As parochial lobbies form, he said, each gains, then fiercely defends, some benefit for its members, usually with government help.
Similar attitudes are shown by tribal or parochial societies to any form of appearance or behaviour that deviates from their strict norms: the stranger is not really human; he only pretends to be "like us".
The Catholic Church, which once opposed comics vigorously and, for a time in the 1940s, sponsored public burnings of comics at parochial schools, recognized the form's appeal to young people and took to publishing its own comics adapted mostly from the New Testament.
Labour hoped the London borough elections would be the "wheelie bin elections", fought on parochial issues with voters forming their opinions based on the quality of local council services: are the streets clean and the bins emptied?
Click here to view It's odd that it's taken over a decade for grime to be picked up as a global electronic music form, rather than parochial British rap, but let's not kvetch.
Sissy Fight 2000, a Web-based, multiplayer free-for-all, is a game not for children but for adults in the mood for a little whimsical regression, often in the form of marauding parochial-school girls going by names like Big Patty, Sky Witch and PMS Angel.
I see once more ... that really parochial environment where the talent of Valentin Alkan was formed and where his hard-working youth blossomed .
Churches, mosques and synagogues may constitutionally receive government aid in the form of tax exemptions and fire and police protection, and parochial schools may receive government-financed computers, textbooks and remedial education.
Under ten presidents, the Miami Cuban lobby has been preventing any form of normalization with Castro's Cuba out of the most parochial of interests.
The only premodern form specifically mentioned is Neanderthal man the latest and, in the view of many workers, the most parochial of premodern humans.
