Sentence examples for parish-pump from inspiring English sources
The word "parish-pump" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe local or small-scale politics, and most typically refers to the local concerns and issues discussed in a local political context. Example sentence: The parish-pump debate dominated the local council meeting.
This is no parish-pump battle.Yet here's the rub.
The first man to be arrested and delivered to the tribunal was Dusko Tadic, a parish-pump sadist from Kozarac, who had kept a café called Tibet.
The man leading the Karadžić prosecution, Alan Tieger, was there at the outset prosecuting its first defendant in 1996, a parish-pump sadist and murderer called Dusko Tadic, now free after serving his sentence.
DEADLINES missed, settlements expanded, the peace process stalled: a glance at the past three years suggests it would be reckless to entrust Binyamin Netanyahu with parish-pump negotiations, let alone the future of the Middle East.
He was among the first to refer extensively to small-town customs, parish-pump traditions, squibs and broadsheets, semi-literate letters and diaries, and faded, repressed pamphlets, even to cite the evidence of popular ditties or quote from the ink-stained minutes of working men's clubs.
The trials at the Hague followed that chain of command down which we had been passed, in reverse: first, Dusko Tadic, a parish-pump killer and torturer who roamed the camps at large; then groups of guards, then Kovacevic, then Stakic – among many others.
Women had to fetch water from the parish pump or buy it from a publican by the bucket.
A number of the political articles are too much Washington parish pump stuff to be really worth reprinting.
The old inferiority complex, the parish pump gombeenism, the "shure, 'til be grand" lack of hurry – these were aspects of Irishness we explicitly rejected (while, alas, adding to the national notoriety for binge drinking).
Up the A361 near Chippy is Jeremy Clarkson, and west a bit at Kingham are the Bamfords, the JCB millionaires whose Daylesford farm shop serves as a central canteen and parish pump.
A year after the voters of the UK handed David Cameron an entirely unanticipated invitation to govern alone, the people of England have again refused to bow to some of the predictions made at the Westminster parish pump.
