Are they reporting on matters of interest to the U.S. government or are they too busy filing reports on trivial developments?
The report added a small proportion of the audience felt that, at times, 5 live had too much focus on trivial or less serious issues.
Now, look, I have a reputation for giving cable a hard time, so let's pick on Politico for a while. (Laughter.) You know, people attack Politico for putting a new focus on trivial issues, political fodder, gossip sheet.
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Given the limited amount of evidence-gathering, the judge said, the court could abandon the usual deference given to settlements reached in arms-length negotiations. (Judges have their own conflict here: a settlement gets the litigation out of their court, while challenging it guarantees more time wasted on a trivial matter).
On the other hand a practical reactor can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It requires an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of its engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated.
We will change the law that allows councils to snoop on people for trivial matters.
Oh Se-hoon had called a referendum on the seemingly trivial issue of whether free school lunches should be provided to all children, or only to poor ones.
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Right now the focus is on humidity, temperature and barometric pressure, though other environmental variables would be relatively trivial to tack on.
While Fry briefly dropped his jovial persona to concentrate on more serious matters, it was left to Tarantino and Hathaway to contemplate the trivial (or not so trivial, depending on your point of view).
If supporting two separate networks imposed trivial costs on the telcos, then consumers would be held harmless.
So video blogging could mean trivial reflections on what you had for breakfast, but it could also mean doing slick, highly produced hour-long training videos.
Tim Worstall, a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, dismissed the quantity of electricity being used for mining as "trivial" on the website Forbes.
People think of apps as trivial little squares on our smartphones, but they start to feel far more serious and rich when you view them with a Web mentality.
Reducing the number of IRS bureaucrats by 90 percent, from about 100, 000 to 10, 000, for instance, surely would be a net loss to the government since the money saved on IRS compensation would be trivial compared to the loss of tax revenue.
It started over something trivial and then moved on to family members.
The amounts they raise on global capital markets are pretty trivial: less than 2% of South Korean and Singaporean government debt is denominated in foreign currency, for example.
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While managing a photo album might sound a bit trivial, similar technology lives on the industrial side.
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The Ig Nobel Awards, an American parody of the prestigious Nobel Prizes, have been around since 1991 and recognise annually research and studies that on the surface seem humorous and perhaps trivial, but contain the essence of real discovery.
One was about how trivial Trump's decisions on "The Apprentice" were when compared with that of the POTUS. The second ridiculed Trump for what he would allegedly do to the White House if he won: turn it into a garish-looking hotel and spa.
Obviously, most thought goes into the questions and the answers, but apparently trivial issues like location can take on huge significance.
The new system will, however, be ideally suited for spotting tourists or students who overstay on their visas, but that is a trivial issue.
Early Day Motions in the UK Parliament can be used for many things, some of them trivial, but many of them taking on board serious subjects.
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The planned cuts, the organisation says, would actually produce only trivial decreases in America's spending on its farmers, and would be little help to farmers in the developing world.
Although the computations involved are not trivial (they take about ten hours on a relatively powerful cluster of four Linux workstations) the limiting factor is getting sufficiently-high-resolution digital scans of paintings from museums.
He went on to give a kind of an example of how trivial it is.
This might seem fairly trivial but it could have some interesting run on effects.
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Other recent business school research can, on the face of it, appear a bit more trivial, but is just as important in its way.
Then there was a silence, and I wondered whether I should make some trivial remark about the island or about holidays or some other almost equally trivial remark about the activities we had observed on the beach.
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