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parochial

relating to or supported by or located in a parish parochial schools (= insular) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope little sympathy with parochial mentality insular attitudes toward foreigners

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Simple sentences

He is a member of the parochial board.

Movie subtitles

Then this evening, after dinner, we can entertain the reverend mother. and have a real round-table parochial conference.
You've never been pastor of a parochial school, then.
A parochial apprentice.
My parochial apologies, sir.
Parochial beadle.
I hope, sir, that this unfortunate little circumstance. will not deprive me of my parochial office.
Do you remember parochial school out on Puluski Street?
For this is not an ordinary trial. by any means of the accepted, parochial sense.
A totally parochial attitude.
I hope this unfortunate circumstance won't deprive me of my parochial office?
Tonight I want to examine- the whole question of 18th- century social legislation. Its relevance- to the hierarchical structure of post-renaissance society. And its impact on the future of parochial organization, in an expanding agrarian economy.
St. Paul's Parochial School is gonna be playin' hooky.
Good thing we nailed him when we did, because if we had done it within the last 50 years, we'd have to contend with generations of parochial schoolkids with little electric chairs hanging around their necks.
Why are Earth people so parochial?
Its relevance- to the hierarchical structure of post-renaissance society. And its impact on the future of parochial organization, in an expanding agrarian economy.
Oh, for shame, Persis. How parochial.
She was released from parochial school. She's in her experimental phase.
The actual truth of the matter is that I transferred from parochial school because. the Mother Superior was always..
The environmental issues here dwarf any parochial business concerns that I, or you, or anyone else might be pursuing.
They were fairly parochial.
And your parochial school misadventures?
Yet we have always been too parochial, too bound by the mindless routine of the predator.
They're parochial.
He was baptized a Catholic, went to eight years of parochial education.
Remember parochial school on Pulaski Street?
I suppose with your standards you find our life here very parochial.
Craggy Island parochial house, Father Ted Crilly speaking.
Craggy Island Parochial House.
People may be confused about where the parochial house is.
Hello, Craggy Island parochial house.
And the atmosphere of serenity and devotion to Our Lord in the parochial house is very special indeed.
Father Ted Crilly, Craggy Island Parochial House, Craggy Island.
Father Ted Crilly, Craggy Island Parochial House.
No, it's a parochial house.

News and current affairs

Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
But hubris rapidly set in, and parochial interests took over.
But infrastructure spending is usually slow - and almost always driven heavily by parochial political considerations.
The question was how to package elites' interest in free-market capitalism with the provincial temperament of a parochial constituency.
By contrast, the US court rulings' indulgence of a parochial instinct to enforce written contracts will undermine the possibility of negotiated re-structuring in future debt crises.
European integration cannot become all-consuming; a parochial Europe is vulnerable to unsettled regional conflicts and to globalization's challenges.
A non-elected government that capitulated to Hitler offered a parochial, vassal-like future.
They transcend historical Conservatism's specific and parochial concerns.
Should its parochial interests give way to more cosmopolitan responsibilities?
But it is a mistake to imagine the world economy as if it were like, say, global climate - with its health and stability ultimately depending on the pursuit of universal instead of parochial objectives.
The 2007 Treaty of Lisbon was based on the idea that the EU's prosperity and security depend on its members looking beyond their parochial interests and act jointly, in their common interest.
This is not to say that parochial sentiments are unimportant.
All Western policymakers will, before long, have to move beyond their parochial political considerations and anxieties to present a clear strategic vision.
Retreating into unilateralism, ultra-nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.
Much of Asia, including China, focused on meeting the challenge of globalization, whereas Thailand's elite has protected the country's economy to serve its parochial interests.

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