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She is viewing the situation nationally, not parochially.
The colleges have become parochially interested in their own well-being.
The term is simultaneously both parochially proud and self-deprecating.
I may be speaking somewhat parochially.
This has made some parochially-minded councillors, attempting to cut the rates, to look first at the technical college and to ask what can be cut out there?
There you will see, admittedly, over-simplifying the findings, that the general finding was that two-thirds of the people of this country were parochially minded and anti-international.
More parochially, people do not want an incinerator, a tip, a telecom mast and certainly not floods in their neighbourhood.
It is not enough to approach them parochially.
I may add that our experience has been that this sometimes creates some difficulties with the more parochially minded local groups.
It is disgraceful that a centre of excellence should be treated so parochially by the hospital trust.
