And it is disconcerting when religious and ethnic parochialism is apparent in reformasi rhetoric.
To Bagehot's mind, a third magnificent thing about the Scottish Parliament is its parochialism.
Differences between coalition parties can still hinder a coherent approach, and parochialism is endemic.
He was as disdainful of parochialism in the life of the mind as in the life of a nation.
Bolivar's dreams of continental integration yielded to parochialism: the Central American Federation of 1825 was five countries by 1838.
This U.S. policy is evidently much influenced by the rank parochialism of President Clinton's senior policy advisor, Greek-American George Stephanopoulos.
Mr Cameron himself casts his views on Europe as a function of his liberalism, rather than as a symptom of little-Englander parochialism.
Catalan politics is based on clumsy parochialism, dead-end linguistic nationalism and an astonishing amount of whining about our treatment by the rest of Spain.
Such parochialism has caused the rival Ricardians to unsheathe their swords.
WSJ: Bones of Contention: If the Skeleton Is Richard III, Where to Bury It?
The jazz-nerd d.j. and musician Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn) became charming rather than irritating, and there was a wry self-awareness all around about New Orleans parochialism.
To the contrary, that record suggests that there exists at the highest levels of German industry and officialdom a cynical willingness to subordinate common security interests to narrow parochialism and greed.
The residents of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and other nearby towns, for example, view each other with often vitriolic disdain (Mr Drummond's costume commemorated an unfortunate shipwrecked monkey, hung in Hartlepool as a spy for Napoleon a suspicious parochialism that endures).
The Dangers of Myopic Parochialism: A principal by-product of a decision to cancel space-based and sea-based elements while reactivating the E2I and GSTS would, of course, be to put almost the entire SDI program into the Army's hands -- much of it centered in Huntsville.
The Davis-Hammond parochialism seems particularly misplaced when it comes to their desire to resuscitate cancelled programs like E2I and GSTS. For example, under the current budget, Brilliant Eyes sensors will be available two years prior to the congressional target date of 2002 for the initial site.
Only by guaranteeing that the full array of expertise and perspectives on the national interest available to the U.S. government are brought to bear, from before the negotiations begin through to their conclusion, can one be reasonably assured that the petty parochialism of one or another department will not produce undesirable results.
应用推荐