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Synonyms for parochial

having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation

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narrowly restricted in outlook or scope

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87) By accepting parity Suhrawardy expected that it would force members to vote through the manifesto of political parties and not parochially and would lead to the creation of national political parties.
According to him, these individuals have escaped thinking parochially and narrowly, but have self-discipline and accountability.
Tackling this question will allow me to do two things: first, to better understand where the global economy might be going and the risks ahead; second, and more parochially, to outline the main features of the lens we use at the BIS to interpret developments.
He calls it the Broadway Dance Lab, but Josh Prince doesn't think parochially. The not-for-profit "dance incubator" he founded in the fall of 2012 has welcomed choreographers from the ballet world (American Ballet Theatre star Marcelo Gomes) and from contemporary concert dance (Bessie winner Larry Keigwin) as well as, of course, the working theater folk you might expect, like two-time Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler.
It did, however, try to honor the indigenous peoples of North America and was intended to teach young people, albeit parochially, to be like Native Americans before contact with the white man, "an Indian with all that is bad and cruel left out--proud, honorable, a child of the wilderness, master of woodcraft skills" (Francis, 1992).
Ferguson writes: "Kissingers ideal, then, is an American Castlereagh: a conservative statesman who must struggle at one and the same time to educate a parochially idealistic public and to galvanize an inert and risk-averse bureaucracy in pursuit of a legitimate, self-reinforcing international order based on the balance of power between domestically heterogeneous states."
If democracy only brings elections, what use is it?" (35) To Afghan tribes, security was something that was eagerly greeted but parochially instituted.
You can continue to look as inwardly and parochially as you usually do but you won't avoid it that easily.
The result is that the presidency, by its very institutional design, is incentivized to view policy not parochially, but universally.
In any unequal, parochially defined set up, no method of governance can work.
More parochially, what we saw was we had loyal customers in George Henry Lee, but this store sucked customers in across our regional catchment area, from Wirral up to the Preston area."
Meet Jude and Stick, small-town parochially educated boys from Minnesota.
Unfortunately, constructivists themselves often inadvertently encourage these criticisms by talking carelessly or parochially about their work.
Neither Al-Maliki's parochially minded cohorts, nor ISIL's delusional hotheads appear to have any intention of steering Iraq clear away from the bleak future that awaits Iraqis, all Iraqis.
While some writers may have turned retrogressively and parochially away from transnational issues, others had a radically different approach and used aestheticism strategically as a response.