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15 Western governments have had no qualms about prohibiting the practice, sometimes for parochial religious reasons, sometimes out of solicitude for women who are subjected to an institution that arguably diminishes their status.
Judge Oliver ruled Monday that giving children tax-financed vouchers to attend that city's parochial schools violated the Constitution's separation of church and state.
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).
Shaw, on the hand, had a strangely static understanding of language: he was downright parochial and more than a little snobbish about spoken English and how an alphabet should standardize it.
Neglect, conquest, and isolation, however, had taken their toll, and at first independent Ireland was characterized by a parochial and narrow-minded approach to affairs, and Dublin was content to let its Georgian heritage decay.