Sentence examples for parochial question from inspiring English sources

It is not a parochial question.

"That's of course a parochial question," he said.

"In their absence, it is important for the mayor to speak out every day, so that even parochial questions get dealt with in a public forum".

But it is no longer such a parochial or academic question as it may seem.

Even amid the din of the upheaval in the Arab world, that new sense of belonging represents a more pacific and perhaps more powerful undertow pulling in directions that call into question more parochial notions.

The experience of Sweden, for instance, demonstrates that charging for more services than is current practice within the NHS can raise money without damaging health outcomes.The government remains parochial on the dual questions of funding and rationing because it likes to present itself as the guardian of the NHS's founding principles.

Consequently, the question whether attending parochial or state schools makes a difference for pre-service teachers' acceptance of evolutionary theory and the preference for its teaching, as it can be inferred from a study of Evans ([2001]), remains open.

Many US Airways employee questions are more parochial — about benefits and free travel privileges.

It shows how the activists broke out of their parochial attitude while mining communities questioned their sexual politics, and it makes a bold case that the strike was not a Light Brigade charge into oblivion, but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights generally.

As an Englishman who's been in the United States for well over a decade, I still find many of the questions on "Jeopardy!" distinctly parochial.

JAI AMROD SCOTT This questions reminds me of just how parochial our ideas of acting — and of movies generally — can be.