51.   Larry Frankel, executive director of the ACLU, accused city authorities of overreacting to the provocations and relatively petty crimes of some demonstrators.

52.   Many of them were arrested for bizarre public behavior or petty crimes like loitering or public intoxication.

53.   Many of the arrests have come from traffic stops, old warrants for petty crimes and tips about suspicious activities from neighbors.

54.   Many of the pardons Bush has issued were for petty crimes committed years ago.

55.   Myers said he believes that Mayfield refused to allow her daughter to spend time with Hook, who had a history of petty crimes.

56.   Neighborhoods riddled with petty crime and local merchants whose customers are scared away by the sight of vagrants often band together to eliminate these unwanted people.

57.   On the broad avenues of Ulan Bator, grimy street children make up a scavenger force and also engage in petty crime to survive.

58.   Only some few hundred are deported for petty crimes.

59.   On Tuesday the judge threw out two of the charges and remanded the remainder to a petty crimes court, apparently precluding any further incarcerations.

60.   Petty crime is on the rise.