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...She is forced to take a post at a small probate firm, and the petty office politics, strange clients, and Helen’s own — often clumsy — interactions are, genuinely, laugh-out loud funny....
...Government defends care homes approach | Speaking in the House of Commons, care minister Helen Whately, who held the same position during the first 18 months of the pandemic, said “the importance of testing...
...Why the bitterness, the petty resentments? Why suggest the back catalogue is redundant, then play it with gusto? Why a tiny venue in a major city?...
...“Right, you crack on with the parklets,” Helen Ball, the council’s clerk or chief executive, concludes breezily, “and I’ll sort the trees out.”...
...Helen, the cause of all this bloodshed, has now been returned to her husband Menelaus, who takes his revenge on her nightly....
...“This is simply petty,” Tobias Ellwood, Tory chair of the Commons defence committee, said on Twitter on Thursday....
...But Scott Petty, chief technology officer of telecoms company Vodafone UK, warned in the Financial Times on Tuesday that the UK’s hopes of leading the world in 5G technology would be dealt a terminal blow...
...A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions....
...Almost half of prisoners reoffend within a year of release, rising to nearly two-thirds for petty offenders serving sentences of less than 12 months, according to the Prison Reform Trust, which puts the...
...[The bully] engages you in petty disputes. When you are doing that, you’re not doing anything interesting or useful.”...
...Strong arguments are occasionally weakened by glibness: “A politician in a suit can do far more harm than any street gang, drug dealer or petty thief.”...
...She quotes Yuly Martov, a Marxist colleague with whom he fell out, as accusing Lenin in 1904 of “petty, at times senseless, personal malice, amazing narcissism [and] blind, deaf, unfeeling fury”....
...Next came Helen Mirren, 69 years young and resplendent as the newly signed face of French beauty behemoth L’Oréal....
...Politicians are keen to take the credit for creating safer cities, and police claim their zero-tolerance strategies are immobilising petty criminals before their offences escalate....
...The performances are raw and intense, none more so than that of Louise Brealey, who plays three women: the crazed Cassandra, the bereaved wife and mother, Andromache, and the seductress, Helen....
...Like many westerners, I thought drinking was one of the primary reasons for cruising, but as Helen Wang, of MSC Mediterranean cruises in Shanghai, says, “Chinese people don’t have a ‘bar culture’.”...
...At times the orchestra exaggerated the moods of the songs: the petty histrionics of “Save It For Someone Who Cares” were plumped into full-scale Opéra Bouffe....
...The criminals, attracted by the ease with which stolen copper can be exchanged for cash, range from petty thieves to organised groups....
...Gangs and petty thieves are becoming increasingly brazen after benchmark copper prices rose 38 per cent in the past two years and iron ore, the main ingredient of steel, more than doubled in price over the...
...The result of this jostling has been petty arguments played out using the instruments of state, in which officials and bystanders end up being caught in the crossfire....
...from a nearby high-Anglican boarding school went there on days off, taking our perishable religiosity – like that of Catholic Pinkie and his Rose – to a place where you could smell the chancers and the petty...
...Dario is an aspiring footballer, Dinis a motorbike courier sliding into petty crime, Dinho a petrol station attendant with God hang-ups....
...It is also over-endowed with point-scoring in petty internal rows. But the book seldom flags, not least because of the punch of his prose....
...Afolabi; and London-based Helen Oyeyemi. And then there is Helon Habila, arguably their leading player....
...“Relations weren’t brilliant before and they are not brilliant now,” says one pro-Hoon Foreign Office insider who accuses Beckett of acting in a “very petty” way....
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