Sentence examples for parochial measures from inspiring English sources

The case of Orange County, argues sick-leave advocate Ellen Bravo, is the clearest evidence yet of major corporations' influence on what are supposed to be parochial measures.

In a direct rebuttal to Federalist No. 10, he called on lawmakers to put aside their parochial concerns and pass the measure in weeks.

Growing up in Spring Lake, N.J., an upper-middle-class enclave, the son of an insurance company executive, he recalls, with some amusement, how the nuns in parochial school used the ruler for more than just measuring.

Those numbers, first reported by The Villager and later by The New York Post, have elicited equal measures of anger and amusement in the world of parochial education.

In an effort to direct the WHO negotiations away from bolder measures that would advance public health objectives but might threaten its parochial interests, the industry is deploying the diverse set of instruments in its policy-influencing toolbox.

Its setting feels parochial.

Parochial companies may perish.

So far, so parochial.

"It's parochial here.

Too parochial?

Parochial, local.