciplinary codes and bottom-line pettifoggery that the drivers say demeans them.
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One does not necessarily have to have experienced the pettifoggeries of academe to fully enjoy " Kraven Images, " although it would help; scheming and self-aggrandizing can be found wherever money is not an issue but status and power are.
