Sentence examples for Parochial from inspiring English sources

We are going to see a parochial, unchecked, economy developing with the marginalisation of any progressive-thinking Zimbabweans.

Within the space of a few years, large parochial cemeteries, nestling on the edge of the city, were an accepted part of the London landscape.

By the 1860s, garden cemeteries surrounded the metropolis on all sides, both commercial and parochial.

The restlessness of youth, the landscape of the north, parents, class, the 1984 miners' strike (over long before she was born), and peripheral glimpses of the animal world are some of the poetic concerns of a collection that never becomes parochial or narrowly autobiographical.

The content of Cowell-related films, so far, has been essentially both parochial and recycled.

Although this appeal to the parochial record of individual Dail deputies might save a few Fianna Fáil TDs, there is still likely to be a merciless cull of its parliamentarians.

The consequence has been to create a more parochial sense of identity.

"I think there's something about the specificity of stories, and of place, that audiences across the world are really responding to," says Stephenson. "So just as we in the UK are responding really well to Scandinavian stories, which we wouldn't have done 10 years ago, even very parochial British stories are engaging American audiences.

Whatever the rest of the world might think about England and Australia's little parochial contest, it is no laughing matter.

Unfortunately, our blinkered major political parties, business lobbies and media refuse to see the global carbon budget emergency because they are preoccupied with the self-interest of parochial budget figures.

Parochial authorities in Lambeth, fearing imminent government intervention, slashed their burial fees – the '1st class ground' reduced from 27s to 16s, the "2nd class" from 16s to 6s – a rather grim clearance sale.