They have parochial interests.

Now actually, that's just another parochial misconception.

He is a member of the parochial board.

The parochial interests of those 11 countries could complicate the Council's decision making process.

He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school.

Please indulge me by taking that universal perspective while I focus briefly on the more parochial interests of Palau.

But hubris rapidly set in, and parochial interests took over. Before the wounds had fully healed, the treatment was terminated.

Furthermore, poorly designed or developed laws on director and officer responsibilities and liabilities, with outcomes that are uncertain, capricious, unfair or parochial, threaten the benefits of globalization.

The point is, none of us should be parochial, none of us should be so nationalistic to believe that all good ideas will come only from our country.

This imperative is not limited to Obama. All Western policymakers will, before long, have to move beyond their parochial political considerations and anxieties to present a clear strategic vision.

There is also a danger that the Sudan could become a theatre for external forces seeking to influence the implementation process for parochial advantage or bidding for large economic gains.

In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations.

But it worked, more or less. By contrast, the US court rulings indulgence of a parochial instinct to enforce written contracts will undermine the possibility of negotiated re structuring in future debt crises.

For better or worse, fighting epidemics like Ebola or preventing the most harmful consequences of climate change requires solidarity and cooperation. Retreating into unilateralism, ultra nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.

Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms. This, in turn, leads to better moral commitments, including avoidance of violence.

Neo conservatism thus cannot be reduced to advocacy of the free market or right wing populism, since its ideological specificity consists in the fusion of these contradictory outlooks. The question was how to package elites interest in free market capitalism with the provincial temperament of a parochial constituency.

This very centralized and proud country, where the state matters more than elsewhere and the military had won so many wars, witnessed the complete collapse of both in the span of just two weeks. A non elected government that capitulated to Hitler offered a parochial, vassal like future.

Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party camouflaged their personal and parochial financial interests behind the patriotic mask of ensuring the survival of a democratic Chinese society in an independent Taiwan. For years, Chen was perceived as a brave David fighting the communist Goliath, and attracted many admirers around the world (including me at one point).

Of course, it is premature to conclude that JPMorgan violated the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by employing children of Chinese officials who oversaw companies that retained the bank to underwrite their stock offerings. Nonetheless, the case highlights a broader trend the wooing of China s princelings by prestigious Western educational institutions and businesses for the purpose of advancing their parochial interests in the burgeoning Chinese market.

The network of information centres had been built up in an ad hoc manner over the years and while his delegation fully acknowledged the validity of host countries' views concerning the regionalization decision making process, it urged all those concerned to set aside their parochial interests and seize the opportunity afforded by the regionalization process to create a system of regional information hubs that was better suited to the needs of all Member States.