Sentences with phrase «spirit of localism»

Not exact matches

So much for Gopnik's argument that Chesterton's «national spirit» and «extreme localism» led him to his supposed anti-Semitism: they were, in fact, precisely what gave him his respect for other nations and other cultures, including that of the Jews, to which the world owed its knowledge of God, «as narrow as the universe».

The article pasted below - Listen To The Protest And Just Go Local - essentially says that the party is opposed to a national programme of road - pricing but in the spirit of the party's new emphasis on localism, it supports the freedom of local government units to choose their own models - like Ken Livingstone's congestion charge.

An increasingly popular idea in the spirit of the government's new Localism bill, which aims to encourage members of a community to volunteer in the provision of services, is for school playgrounds to be opened for use at the weekends and after school.