Sentence examples for parochial cause from inspiring English sources

Then, too, papers owned by Jewish families, like The Times, were plainly afraid to have a society that was still widely anti-Semitic misread their passionate opposition to Hitler as a merely parochial cause.

You say Shas was wrong to call for new elections because it should "subordinate its pursuit of parochial causes to the wider Israeli interest in negotiating peace".

I mean 500 million people from widely varying sociocultural backgrounds trying to forge a common-ground in peaceful collaboration, constantly negotiating between a shared cause and more nationally based parochial causes.

Shas, meanwhile, should be asked, as the price of any further concessions, to pledge that from now on it will subordinate its pursuit of parochial causes to the wider Israeli interest in negotiating peace.

Therefore, it does not make much sense to look for its parochial "causes" of in each country: President George W. Bush's tax cuts did not get us here — and neither did President Obama's stimulus, Greek tax avoidance, or wasteful spending under left-leaning governments in Western Europe.

This is not a parochial campaign.

There is room for a deal, but it will require German leaders to take on parochial domestic opinion for the larger European cause.

The dismissal caused an uproar among the parochial spectators, many of whom surged onto the pitch and assaulted Coulthard and some English players.

But still sticking to the business of how rather than what Hitchens thinks, the peculiar tone of self-righteousness, combined with a parochial point of view, even when the causes concern faraway, even exotic countries, is distinctive.

But the parochial squabbles of greedy Thai politicians are now causing international distress.

Attacking that story as the "parochial" offerings of a "Little Englander" is not going to help your cause.