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Example sentences for: parochial

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Program leaders have been instructed to abandon the parochial thinking of "What's best for clients in my service area?"
A less parochial view shows that change would be good both for the sport and for cherished local teams.
Minority children are indeed accepted at private schools, but even though "they can afford the steep tuition," their parents "often choose other options, including parochial schools and a move to the suburbs" where the public schools "have a better reputation."
Also, as long as I'm on parochial issues, it is freezing cold here, and the radiators in my apartment are making those knocking and whispering noises that make all prewar buildings in Manhattan seem like they were built on Native American graveyards.
This is true most noticeably among minority scholarship students from weak familial backgrounds who have attended Catholic parochial schools (I seem to recall Chicago having the most famous examples of these).