According to Doug, Mercury Records was initially reluctant to release the song as a single: "[The label] thought it was too regional, and that no one outside the area would get it, but what they didn't see, was the reaction we got to it every night that we played it in front of a crowd, and it didn't matter where we were playing either".
Perhaps it was too regional a story.
There is a competing view: that Assad's ultimate goal is not to marginalize Iran but to bring it, too, into regional talks that involve America — and perhaps Israel.
China believes it too can exert regional dominance by peaceful means – its neighbours; however, do not always see it this way.
One reason may be that the issues at stake are too regional, like forest fires or salmon recovery, or too remote, like global warming.
Many would have liked to get on to the national stage but were either too regional or too ethical (they wouldn't do payola to get on to the radio).
"I started my bookstore in the late 1970's," said Ms. Cohen, the bookseller, "and I know that from most of that time writers would have great ideas for books, and publishers would say New York is too regional.
While these efforts are bringing the details of West Eurasian prehistory into increasing focus, studies aimed at understanding the processes behind the generation of the current West Eurasian genetic landscape have been limited by the number of populations sampled or have been either too regional or global in their outlook [8 11].
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A microbiological opinion that may be too regional to be applicable globally.
