Suburban and parochial, his vistas stretched far into the East

Parochial power struggles between Downtown and the Westside have been overshadowed by new geopolitics and land economics, leaving the problem of who will rule Los Angeles in the year 2000 a surprisingly open question

the Hogwartian uniforms of parochial academies

It is worth recalling that before the logistics revolution, transporting goods was a physically demolishing task for the bodies of workers. The automation of this labour is something to be applauded, not held back for parochial reasons. For all these reasons, logistics therefore presents an important transition technology between capitalism and postcapitalism.

The utopian potentials inherent in twenty-first-century technology cannot remain bound to a parochial capitalist imagination; they must be liberated by an ambitious left alternative.

he moved beyond the personalized, parochial focus on the leadership of the US Federal Reserve

To call Kazin's background parochial would be too ample: it was not a parish he called home, but a single city block.

the seeming parochialism or irrelevance to America of cricket

the same parochial suspicion of belief systems strong enough to grapple with America's intrinsic egoism

A good deal of manufacturing was outsourced to cheap wage locations in the "underdeveloped" world, leading some parochially minded Westerners to conclude that heavy industry had disappeared from the planet altogether.

The inclusive vision that once drove the labor movement has given way to a guild mentality, at times also among unions, that is smug and parochial.