pettifogging in a sentence

Examples

1. The judge, Eugene H . Nickerson, had brushed aside Rosario's contention by calling it " more a piece of pettifogging than a serious contention ."
2. The new lobbying job for the 9 / 11 commission members will be difficult, as the pettifogging evasions of House chairmen made clear in the final fight over the intelligence bill.
3. But in an opinion written by Judge Rosemary S . Pooler, the court said Nickerson " dismissed too quickly under the heading of ` pettifogging "'the immunity claim.
4. We must therefore assume that his decision to share a bit of midweek pettifogging with us last Tuesday is linked to the Raiders'difficult season, and their even more difficult ticket-selling.
5. I still think Jay is right on the matter of principle; I just wish he'd apply this principle  here and elsewhere  in a meaningful as opposed to tactical and pettifogging way.
6. But if all you do is complain that the article is not neutral, that's not collaboration-that's pettifogging . talk ) 19 : 40, 29 June 2012 ( UTC)
7. I'm gently worried that the desire to force people to log in is yet another example of the pettifogging overarching bureaucracy that engulfs WP . talk ) 11 : 08, 30 October 2009 ( UTC)
8. In some countries, it is under the thumb of the executive; in many it is short of cash; almost everywhere it is cocooned in a pettifogging legalism that coexists with widespread violence, corruption and contempt for law.
9. And his pettifogging defense of his in-office fund raising calls on the grounds that no " controlling legal authority " _ vis-a-vis, a judge _ had ruled on exactly how the law applied.
10. I knew that in defending a Jewish person, there was the strong likelihood that someone out there who enjoys pettifogging might slip into that faulty syllogism which runs :'Ah, Nishidani spoke about ( on behalf of ) Jews.