But it is also used in some cases for rather trivial offences.

Violence against women, whatever form it takes, is not a trivial offence.

He has thrown her out of his house for some trivial offence.

Serious crimes are more likely to be reported than trivial offences.

He beat me on a number of occasions, often for some trivial offence.

This can nonetheless include a wide variety of trivial offences.

I also feel that marine pollution should no longer be treated as a trivial offence.

"The issue of trivial offences is being taken up by eurosceptics.

In the postponed final, John was sent off early in the game for what seemed a trivial offence.

They would order floggings for the most trivial offences.

Rachaela's mother had said this to Rachaela over more trivial offences.

It's a trivial offence, something tossed to the reviewers.

Her initial caretaker was an older woman who used to whip the child as a punishment for such trivial offences.

The punishment for trivial offences could go well beyond the magistrate's ticking-off or the nominal fine.

Stealing bycycles and 'rustling pigs' may be trivial offences, but rape is not.

Police arrested fans for trivial offences, often in a brutal fashion, but their approach only created more interest in the punk scene.

At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences, mostly for very trivial offences.

Privatisation of censorship, criminalisation of trivial offences, chilling effects on innovation...

Antiziganism must not be regarded as or remain a trivial offence, but must be punished as a crime.

Life for the ordinary soldiers of the garrison was tedious and harsh, with corporal punishment administered for even the most trivial offences.

The apparent higher crime rate in Notts was almost entirely due to this factor and the Notts police 's greater tendency to record trivial offences.

Reflecting later on a beating he had received for some trivial offence, he remarked that it was better to have a sore bottom than a swollen head.

There was a real problem for officers to find suitable punishments for trivial offences, and it was this which led so many of them to use canes.

And there will be a drastic scaling back of councils' powers to enter homes or spy on residents suspected of trivial offences such as 'bin crimes'.

The case, and the police's subsequent use of the sedition law to punish trivial offences, caused widespread concern and prompted calls for the law to be repealed.