Sentence examples for parochial lines from inspiring English sources

The debate, which has been waged along parochial lines rather than party lines, affects thousands of patients nationwide, many of whom are critically ill and have been waiting for months or years for new organs.

"Calcutta has always taken pride in being different from other cities in India — we've been inclusive, the only metro that hasn't voted along parochial lines, a bit rebellious and openly pro-underdog," said Bonani Kakkar, founder of a citizens' group that calls itself Public, an acronym for People United for Better Living in Calcutta.

Moreover, Đính was a native of central Vietnam and would have been popular with those who thought along parochial lines.

As if to underline his point, at the Mass inside the church -- where the saint's remains are buried in a crypt -- the altar was lined with parochial students dressed as crossing guards, holding miniature stop and go signs.

After the Spanish conquest, the first educational institutions to be established on Western lines, apart from parochial schools run by missionaries, were in higher education.

Deborah Honeycutt ardently opposes abortion rights, wants the government to give parents vouchers to pay for parochial schools, and has a hard line on illegal immigration.

Many Czech banks, by contrast, remain parochial and politicised.

"You couldn't imagine high school games with more on the line; they weren't just fighting for parochial titles or New Jersey titles, they were fighting for national prominence," he said.

Ultimately, Mathur notes that the "strangely defensive and rather parochial posture" adopted by Power and Cohen was "entirely in line" with the reception that Chomsky had received from the Anglo-American world.

It was also a period of particularly parochial and backward politics, which laid the groundwork for violent polarization along ethnic lines.

As 9 o'clock approached -- hour of the second daily Mass, and of the start of the day at St .Christopher's parochial school -- Frank and Cindy Lamb of Freeport waited at the curb watching three of their children line up with their classmates.