Sentence examples for was very parochial from inspiring English sources

The company's management, she said, was "very parochial and didn't embrace change or implement anything differently".

Prosecutors expressed confidence that the case could be tried on Nantucket, but Mr. Toolan's lawyer, Kevin Reddington of Brockton, said he would seek a change of venue because Nantucket was "very parochial and collegial".

"It was just a fascinating life for me as a kid, cause I was very parochial, I went to Catholic school and I was raised very strictly by my grandmother, and I took dance classes, which is also a great discipline," she said.

"Educational institutions are very parochial by nature," he said.

"Agriculture committees are very parochial but very powerful," Mr. Glickman said in an interview.

I think a lot of church life tends to be very parochial — staying within its own walls, doing things for its own people.

"Fundamentally, the Italian political leadership has been very parochial," said Gianfranco Pasquino, a professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins University campus in Bologna.

And that is providing an alternative viewpoint to domestic news, which is very parochial," said Cathy Rasenberger, a cable consultant who has worked with Al Jazeera on distribution issues in the past.

They are very parochial - they know the best wine of their region but nothing else.' His family, he says, would normally drink the local Jura wine but for special occasions they would buy a good Burgundy from 30 miles away - but that was the limit of their exploration.

And that is providing an alternative viewpoint to domestic news, which is very parochial".

"This is particularly valuable, since most of what Americans know about the war is very parochial". Pike was born in Cass Lake, Minn., the son of a house builder and a schoolteacher.