(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
(3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
(4) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
(5) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
(6) Scientific inquiry, for the most part, can be described as parochial.
(7) The MAACL-R scores of 139 middle and senior high public school students (76 females, 63 males) were compared with those of 403 parochial school students (196 females and 207 males).
(8) Because most experiments on lateral eye movement and laterality are done with one parochially based group, it was wondered if percentages of laterality and consistency of glance would be consistent in disparate groups.
(9) Other leaders, however, proved equally unable to transcend parochialism when the crunch came.
(10) Indeed, you could argue that Better Together's estimation of women's political contribution is more respectful, for instance, than that of the Labour MP Austin Mitchell, and a school of thought that finds, with him, that women are not so much too preoccupied, as too feeble, mild, parochial and, basically, female, not to be discriminated against.
(11) Nonprivate, non-parochial, university-affiliated agencies welcome student learning experiences and have the time, place and people resources to support them.
(12) Some of our conclusions are parochial, some are generally applicable; others are applicable only to countries with comprehensive health care.
(13) The goal is: (1) to show that data pertaining to individual cause of death extracted from parochial records can contribute to knowledge about historical mortality patterns at the community level, (2) to determine if an epidemiological transition occurred in this population, and (3) to identify changes in disease patterns over time.
(14) Differences were noted in the food habits of students in public vs. parochial schools and by birth place.
(15) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(16) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
(17) I don’t have time to take counsel from the east-coast Twitterati.” “There is,” he continued, talking with the west-coast parochialism of someone who didn’t just move to Perth five years ago, “a significant disconnect between what people are saying over east and what is happening here in Canning.” Andrew Hastie says he was cleared over accidental deaths of two Afghan boys Read more The people of Canning, he said, are concerned about jobs, the ice drug trade and infrastructure.
(18) "This will destroy a research-led department with an excellent reputation and make Swansea look insular and parochial," it says.
(19) This study shows that HCMV is less parochial in its host range than previously thought.
(20) We believe discussion of this question has been needlessly parochial and confused.
Pedestrian
Definition:
(a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
(n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
(3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
(4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
(5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
(7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
(8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
(10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
(11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
(13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
(15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
(16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
(17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
(18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
(19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
(20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.