Примери за pernickety

• This is not a merely pernickety point.

• I cannot believe that it would do any harm to issuing houses, although there might be some pernickety, technically-minded accountants who would complain.

• Is it really necessary to become so pernickety in these matters as we have become in the past forty years?

• It was not because we were pernickety in any sense, but because we are seriously exercised about these matters.

• It may be argued that the railways should make this provision on every occasion; but people can be pernickety and difficult.

• Instead, we have had the bureaucratic nightmare of pervasive, pernickety controls over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products.

• When we get to that stage we are becoming pernickety and miserable.

• It seems to me that we are being unnecessarily pernickety on this point.

• This group of amendments is not at all pernickety.

• I think that possibly it is being a little pernickety, because that is known to every specialist in that particular group.

• The only thing that worries me is the fact that we may have been too pernickety in our reform.

• He is becoming constitutionally pernickety all of a sudden.

• It may be pernickety, it may be a scruple, it may be prudent.

• One need not be too pernickety of what is immediately relevant.

• I think that my fellow countrymen are being unusually pernickety tonight on what is relatively an unimportant matter.