Sentence examples for parochial way from inspiring English sources

In a parochial way, New Yorkers will probably be better off.

In the parochial way of most New Yorkers, I have a few well-trod blocks that I consider my own.

You see that with The Office, The Thick of It and, in a slightly more parochial way, with W1A.

"It could be anything from what's happening in Libya to what's happening on Capitol Hill in a very, shall we say, parochial way," she said.

Not in the parochial way that Nigel Farage foolishly believes Vladimir Putin to be no worse than Barack Obama, but in the sense that both sides have legitimate grievances.

"In our naive and parochial way, we have named these things extremophiles, which shows prejudice – we're normal, everything else is extreme," says Ian Stewart, a mathematician at Warwick University and author of What Does A Martian Look Like? "From the point of view of a creature that lives in boiling water, we're extreme because we live in much milder temperatures.

It may be the biggest year of her life preparing for London 2012 but Ennis sees no reason to change her parochial ways.

While the education secretary's foregrounding of British history is right, experts are adamant this parochial path is not the way to do it.

So in a sense you could say that although Jamaica is in some ways parochial, in other ways it's incredibly forward-thinking".

Each could happily pursue its interests in a parochial manner.

But now President Bush could be accused of defining the national interest in the most narrow and parochial of ways.