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parochial interest

collocation in English

meanings of parochialand interest


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parochial
adjective
uk /pəˈrəʊ.ki.əl/ us /pəˈroʊ.ki.əl/
relating to a parish (= an area that has its own church ...
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interest
noun
uk /ˈɪn.trest/ us /ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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Examples of parochial interest


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Another obstacle, which is a theme in your work, is the parochialinterest of the private sector, of the financiers who are benefiting from volatility?
At first sight, the book appears to document a piece of academic research, and it would be easy to pass it over as a dry report of mainly parochialinterest.
Their parochialinterest is reflected above all in the spread of manuscript copies of the chronicles, very few of which can be found outside the dioceses concerned.
I naturally have a parochialinterest in this matter.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This is not a matter of parochialinterest.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I wish to declare a parochialinterest: the motorway proposal would eliminate about 200 homes, virtually all of them in my constituency.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I have another parochialinterest.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Some of the motivations have also tended towards personal and parochial interests.
These problems are often compounded by poor leadership that appeals to sentiments based on parochial interests rather than the common good.
Indigenous 'idioms of accountability ' are not simply about the defence of parochial interests, but can provide a moral framework for public protection and resistance to corruption.
In my view, they are wrong, whether they honestly think so or are driven by parochial interests.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In my view, they are wrong - either if they genuinely think so, or are driven by parochial interests.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I doubt whether there will be the present keenness to serve when the parochial interests and historical associations are swept aside.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Even within national boundaries, tourism suffers from this effect of other interests - parochial interests.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In the worst-case scenario, ethnic groups can effectively hijack the foreign policy process and use the strength of the nation for their "parochial interests".
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Wikipedia

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However, the authorities could not act strategically and appeared to be only interested in their own parochial interests.
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Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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