Sentence examples for rather parochial from inspiring English sources

Even better, from an outsider's perspective, is that many businesses are family owned, short of capital and rather parochial.

Left-wing movements in other countries have often thought their British colleagues rather parochial, and they have often been correct.

Until now, our notion of what is valid in fashion has been based on a rather parochial view of the world: Europe, North America, certain parts of Asia.

Their rather parochial East Anglian life is described in all its mundane detail, while you conjure the image of this traumatic Alpine scene.

Whereas the first common-law theorists were rather parochial in their aspirations they sought to explain the ultimate basis of the law of England their importance has increased considerably since the middle of the 20th century.

"It's an extraordinary story of, to be frank, a rather parochial, Midwestern denomination finding itself in the midst of a global society," he said, "and finding the questions being asked were not the same ones we had been dealing with".

My Paris is rather more parochial but none the less Parisian for that.

Click here to view It's odd that it's taken over a decade for grime to be picked up as a global electronic music form, rather than parochial British rap, but let's not kvetch.

One of the disputes between Mr. Koh and Mr. Johnson, as reported last year by The Times, was whether the United States' war against Al Qaeda extended to every member of the Islamist groups in Yemen and Somalia, or just to high-level leaders who were focused on attacking the United States rather than parochial concerns.

I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you're taking rather a parochial view at the moment, I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos".

Beenstock and Gafni [5] show that there is a relationship between the downward trend in the rate of road accidents in Israel and other countries and suggest that this reflects the international propagation of road safety technology as it is embodied in motor vehicles and road design, rather than parochial road safety policy.