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1. Under this innovative program, parents 185 per cent below the federal (national) poverty line could send their children to outstanding parochial schools or even to exclusive academies such as Sidwell Friends, where the Obama girls attend school
2. An elected official, however ―duty‖ bound to promote the interests of his or her constituents, is equally bound, if not more so, to serve the interests of the nation in whatever manner such commitments might (otherwise) conflict with (narrower) parochial interests or concerns
3. Government resolutions, requiring ratification by nine of the thirteen states, were, because of hardboiled regional rivalries and parochial prejudices, virtually impossible to adopt
4. Regional (Presidential) Primaries may offer a partial solution in staving off the (disproportionate) influence of parochial designs on political candidates stumping the campaign trail by allowing them to carefully outline their positions on issues of national importance without undue pandering to special interest groups
5. He or she should never pursue, however, his or her own immediate interests or the parochial interests of ―popular‖ opinion that each may otherwise feel indebted
6. Where has it been written that a Great Nation must commend itself to the parochial interests or jealousies of ancient traditions that have lost their comparable standing or concede its leadership position among the Community of Nations, rather than conforming to its (own) enlightened self-interests? Such designs must inevitably tarnish that nation‘s highest historical achievements that it should (otherwise) enjoy and (rightly) pass along to posterity
7. Although laws are not in every respect universally binding, many generally underscore the nature of time-honored (moral) precepts; that is to say, eternal truths and timeless values transcending the limits of parochial custom(s) and tradition(s); whose eternal precedence have been intuitively understood by a (variety) of people among a (variety) of cultures across the course of History
8. I must respectfully disagree with his parochial viewpoint
9. Unfortunately, I was not able to participate in the Procession with the Mother to the little church of Lombillo on Sunday, after the solemn Easter Mass in the parochial church of San Martín, where I was baptized
10. The honourable vision of the Church of Scotland, as the national (but not the state) church, serving every square inch of the mainland and islands of Scotland through a settled parochial ministry is growing dimmer by the year
11. There will be far less need for a settled parochial ministry which, for centuries has been the backbone of our Kirk
12. Today’s system measures individual votes on parochial spending bills, but
13. students in parochial schools
14. Making life safe for Jews is too parochial a rationale: making life safe for the working class and downtrodden has far more universal validity and will appeal to the easily manipulated masses
15. There was little common ground, and he valued Jerry Paulson more as a friend than a parochial naval aviator
16. that they be given a religious education in a parochial school
17. After the city-states of Greece had expanded into empire, their rather parochial gods seemed a little queer
18. No parochial jury would absolve them of guilt, fancy lawyers or no
19. It shows we’re flexible, not parochial, willing to work inter-force
20. I don’t recall any teachers that didn’t look like penguins in my parochial school days
21. As a child I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school
22. And all national life into the parochial
23. nothing) and yet one who is extremely parochial in His interests
24. They may even exhort and give little addresses�may teach Sunday schools and be parochial visitors�may manage Reformatories and Houses of Refuge�may attend Committees, and superintend Church finance I My reply is, that all such suggestions are ridiculously below the mark, and show woeful ignorance of the Church's need
25. If he does not like to have anything so stiff and formal-sounding as a "parochial council," let him at any rate often confer with his churchwardens, sidesmen, and communicants about his work
26. Above all, let every parochial incumbent make a point of teaching every communicant that he is an integral part of the Church of England, and is bound to do all that he can for its welfare,�to visit, to teach, to warn, to exhort, to edify, to help, to advise, to comfort, to support, to evangelize; to awaken the sleeping, to lead on the inquiring, to build up the saints, to promote repentance, faith, and holiness everywhere, according to his gifts, time, and opportunity
27. So, by and large, this parochial policy of the alien rulers precluded the possibility of the native eminence to embrace Islam even for their self-promotion, and thus, the nepotism of the Musalmans and the prejudices of the caste Hindus led to a lopsided Islamic growth on the caste fringes, save some sections of the vaisyas, of the Indian social setting
28. He would find us full of those excellences Pater calls the more obvious parochial virtues, jealous to madness of the sensitive and bloodthirsty appendage known as our honour, exact in the observance of minor conventionalities, correct in our apparel, rigid in our views, and in our effect uninterruptedly soporific
29. “That’s because your life is parochial, to say the least
30. San Pedro is the name ofthe old parochial church in Teruel connected with the legend of
31. My parents sent me to England to be educated and then tried to squeeze me into the straightjacket of tradition and the constraints of their conservative, bigoted and parochial society
32. Here’s what Doubt is about: child abuse at a parochial school, and the cast is two nuns and a priest
33. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp
34. The answers were all based on official data furnished by governors and heads of churches, and founded on the reports of district magistrates and ecclesiastical superintendents, founded in their turn on the reports of parochial overseers and parish priests; and so all of these answers were unhesitating and certain
35. '; 'All this must seem very parochial to Mr Jorkins'; 'In the vast spaces to which you are accustomed
36. Farebrother's residence in Middlemarch, where he was carrying out some parochial plans; and Fred, not seeing anything more agreeable to do, had turned into the Green Dragon, partly to play at billiards, partly to taste the old flavor of discourse about horses, sport, and things in general, considered from a
37. My interests were parochial; I wanted relief from the ego
38. He’d attended parochial schools through tenth grade, and he’d been a good student, even though he never seemed to work at it
39. William Bruce, (the father above-mentioned,) and his brother Archibald, together with a sister, were natives of the town of Dumfries in Scotland, where their father was many years resident as the parochial clergyman; and so continued until his decease, much respected