(1) When compared to the whole federal budget, the money spent on welfare is trifling , especially when you look at other, truly wasteful federal budget items.

(2) The moral: trifling liaisons can become serious finance issues.

(3) Divorce proceedings also require full disclosure of all the financial affairs of both parties, no matter how trifling they may seem.

(4) As a general rule an injunction will be refused only where the interference with the claimant's right is trifling or slight.

(5) And, what's even more galling, we've been told that the sum involved is comparatively trifling , a drop in the ocean of the department's annual budget of u251cu00f6u251cu00aeu252cu255d41 billion.

(6) To found a national character has never been a trifling matter.

(7) The telescope makes claims for the internet look trifling .

(8) But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters.

(9) Set against estimates of the infrastructure needed to sustain GDP growth at about 8 per cent, the sum is trifling .

(10) Yet if the results of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510public consultationsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb are trifling , the effect on our political culture is insidious.

(11) What seems to many a trifling matter of wording could have profound consequences.

(12) You might think that these are mere trifling matters.

(13) It was something trifling ; in fact, I didn't even remember what triggered it.

(14) Why does this sort of trifling semantic difference matter?

(15) Puccini was expert not only at describing the trifling matters of daily life, but also at using various melodies to expose the distinctive personality of each character.

(16) The leading pair brushed off one another going around the turn but it was only a trifling matter.

(17) Let me denounce this piffling, trifling , self-satisfied world; these horse-hair seats; these coloured photographs of piers and parades.

(18) Because of their lack of self esteem and self-confidence, says Lucy, many self-harmers tend to have very extreme emotional reactions to things which to many people would seem trifling .

(19) With escalating club fees, trifling base salaries and percentages taken off credit card payments, that is an interesting question indeed.

(20) For those of a certain tribal cast of Irish-Australian mind, such questions of geography and chronology are trifling .