I reckon giving that young whippersnapper an early taste of local body politics will immunize him against parochial politics for life. |
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Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need. |
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But to his disappointment, the offer was eventually refused by the parochial church council. |
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There the parochial system was concentrated and efficient, and parish churches could provide altars at which clergy could offer up soul-prayers. |
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She worked 45 years in a laundromat, making minimum wage, and still managed to send her kids to parochial school. |
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With one home-schooled student, eight public school kids, and a competitor from a parochial school, the students are a diverse lot. |
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It was the comics that made me conscious of a life outside the little parochial society of Ireland. |
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A London agent told her years ago that, if she dropped the parochial Morningside background and the pan-loaf Scotticisms, her sales would double. |
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Then we may be able to express the compassion and mateship that we pride ourselves on rather than the parochial bigotry that many now practise. |
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It was, and still is, customary for the thurifer then to incense the people in parochial churches. |
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Throw in a generous helping of parochial interests, and the result is an overcooked and unappetizing stew. |
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Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be. |
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Thus there are some signs that we might get a week of eloquent dispute as opposed to small-minded and parochial bickering. |
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We are often told that establishment taste is parochial, obtuse and unreceptive to novelty. |
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For some, the minute attention to nuances of bygone manners makes her simple romances vapidly parochial. |
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Few non-governmental organizations represented anything but parochial interests. |
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This parochial approach is not assisted by an academia that finds these issues, no matter how central to the issue of strategy, a bit of a yawn. |
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Both these chapelries appear to have had parochial boundaries and there is a record of the year 1340 suggesting this in the case of Towednack. |
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The issues to be resolved range from the grander puzzles of human evolution and speciation to parochial matters of subsistence and trade. |
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And he thinks parochial issues such as veterans' benefits won't swing the election. |
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Councillors agreed to defer a decision on the flagpole to find out if the parochial church council was insured for the broken pole. |
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The parochial church council has unanimously rejected plans to move the 11 th Century church. |
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Over the past few weeks clergymen and parochial staff have been terrorised by youngsters and church buildings plundered by thieves. |
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The book mentions many people and works to pray for, but its thrust is not parochial. |
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The cost of acquiring new land to expand had proved prohibitive and the parochial church council had no alternative but to close. |
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Workers are making steady progressing on the new parochial house beside the church in Enniscrone. |
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She was a lively public speaker, a governor of two schools, and a member of Beverley Minster parochial church council. |
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The move is being considered by some leading members of the parochial church council at trouble-torn St James's, Wetherby. |
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But time has marched on, and we are all that little bit more mature, less parochial in our outlook, than we were back then. |
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They have to drop their parochial attitude, club together and shape their own futures. |
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Americans who have long been criticized for parochial attitudes have grown more interested in the world beyond their borders. |
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Grigor believes commissioners, most of whom are based in London, can be parochial in their outlook. |
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That we could rise above our narrow parochial shells to embrace the larger us? |
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Lawyers always have a narrow and parochial interest in expanding the domain of human activity subject to their cartel. |
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Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed. |
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How long should he suffer these perennial indignities that seem part and parcel of involvement with petty politicians and a parochial press? |
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Our view of the blogosphere gradually narrows, becoming parochial and staid. |
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They are parochial in their attitudes, limited in their views and legendary in their stubbornness and resistance to change. |
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How can a reader possibly be engaged by such seemingly parochial considerations? |
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The real political driving force behind these changes is the widespread realisation that the problems we face are not narrow, parochial problems. |
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Five hundred years ago, the available tools for enquiry were distinctly limited by parochial geography and religious culture. |
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May public funds be used only for public schools, or should charter and parochial schools receive a share? |
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There would be for-profit schools, charter schools, parochial schools, and government schools. |
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Is the American public saying to you hold off on the school vouchers to help kids go from public schools to private or parochial schools? |
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Parents preferred to send their children to free public schools rather than parochial schools. |
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Parishes and churches that run parochial schools are working especially hard at using computer labs. |
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The affluent can afford the high tuition for private schools and the more moderate tuition for parochial schools. |
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The orthodox Lutheran clergy even dreamed of replacing the public schools with Lutheran parochial schools, but lacked the means to do so. |
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Although this is still true today, public and parochial schools are also open to Hageners. |
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The seminaries were full, the convents bursting, parochial schools multiplying. |
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Politically charged battles over vouchers, or public funding of private and parochial schools, still are being fought in several lower courts. |
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It is one short step from parochial affiliations to local mafias that rely on clanship, clientalism, and identity politics. |
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The contemporary appeal of the cod memoirs of a parochial clergyman, covering 50 years of his apparently uneventful life, is open to question. |
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The single greatest impediment to creative, revolutionary sustainment progress appears to be entrenched parochial jurisdictions. |
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They doubtless would object that to pose such a question is to assume an inadmissibly parochial standpoint. |
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He prepares to roll up his sleeves and pitch into the parochial difficulties that await him. |
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You will be hounded and pilloried by the institutional left, ruled as they are by a parochial insularity and dogmatism. |
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She and her four siblings attended parochial school until Mary Margaret was a freshman in high school. |
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He also secured an Act in 1793 to encourage with parochial funds the formation of friendly societies. |
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Most attend public schools, but a few attend private schools, mostly parochial. |
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He found the British dance public and its companies devitalized after the war and complacently parochial. |
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But for more exciting ties and the chance of an occasional victory forget parochial best and go for a British eleven. |
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The notion that all religions are identical may sound admirably open-minded, but it really is dismayingly parochial. |
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Along the way, Fraser reminds us, various sects dissented and established parochial schools. |
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They seek to construct parochial and arbitrary distinctions between the civic and the human community. |
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We are sick of the parochial and patrician attitudes of those we elect. |
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But it sounded very parochial, very small-minded, very irrelevant. |
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It is still taught in Sunday schools and parochial schools for children. |
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If anyone has a problem about transport they are advised to get in touch with any member of the parish pastoral council or phone the parochial house. |
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However, while I succeeded in producing a space for the validation of local voices, I am less certain that this in any way challenged parochial and ethnocentric perspectives. |
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Relying as they must on our current ideas of what is true, important, and right, our judgments about progress can begin to appear irredeemably parochial. |
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Maine has a 130-year-old voucher law that once allowed children living in towns without high schools to attend private or parochial schools with state support. |
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The working holiday had almost come to an end and it was time to leave this Arcadian corner of the country, where being parochial is a way of life. |
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In the latter two cases, the settings are highly localized and parochial. |
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The return of the chimes holds a special place in the heart of the parochial church council member, who has lived in the village for nearly 30 years. |
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Perhaps there are men or women of secret visionary ability in there, suffocating beneath the weight of mediocre debate and petty parochial feuding. |
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Those kids were notorious for being trouble with a capital T, and until everybody learned their own techniques of contraband procurement, the parochial schoolers were it. |
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His application to the parochial church council led to an eight-month trial period and since then the clock has only struck on the hour during the night. |
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Or they're stumping up for parochial school tuition, which their counterparts in Minneapolis don't have to do. |
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Needs that were narrow or parochial a century ago may be interwoven in our day with the wellbeing of the Nation. |
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Each portion in the Plantation was designated a parish in the established church and provision for parochial land was incorporated into the scheme. |
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A surprising number of parochial Brit rappers have emerged in its wake, notably Dizzee Rascal, squawking his stories of knife-waving psychosis and urban blight. |
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The priest-in-charge and parochial church council have made the call. |
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A meeting of the parochial church council is to be held on September 17 and the legal move could be made then, or at a later meeting, said Mr Haskins. |
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My bias is that Congress tends to be parochial, irresponsible, and self-interested. |
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Vouchers provide public funds to parents who need help in paying tuition for private or parochial schools. |
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David Vowles, a member of the parochial church council building sub committee said he hoped that once work began more interest would be generated. |
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The confessor's claims that Stuart had been fitted up shook the parochial world of late 1950s Australia, a country just waking up to the notion of civil rights. |
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At its best, the summer school brings the Trinity College debating society or the television studio in the local parochial hall or hotel conference room. |
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The vast array of suggestions were also presented to the parochial church council, which will now consider all the options before coming up with a final plan. |
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All proceeds raised will be divided between church and parochial funds. |
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Our guiding principle should be to leave behind parochial nationalism and dogmatism, and to promote mutually beneficial cooperation based on equality to enjoy prosperity. |
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The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two. |
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He revealed details of the blackmail to churchwardens and members of the parochial church council and told them he was gay, before doing a bunk on police advice. |
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He served parochial vicarships in Greensburg, New Kensington and Indiana, before being named pastor of Seven Dolors Parish in Yukon and administrator of St. Timothy. |
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The committee should avoid foreign ownership questions which will make them sound parochial or xenophobic or both. |
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Parents are given a voucher or certificate by the government to pay for all or part of tuition if they decide to send their child to a private or parochial school. |
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Private schools, even parochial schools, are vastly more expensive than the average percentage of tax one pays toward education, on local, state and federal levels combined. |
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With royal and lay patronage, a clearer parochial structure based around local churches was developed. |
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Bishoprics, canonries, and parochial benefices passed from one to another member of the same family, and frequently from father to son. |
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The 18th century saw the switch from closed parochial libraries to lending libraries. |
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Before this time, public libraries were parochial in nature and libraries frequently chained their books to desks. |
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As for the development of the parochial system, David's traditional role as its creator can not be sustained. |
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They continued to dominate Commons, while losing a bit of their power to enact laws that focused on their more parochial interests. |
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The basic unit of each game is organised at the club level, which is usually arranged on a parochial basis. |
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Rather than taking up parochial duties in a parish, he became tutor to two sons of Hugh Douglas of Longniddry. |
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He considered that parochial organizations had not kept pace in the city with the growing population. |
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Civil parishes in Scotland can be dated from 1845, when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law. |
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In 1894 the parochial boards were replaced by more democratically elected parish councils. |
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This increases voter choice but is accused by some of producing TDs who are excessively parochial. |
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In 1894 parish councils were established for the civil parishes, replacing the previous parochial boards. |
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Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial. |
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Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters. |
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The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel. |
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Tribes also privilege primordial social ties, are clearly bounded, homogeneous, parochial, and stable. |
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He concluded that tribes in general are characterized by fluid boundaries and heterogeneity, are not parochial, and are dynamic. |
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Conversely, historical developments spanning many current countries may be ignored, or analyzed from narrow parochial viewpoints. |
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Vestries dealt with the administraction of both parochial and secular governmental matters. |
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There is an idea that parochial church councils are quite old but that certainly is not the case at my church,' she said. |
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Parents choose a private or parochial school and have all or part of the tuition paid by the government. |
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Almost half of the city's students were enrolled in private or parochial schools. |
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Whether parishes choose to build parochial schools is up to them, but again it's financially daunting. |
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Private schools existed, but it seemed like almost everyone went to public schools or parochial schools that were similarly egalitarian. |
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Virtues such as kindness, generosity, courage, and humility have returned to textbooks and resources used in both public and parochial schools. |
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The Supremes upheld a voucher program in Cleveland that allowed students to use state funds for both private and parochial schools. |
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Voucher advocates say the funding will allow students to attend up to 85 percent of all private and parochial schools in the state. |
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In areas that have been studied, such as Strathspey and Perthshire, it appears that the parochial structure of the High Middle Ages existed in early medieval times. |
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Direct regulation of public, private and parochial schools in the United States is done by state and territorial governments in Washington, DC, by the District Government. |
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Knowing next to nothing about either place but being aware that at one time their parochial boundaries had met at some impenetrable spot around Saltpan Creek, I agreed. |
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Groups of us wartime youngsters tended to gather in parochial street gangs, and to be an official member of the Yew Tree Road gang necessitated walking the bank boards. |
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Osgood attended a parochial school, followed the minor league Baltimore Orioles, delivered newspapers, and engaged in preteen escapades with his sister and his friend Wally. |
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The agreement, which covers public, private, and parochial schools, was prompted by the growing threat of lawsuits and state legislation against soft-drink makers. |
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British Columbia as a rule has been treated by the culture of Central Canada as somehow exotic and unCanadian, and Alberta as a parochial outback. |
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Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas. |
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But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage. |
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The problem is that these demands tend to be more parochial than millenial, much more NIMBY than global, and more concerned with financial well-being than ecological health. |
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Furthermore, the IRS says you cannot take a charitable deduction for tuition, even if you pay for children to attend parochial schools or qualifying nonprofit daycare centers. |
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