Sentence examples for insular view from inspiring English sources

Instead, administrators adopted an insular view of professionalism that emphasized crime fighting as the primary function of police work.

It is such an insular view that it's tempting to chuckle and think no more of it.

He says he is waging war against religious intolerance, and an insular view of faith that not only prevents unity among peoples but promotes violence.

It is unfortunate but understandable that people who have achieved these results have an insular view of why they have achieved it -- and why others haven't".

Then a woman from the former Soviet Union, a Jewish immigrant resettled in our community, took her place among us, and in a more direct way, forever altered our insular view of the globe.

It stated: "Many of those who voted to stay in the UK two years ago did so because they wanted to reject a narrow nationalism and its insular view of the world".

One would hope for access to fiction and nonfiction (preferably translated works from the region) that like the Oscar-winning movie A Separation, would enlarge our context beyond insular views or unexamined assumptions.

The logical response, according to this miserably insular, unambitious view, should be police crackdowns, tougher border controls, deportations and a host of other repressive cliches, up to and including leaving drowning migrants to sort their own problems out.

Unlike the first three, which require you to take an outsider's perspective on your situation and consider it as objectively as possible, this one addresses you as an insider, at risk for adopting an insular, limited view when you consider norms and values, because we are naturally inclined to take care of our own.

Given the country's often unhappy history with foreign governments, from Portuguese colonizers to United States support for the 1964 military coup, and lost within its own endless borders, it is perhaps unsurprising that Brazil (if not all Brazilians) sometimes has an insular, wary view of the world.

The result is a loss of experience with different perspectives, which can contribute to an insular world view, on the one hand, and experiences of social exclusion and devaluation on the other [ 10].