It is one that includes lower taxes, less pettifogging regulation and freer trade.
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But his blunt speech and impatience with pettifogging bureaucrats have won over many in Jakarta.
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" Merriam-Webster defines pettifogging as "worrying too much about details that are minor or not important.
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For now, we will likely see more pettifogging before what seems more and more likely -- an acquittal.
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" During his remarks, the chief justice recalled the impeachment trial of Judge Charles Swayne and a debate over the word "pettifogging.
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Where the British see pettifogging bureaucracy harming business, the French see hated liberalization measures that will transform France into a United States en miniature.
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Witness, too, the recent pettifogging political battle in Germany over whether a migration minister was right to leave the word "Christmas" off her Christmas card.
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He insists that the EU is holding back British companies; free Britannia from those pettifogging rules and she will conquer the markets of the east.
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In the 1905 Swain trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word pettifogging, and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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Like most supporters of his country's withdrawal from the bloc, he wants Britain to strike out on its own, a fully sovereign state unshackled from Europe's pettifogging rules and the Continent's overweening state.
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Summoned before a parliamentary committee on defence, India's service chiefs revealed not only dire shortfalls in equipment and investment, but mounting frustration with a pettifogging civilian defence bureaucracy and the government's penny-pinching ways.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Chief Justice Roberts said.
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The court's majority deployed pettifogging legalism, giving more value to secondary regulation than to Mr Guzmán's constitutional right to run and the right of the people to choose whomever they please—the essence of democracy.
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LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment trial of President Trump "In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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The European debate Mr Macron was supposed to kick-start is already bogged down in the sort of pettifogging technicalities he detests, on matters like the appropriate level of non-performing loans on the balance-sheets of euro-zone banks.
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She's a tour de force of avant-garde fashion, a tornado stomping through the titular dusty town in towering Givenchy heels and black and white Alexander McQueen dresses, turning words like "baby" and "pettifogging" into a phenomenon as beguiling as her wardrobe.
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At the end of the little unpleasantness that ensued, General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington and Americans were free of our pettifogging rapacity and incompetent interference, and able to turn toward the construction of a new polity, founded upon a new Constitution.
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After representatives for Democrats and President Trump exchanged some heated words — the kind of stuff you might hear in the House of Representatives but less commonly in the austere Senate — Roberts interjected to remind them that in the Senate, pettifogging (quibbling over small points) is unwelcome.
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It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away.
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He acquired the deprecatory nickname "Germanenbernhard", which "hints at his character as a pettifogging and self-opinionated polemicist".Junginger, "Introduction", p. 51. Kummer's academic career was retarded by a conflict with Otto Höfler which became part of the conflict between the Ahnenerbe and the Amt Rosenberg, with which Kummer was affiliated.Heinrich, p. 254.
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Pop TV. But on rare occasions, Moira lets the ego and bluster fade – displaying both a tenderness toward her children and a distinct despair over the loss of her former life. To facilitate her over-the-top persona, Moira utilizes an indistinguishable accent and frequently peppers her vocabulary with arcane words like "frippet" and "pettifogging". As The Atlantic's Amanda Walsh notes, she also "adopts an affectation that transforms monosyllabic and disyllabic words into something simultaneously lofty and ridiculous". O'Hara stated that her character's unique – what some have called Canadian dainty – accent is a kind of "souvenir" from Moira's world travels.
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Smoley occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in regard to the academic study of esotericism, pioneered by Antoine Faivre at the Sorbonne and developed by such figures as Wouter Hanegraaff, Joscelyn Godwin, Arthur Versluis, and Nicholas Goodrick- Clarke. On the one hand, Smoley has always shown high respect for the findings of academic scholarship in the field; on the other hand, he has also shown some concern that an overacademic approach will distort and devitalize the living esoteric tradition, of which he considers himself to be a part. In a 1993 editorial in Gnosis, he wrote: > Like Rappaccini's daughter, the professors' touch can prove poisonous. I > have a degree in philosophy myself, so I have firsthand experience of how > academic hairsplitting and pettifogging disputes over the meanings of words > have all but killed that discipline.
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Burrows and Wallace, p.447 Ironically, it was the landowners like Moore, who fought the grid most insistently, who made the most money from exploiting it. Edith Wharton bemoaned "...rectangular New York ... this cramped horizontal gridiron of a town without towers, porticoes, fountains or perspectives, hide-bound in its deadly uniformity of mean ugliness," while her friend Henry James wrote that: > New York pays the penalty of her primal topographic curse, her old > inconceivably bourgeois scheme of composition and distribution, the > uncollected labor of minds with no imagination of the future and blind > before the opportunity given them by their two magnificent water-fronts. > This original sin of the longitudinal avenues perpetually, yet meanly > intersected, and of the organized sacrifice of the indicated alternative, > the great perspectives from East to West, might still have earned > forgiveness by some occasional departure from its pettifogging consistency.
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Ambrose Bierce also reinterpreted the story in the "Old Saws with New Teeth" section of his Fantastic Fables (1899):Project Gutenberg e-book ::Two Thieves, having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder, went to law about it and continued the contest as long as either one could steal a dollar to bribe the judge. When they could give no more an Honest Man came along and by a single small payment obtained a judgment and took the Piano home, where his daughter used it to develop her biceps muscles, becoming a famous pugiliste. Bierce takes the hint for the conduct of his 'honest man' from Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop and others: translated into English with instructive applications (1722 and often reissued). The 'application' for the fable of "The Lion, the Bear and the Fox" reflects on the foolishness of applying to lawyers in disputes over property: 'When people go to law about an uncertain title, and have spent their whole estates in the contest, nothing is more common than for some little pettifogging attorney to step in, and secure it to himself.
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