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parochial adjective biased, dogmatic, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, intolerant, jaundiced, limited, literal, narrow, narrow-minded, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, orthodox, parochialis, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prepossessed, provincial, regional, restricted to a small area, restricted to a small scope, small-minded, unbending, uncatholic, unimaginative, unliberal, untolerating See also: illiberal, narrow, provincial, regional How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Instead, they must pursue their cases in federal courts, as Congress intended and where the law generally is applied more predictably and less parochially. seems to lie in the fact that we all too often view world affairs somewhat parochially, as if they were being played out at the Headquarters on the East River of New York. ``Without a regional solution the only logical strategy is to act parochially and that's exactly what our local governments tend to do,'' said Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments. |
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