Sentence examples for parochial failure from inspiring English sources
The irony of cultivating international success from parochial failure isn't lost on Kinney.
But the deal transformed an industry and represented the failure of a proud but parochial American family dynasty to stave off a foreign threat, says Julie MacIntosh, author of "Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon" (Wiley, $27.95).
Senate Republicans and a handful of coal and oil state Senate Democrats, driven by parochial, political self-interest and aided by the Obama administration's failure to put up a real fight to honor the promises it made last December in Copenhagen, have refused to address the most dangerous, long-term and in effect irreversible threat to the health and survival of human beings.
One of the great failures of American universities is that they are far too parochial, rarely exposing students to worlds beyond our borders.
That failure has its lessons to offer, and the Philharmonic has certainly become less parochial in recent years.
The novel, like most of Fitzgerald's stories, is about tragicomic failure: the book ends with Florence Green leaving the town by train, thwarted by a vengeful and parochial community, the dream of her shop in disarray, bowing her head in shame, "because the town in which she had lived for nearly ten years had not wanted a bookshop".
Its setting feels parochial.
Parochial companies may perish.
