Conceptually, our current research governance systems are parochial, being based around national boundaries and designed for one research projects, one researcher and one jurisdiction.
The concept of "marriage," however, is a term so suffused with religious and cultural overtones that it crosses the supposedly Constitutionally-drawn line in the sand between Church and State, between the parochial and the secular -- a boundary that we accuse evangelical Republicans of repeatedly violating in their efforts to inject their values into public policy.
Despite the fashionable notion that "affinity groups", people who share similar tastes but not nationalities, would enable advertisers to cut across national boundaries, television advertising remains highly parochial.
Under the program, federal money flows through public school districts, which are obligated to buy the equipment and distribute it, technically as loans, to all schools within the district's geographic boundaries -- public, private and parochial -- based on their enrollment.
The New Yorker, August 21, 2000 P. 64 Talk obituary for Sir Alec Guinness, 86... Writer compares him to Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud... Almost single-handedly, Guinness insured that the Ealing comedies, named after an inglorious patch of west London, would blossom beyond their boundaries and shed, for a while, the parochial drudgery of British cinema.... Guinness never knew his father.
Organisational context encompassed a wide range of elements from the parochial to the regional or national level and included organisational cultures, such as hierarchies and professional boundaries, staffing arrangements, social, geographical and environmental barriers, and the impact of other simultaneous organisational changes.
Its setting feels parochial.
