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Hong Kong's regulators are expending ever greater efforts to crack down on ever paltrier financial crimes such as insider trading and market manipulation.

Hong Kong's Regulatory Misdirection 2010

If they have to spend weeks or months negotiating the bureaucracy of enforcement, the result will not be the enjoyment of their rights — it is too late for that — but a paltrier sort of compensation.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

If they have to spend weeks or months negotiating the bureaucracy of enforcement, the result will not be the enjoyment of their rights — it is too late for that — but a paltrier sort of compensation.

The problem with Brown's latest Big Idea 2009

And I wonder also whether a paltrier bargain was ever made in the whole history of political alliances.

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

His classical treatment of the subject is worth serious reference; for it should be realised that Lincoln, who had both to learn his new trade of statecraft and to exercise it in a terrible emergency, did so with a large part of each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much paltrier kind.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

Ah! what a contrast there is between the languid way in which Christian men pursue what the Bible designates their 'calling' and that in which men with far paltrier aims pursue theirs!

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868

If one of the meanest of human conditions is conscious heroism, paltrier yet is heroism before the fact, incapable of self realization!

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

Yet it is none the less true that the portion of Italy unequivocally Austrian is better governed and enjoys, not more Liberty, for there is none in either, but a milder form of Slavery, than that which prevails in Naples, Rome, Tuscany, and the paltrier native despotisms.

Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Horace Greeley 1841

Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838