Sentences with phrase «more parochial»

Which, if that begins to take place, will again accelerate the wisdom of organized real estate to put aside more parochial issues.

For example, I am aware of a scholar at McGill who has a theory that European legal systems are getting more parochial and inward looking.

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

My best guess at a worst case is that we would see, as has been the case with past extinction events, serious biological impoverishment over several million years, coupled with the more parochial harm of human losses on a large scale (material, lives, potential, and culture.)

As the mainstream media in the West grows more parochial and biased by the day, these oblique reports from the world's hidden corners should be cherished.

Nevertheless, such pressure is counterbalanced by other, more parochial concerns, such as the preferences of the local school board, superintendent, principals, department chairs, and parents.

But new research shows that our Twitter ties are considerably more parochial than most of us imagine.

Just as nothing is more timeless than number, nothing is more parochial and ephemeral than humor, the core of laughter — or so we imagine.

These challenges play out on a global scale, while except for obliging nods toward the German economic model, Blue Labour is more parochial.

Perhaps Albany is more parochial than Savannah, which has had Jewish and African - American mayors.

And, in his remarks endorsing Sestak, Bloomberg clearly played up his national profile — touting broad themes like «independence» and «leadership» rather than more parochial Pennsylvania issues.

«The security threats we face, North Korea, I'm more parochial,» he said.

With all of the pressures of the mounting economic storm blowing across the Euro zone, challenging Ed Miliband to mould a realistic alternative to the economics of the mad house, there will be many who will understand why seemingly more parochial issues do not necessarily merit the same degree of attention from him.

While he touted achievements like citywide ferry service and addressed more parochial concerns like stop signs, he also took a swipe at the White House in praising the city's diversity.

Current manager Sean Dyche is adhering to the more parochial standards of bygone days by employing a largely British and Irish group of players in his squad.

It won't, but it makes their Bronze Age Bible even more parochial.

Not exact matches

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

One would think that a conference of private and parochial schools would be a little more sensitive to the member schools» religious tenets.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

The question of whether Catholic parochial - school children were to ride public school buses free of charge drew more ink and blood than the cause of justice for women or blacks.

However, no phase of that revolution has been more dramatic than the emphasis that has been placed on the role of the parish council in parochial control.

In my lifetime it has become more rigid, parochial, and punitive.

Finally, endeavoring to make the Christian message more conspicuous is not parochial.

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

Leonard Bacon, long - time pastor of Center Church in New Haven and perhaps more to be remembered for substance than for wit, noted in May, 1852, that «parochial and self - governed churches... is the distinctively American method of religious organization.

The battle with Arsenal might be more of a parochial concern though the thought of finishing below a team that has been the focus of mirth for the last couple of seasons would be particularly galling.

It is amazing to me, in this great State of New York, with all the financial resources we have, that the Senate and Assembly can not get together, as well as the Governor, to see what needs to be done to provide balance of education and the needed funds to allow students, parents and families more of an opportunity to attend parochial schools.

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

Statewide, more than 75 parochial schools have closed in just the last five years, and average tuition can reach as high as $ 8,500 per student annually.

Owing to a series of timing tweaks over the years — instituted by parochial aldermen — the city's main thoroughfare is little more than a series of stops and starts between red lights while the occasional vehicle enters or crosses over from lightly traveled side streets.

But the governor did secure more aid for private and parochial schools.

Yet as de Blasio headed down the Thruway toward home, all the eccentric parochial skirmishing in Albany was merely a prelude to his dream of a far more ambitious convention, two years from now, back in Brooklyn.

Instead of partnering with the Presidency to advance a plan to reform the government and address Nigeria's many challenges, the National Assembly has appeared to be more interested in protecting its own privileges and parochial interests.

The bill, which the City Council passed on Monday, will reimburse private and parochial schools with at least 300 students for the cost of hiring unarmed guards, up to a total of $ 19.8 million in the first year, and possibly more in future years.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

I missed my old school, a parochial microcosm of people possessing bronze - kissed skin tones richer and more plentiful than every brown and yellow color in my biggest box of crayons.

For Lesser drew on a fount of wisdom which sprang from his experiences in a world far larger and more significant than the parochial world of science journalism.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

This manifesto calls for action that helps move simultaneously toward a more localized socio - economic structure and toward a supra - national mindset that helps us transcend the parochial concerns of a corporate - capitalistic globalization to activate a global citizens movement.

Because those nuns are no longer there in significant numbers, staffing parochial schools is now a lot more expensive and difficult than it used to be.

«The studies that I'm familiar with say that the inner - city parochial schools, which spend much less per child on education, do a better job than the public schools that spend much more,» said Scalia, adding «so I just don't think it follows that... more money [will] solve the difficulty that the people of Cleveland found with their public schools.»

Justices Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and John Paul Stevens were unlikely to find the law constitutional, and Breyer may have tipped his hand when he observed, rather whimsically, that parochial schools may become increasingly unconstitutional the more they outshine their public - school counterparts.

Moreover, religious families, whose values may encourage larger family sizes, are more likely to use nonpublic and parochial schools.

In dioceses like New Orleans and Cincinnati, where publicly funded voucher and tax credit programs provide disadvantaged students public money to attend private and parochial schools, a half dozen or more schools have closed since 2014.

By 1911, there were almost 5,000 parochial schools serving more than 1.27 million students nationwide.

Coincidentally, the Archdiocese of Chicago, which ran the nation's largest parochial school system with more than 130,000 students, was in the midst of a demographic and financial crisis.

Parochial schools were once a huge presence on the local scene, but more close every year.

Early results, based on data from the household survey, suggest that 4 - year - olds are more likely to be in «formal» education and care settings (e.g., centers with classrooms, including Head Start, public pre-K, community preschool, and parochial preschool) than are 3 - year - olds.