Sentence examples for of parochial concern from inspiring English sources

And so we passed, looking for signs of parochial concern, through Hazard and Whitesburg and stayed the night in a cabin on top of Pine Mountain, on the property of a man who has been burned out of his house four true determination, on both sides four times in ten years, probably all of them small acts in the long war over the future of coal in this part of the country.

But the sheer ambition of the trade negotiations, which aim not only to eliminate import duties but also synchronize regulations governing products like cars, drugs and medical devices, leaves plenty of room for the talks to bog down in the type of parochial concerns that have derailed past efforts at a trans-Atlantic trade pact.

Indulge us as we dwell on parochial concerns and complain about the subways.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin March 26 , 2009Indulge us as we dwell on parochial concerns and complain about the subways.

She says the world economy needs an agreement on cross-border resolution of megabanks providing a framework to unwind them in an orderly way in case of failure: This is a gaping hole in the financial architecture right now, and it calls for countries to put the global good of financial stability ahead of their parochial concerns.

"This is a gaping hole in the financial architecture right now, and it calls for countries to put the global good of financial stability ahead of their parochial concerns," she said.

Rather than a much-needed conversation about coming cuts to the US military budget or the drawdown from Afghanistan and the so-called pivot to Asia, the nation was treated to a risible array of hyperbolic, ill-informed, gotcha questions and expressions of narrow parochial concerns that had almost nothing to do with the challenges facing the next secretary of defense.

Congressional leaders wrestled at the same time with a more parochial concern, health insurance for members of Congress and their aides.

This may seem a trivial or even parochial concern to the western reader, but maintaining a sense of equity in representation among Nigeria's diverse ethnic nationalities is not an issue to be scoffed at.

Ten years on China has managed to make Hong Kong's political demands seem an almost parochial concern.

This is a region where hope for a new future actually turns out to be a parochial concern.