Sentence examples for parochial matters from inspiring English sources

To return to parochial matters.

Still, they increasingly resent both Mr Morsi's bullying style and his government's fixation on parochial matters.

Internal Israeli political negotiations are focused on the terms for restarting peace negotiations, as well as more parochial matters.

Yet these are parochial matters, and will only serve to divert local debate away from the precipitating issue (the local and national strategy on Heathrow expansion).

Back to more parochial matters, and one wonders how much the bullish Premiership clubs' salary cap, unchanged this season from last, might rise next year when the BT broadcasting funding kicks in.

A legal spat between two companies is a parochial matter, but SCO broadened its campaign last month.

He opened on a "parochial matter," praising the success of Republicans in his home state of Kentucky, who won seventeen seats in the state legislature and would control the body for the first time in ninety-five years.

And, unfortunately, that's not a local or parochial matter, or only -- or even really at all -- about baseball.

"Being an Irish writer both hampers and helps me," he once said, "hampers, because one is fighting the preconceptions of audiences who have been conditioned to expect feyness and parochial subject matter; helps, because the writer can utilise a vigorous and poetic idiom which enables him to combine subtlety with richness".

It's not a parochial issue.

Important outside Obama supporters say they're consulted rarely; others say it's usually on parochial or relatively minor matters.