"Our politics are not dictated by such petty considerations."

What you have, unfortunately, is petty electoral considerations and small-mindedness masquerading under his favorite term, "prudence."

They hold that this dialogue takes place beyond such petty considerations.

Even if you were, this has transcended such petty considerations.

Our ruin musters against us while we debate petty considerations.

Scholarship is the one field supposedly insulated from petty personal considerations of status, income level and the animal pleasures of dominating one's fellows.

I will leave out of all this the petty consideration that we're talkin' about the life of a teenage girl.

Perhaps he could do the same for New York-not that such petty considerations are worthy of this exercise.

We do not look for pretexts to justify a policy that is constant, clear and based on principles, not petty considerations.

Legal or illegal are petty considerations that have never bothered him.