Ms Rimington's is a catalogue of slights, frustrations and petty humiliations at the hands of men.
Two more immediate snags may also trip it up: fuzzy maths and petty partisanship.
Yet, time and again, we've let partisan and petty bickering stand in the way of progress.
The Southampton inquest heard how CPO McCoy, 37, and Petty Officer Christopher Brown, 36, were Donovan's intended targets.
It says that violent crime, per person, is below Lisbon's, and petty crime is lower than in Singapore.
The Founders, underneath the ambition and petty politics, had a purpose: To create a nation, then ensure its survival.
Author Miles Harvey's story focuses on one Gilbert Bland, a Vietnam veteran and petty crook turned Florida strip-mall antiques dealer.
Shortly afterwards, Nazi officers rounded up men and boys living in that neighbourhood including a number of Jews, anti-fascists and petty criminals.
Let it be said, hype and petty fraud take place everywhere.
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Casey Anthony was arrested three times between July 2008 and October 2008 on various charges ranging from forgery, fraudulent use of personal information, and petty theft.
The defendant was not quite like all the others, the hustlers and the hoodlums and the petty and not-so-petty criminals that throng courts the world over.
The race is likely to be tight between the two main parties, and mudslinging and petty sniping have characterized their bid to jockey for every possible advantage.
Although Gogol writes that "we have not taken a virtuous man as our hero, " he has made Chichikov, though vile and petty in so many ways, oddly sympathetic.
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Palin's record as a small-town mayor and then a state governor is full of the kinds of anecdotes and petty intrigues common to a lot of political careers.
Gulf society is now so heavily diluted with people from other cultures that some of Arabia's traditional virtues, including the relative absence of theft and petty crime, are being eroded.
They report feeling worn down from fighting back against the slights and petty exclusions that still exist in the darker corners of many organizations, even if they ultimately win those battles.
Set loose on a seemingly boundless field of possibility, they soon see that the transient, meaningless features of materialist living and petty competition impose their own painful constraints on achievement and satisfaction.
As for Mr Trojan, though untainted by the carelessness and petty scandals that dished the previous team of commissioners led by Jacques Santer last year, the collapse did happen on his watch.
Take its recent conduct in the case of Paul van Buitenen, an internal auditor who leaked documents to the European Parliament late last year showing mismanagement and petty corruption among some commissioners and their staff.
Though his dialogue, spoken with the charming hesitation of inexperienced improvisers, conveys the tensions of the postcollegiate proletariat caught between big dreams and petty realities, Swanberg most faithfully captures the sound of artistic creativity today in bursts of tapping on laptop keyboards.
Fortunately, the plight of his heroine is just about fraught enough to survive these contrivances, and it is fun to imagine French audiences, schooled in the glories of the period, watching the parade of squabbles, whispers, and petty suspicions that is staged by a skeptical director.
But instead of coming together to solve them, we've let partisanship and petty bickering stand in the way of progress. (Applause.) It's been Democrat versus Republican -- it's been Democrat versus Republican, it's been voucher versus public schools, it's been more money versus more reform.
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Headliners are Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the other major summer music festival in the U.S., has slotted Paul McCartney, Wilco and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as their headliners this year.
Donovan pleaded guilty to murder and to the attempted murder of Lt Cdr Christopher Hodge, 45, who he shot in the stomach, Petty Officer Christopher Brown, 36, and Chief Petty Officer David McCoy, 37.
Many Iranian mercantile corporations and even petty traders rely on goods flowing to and from the United Arab Emirates and other nations along the Persian Gulf.
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Known for hit singles including American Girl, Learning To Fly and Breakdown, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are due to kick off their US tour in Colorado on Wednesday night.
But perhaps it was simply that he wanted to appear presidential and above petty argument, but missed the mark by enough to seem disengaged and aloof.
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