What's the difference between parochial and sectarian?

Parochial


Definition:

  • (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.

Sectarian


Definition:

  • (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
  • (n.) One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (2) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
  • (3) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
  • (4) Iraqi politicians started to brand themselves as cross-sectarian nationalists who wanted to build a unified Iraq.
  • (5) In the Punjab, the eastern province, the movement has been able to forge ad hoc links with fragmented sectarian groups or freelance operators who have split away from bigger, more established organisations that are under close watch by intelligence agencies, the officials said.
  • (6) She rejected recent criticism that she has not been sufficiently outspoken against sectarian violence in her country, particularly attacks on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the west of the country.
  • (7) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
  • (8) If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
  • (9) Early in the unrest protesters carried crosses and shouted anti-sectarian slogans: "Muslims, Christians, Alawis are all one."
  • (10) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
  • (11) Bridging the Muslim-Christian divide and climate issues are major themes of the trip that also takes him to Uganda, which like Kenya has been a victim of extremist attacks, and the Central African Republic, a nation riven by sectarian conflict.
  • (12) I grew up in Northern Ireland and it’s Paisleyite language being used to describe the effects of not being in the EU: ‘We will lose 3m jobs and the people who aren’t in it are little Englanders’ … It’s almost sectarian, the language.
  • (13) Thank God we have succeeded in ridding ourselves of sectarianism and racism."
  • (14) The detainees include Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a political opposition leader, and Ebrahim Sharif, the leader of a cross-sectarian political party and one of the few Sunni Bahrainis to have been jailed for his part in the protest movement.
  • (15) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.
  • (16) I have been telling them for years that there is a leader (Maliki) that is sectarian, a one-man band who listens to no-one else.
  • (17) "He not only followed US Apache helicopters' trails of death and destruction, but he was also among the first to report every 'sectarian' atrocity and the bombing of popular market places.
  • (18) Central African Republic is in danger of becoming the world's latest failed state , with increasing sectarian violence sparking a humanitarian disaster.
  • (19) "The killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain was a conspiracy by someone who wants to take advantage, to bring Karachi to another test in terms of sectarian and political polarisation," he said.
  • (20) There were also attempts to portray the violence as sectarian in nature.