This is the path to hardening of the spirit and becoming rigid and narrow-minded.
To describe it this way to take a narrow-minded and oversimplified view of the subject.
And the only ones who get any satisfaction out of it are the narrow-minded ministers.
"It's narrow-minded to not understand that there's top talent in Ghana, and there's top talent in Indonesia, " he said.
To question his motivation was to be narrow-minded about the curvature of life.
His candidacy should anyway have two big attractions for all but the most narrow-minded members of his own party.
And how, despite his narrow-minded overseers, Bach found a way to fill his music with both emotion and immense logical structure.
From the standpoint of getting innovation done in organizations, having narrow-minded digital experts is just as dangerous as digitally incompetent management.
He said the Greens should reconsider whether their "narrow-minded agenda" was more important than the funeral of "one of the UK's finest-ever leaders".
While Democrats often criticize Bush as ill-informed and narrow-minded, the president will likely give a solid speech that is well received by the general public.
Speaking at the EU summit on the Balkans, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Europe was in danger of descending into what he called "narrow-minded nationalism".
Because rappers are so one-dimensional, so narrow-minded, it comes off corny.
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Sure, the list was narrow-minded, but the way it was compiled and presented is a great representation of how young people want to read this type of content.
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On this evidence, though, the narrow-minded conservatism that seemed to characterise previous generations of voters has been replaced, for now at least, by a more embracing, inquisitive outlook.
Those with mental health problems often fear other people will adopt narrow-minded attitudes if they were to discover that the individual had a mental illness, rather than a physical one.
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Once he had won Mansha's trust, Raja impressed on him that true Islam was spiritual, tolerant, and humanistic, and nothing like the narrow-minded divisive message he had been previously exposed to.
In reality there is no other way than to speak up against the injustice, as the wise and learned would have us do, since blind narrow-minded prejudice can too often go beyond the football fields.
"I think it's very disappointing and actually a bit narrow-minded in some ways that we're just saying young talent from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can't represent that team GB, " he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
If they could promulgate a new global regime of international humanitarian law, they believed they could force governments to rise above their hatreds and the shackles of their narrow-minded national interests to save innocents from slaughter.
Lula rejoiced over the economic crisis of the Western countries stating that the recession was caused by "blond white people" and has shown that he is unable to move beyond the narrow-minded and obsolete anti-imperialism of the third world.
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Others say that view is narrow-minded.
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It is not only in Egypt that clashes between narrow and open-minded versions of the faith have ended in constitutional wrangling.
It was a narrow, defense-minded win, for an offense-crazed team that had previously relied on outscoring its opponents rather than stopping them.
Amazon is violating the classic Harvard Business Review rule that smart companies are supposed to have a single-minded focus on a narrow marketplace.
Yahoo slices its massive audience into narrow, highly targeted groups as small as 17, 000 like-minded souls.
Some reform-minded Republicans recognize the problem, but approach the solution from a rather narrow frame of reference.
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