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Example sentences for "parochial"

Lexicographically close words:
parmy; paro; paroccipital; paroche; parochia; parodied; parodies; parodist; parody; parodying
  1. A certain Sir Nigel Anstruthers, whom it appeared he ought to be able to recall, was in the neighbourhood, and wished to see him on a parochial matter of interest.

  2. What could a person of that sort have to say of parochial matters?

  3. Parochial matter" was vague, and so was the Duke's recollection of the man who addressed him.

  4. That this description of the national feeling is not exaggerated, must be evident from the tone of the numberless speeches made at the parochial and provincial meetings, immediately on the publication of the atrocious Bull.

  5. Will study and contend against drug addiction, enforce prohibition, observe neuro-psychiatric cases among former soldiers and care of psychological cases in parochial schools.

  6. Medical inspection in parochial schools is carried on by Bd.

  7. Public Service Corporation furthered "Safely First" campaign by talks in public and parochial schools, May, 1915.

  8. Open to pupils in public, private and parochial schools.

  9. Indeed, he goes so far as to say that to ensure good parochial government, good dinners should be provided for the authorities.

  10. On one occasion a tea-meeting was attached to a movement for getting some parochial work done, of which part of the parish approved and part did not.

  11. The diocesan nominators have probably agreed upon their man; the equal number of parochial nominators have almost certainly done the same; the Bishop, acting as chairman, has the casting vote.

  12. A church must not only be built, but paid for, before it can be consecrated, the act of consecration carrying with it full parochial rights.

  13. After breakfast John mounted Coræbus, leaving a short farewell, and set off hastily with the old–fashioned valise behind the saddle, wherein he was wont to bear wine and confections upon his parochial tours.

  14. A parochial assessment committee, or a surveyor for the property–tax, would have stuck on something considerable, if they had only seen the outside of it.

  15. French cognac we bought for parochial rheumatism, with one thin slice of lemon, an ebullition of water, and half a knob of sugar.

  16. The parochial schools (escuelas religiosas) have given their fruit; the lay schools (laicas) have also borne fruitage.

  17. The personal wants of the three clergymen were very simple, but the servants were useful in many parochial affairs.

  18. Rather nervously, Carr explained that he had called on a matter of parochial business.

  19. During the afternoon he set out on a round of parochial visiting.

  20. Again, public worship ought to be the highest and not the only expression of parochial family life.

  21. Church life may be conceived of as a series of concentric circles, the innermost of which representing parochial relations, the next diocesan missions, then domestic, and the outermost circle foreign missions.

  22. Ideally the worshippers belonging to the parochial family are all known to one another and in frequent personal contact; they do not look to their clergy alone for spiritual help, but also to their fellow laymen.

  23. Some persons imagine that the most desirable parochial life is where all the parishioners are of one stripe, instead of that in which there is a finely disciplined diversity.

  24. To-day this thought is much obscured by the parochial family having so little reality outside the church walls.

  25. In one day seventeen children were buried in one of the five parish churchyards of the city; but that high mortality, according to the parochial surgeon, did not on an average stand for more than four deaths in one hundred cases[1229].

  26. In that outbreak, 188 poor persons were visited from the Newcastle Dispensary, the Gateshead poor having been attended by the parochial surgeon.

  27. Joseph Philippe Lamarche was educated in the parochial schools of his native town and in L’Assomption College, which he attended for six years, his course there being supplemented by two years’ study in the Ottawa University.

  28. George Daly acquired his education in the parochial schools of Montreal, which he attended until he was twelve years of age.

  29. For the rest, Punch became increasingly critical of the demands of Labour and the parochial outlook of its leaders; increasingly antagonistic to the measures passed in satisfaction of those demands.

  30. Punch fortified the argument by a set of verses headed "Rule Britannia" and ending with this stanza:-- Devotion to the needs of home And claims parochial is not all.

  31. The work of these self-sacrificing women cannot be over-rated in one sense, but in the parochial sense (if parochials have any) they can hardly be rated enough.

  32. The activities in the church and parochial schools have now to be turned more toward Americanization.

  33. The local native settlers stated to the writer that the German parochial school ought not to be there.

  34. The parochial school and Catholic and Lutheran churches are, in many of the districts studied.

  35. I say it was the Lutheran parochial school.

  36. There are plenty of parochial schools in which German is taught exclusively in McIntosh and Emmons Counties, and in the western counties (in the town of New Salem, etc.

  37. In regard to this fact the local church head explained to the writer: Aside from a number of lower parochial schools, there is one parochial high school and one parochial college, Hope College.

  38. In the rural districts of those states it is a fact that where there exists a private or parochial school, the public school is neglected, poorly equipped, and has a very small attendance.

  39. It has three public school buildings, and Garr Institute, a parochial school, conducted under the direction of St. John's Church.

  40. A parochial school is maintained in connection with the church and has thirty-nine children in attendance.

  41. The first Catholic church, St. Patrick's, was organized at Newburgh in 1826, and the parochial school in connection with that church was started soon afterward.

  42. The exhibition of school work not entered for competition was a revelation to thousands of visitors of the work now being done by the pupils of public, private and parochial schools.

  43. Under his management the remainder of the mortgage has been paid and plans drawn for a parochial school to be erected on the grounds in the rear of the church.

  44. There is one parochial school in the town.

  45. The book is the product of a master-mind, and ought to be in every Protestant family as well as in the school or parochial library of every parish.

  46. Seventh,—The cost for the education of these wandering children should be paid by the guardians of the poor out of the poor rates, a proper account being kept by the schoolmaster and delivered to the parochial authorities quarterly.

  47. This Manual is particularly adapted to the use of Parochial Schools.

  48. One reason for this was that the new law provided for English schools; another was the objection of the thrifty Germans to taxation; and another was the fear that the new state schools might injure their German parochial schools.

  49. The church parochial and charity schools were essentially schools for instilling the church practices and beliefs of the church maintaining them.

  50. Neither New Jersey, New York, nor Pennsylvania may be said to have developed any colonial educational policy aside from that of allowing private and parochial effort to provide such schools as seemed desirable.

  51. In the Middle Colonies many of the parochial schools had died out.

  52. In these the Dutch established typical home-land public parochial schools, under the control of the Reformed Dutch Church.

  53. Explain the theory of "vested rights" as applied to private and parochial schools.

  54. Most of the rural and parochial schools closed, or continued a more or less intermittent existence.

  55. Gil humbly wended his way back to his parochial dwelling, satisfied to have been an instrument of divine Providence for the unravelling of one of the most bloodthirsty plots ever invented by the perverse mind of embruted mankind.

  56. He said further that they made undesirable acquaintances and thus gave rise to grave scandals, and that they were too greedy of burial and legacy fees and thus encroached upon the parochial clergy.

  57. This result was inevitable because of the rise of the synodal system, the assimilation of the organisation of the Empire, and the development of the parochial system, which subdivided the diocese into smaller sections in the hands of priests.

  58. The appointment of the priests was made by the "Patron" of the parochial church, i.

  59. It was sufficiently clear by that alone that the holy orders have more than enough reason for the independence from the bishops that they enjoy in their parochial ministry.

  60. Special Courses are arranged in order to train persons to become Masters of Schools of Art, and to enable Schoolmasters of Parochial and other Schools to teach Elementary Drawing as a part of general Education concurrently with Writing.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parochial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    parochial school; parochial schools