And the vote represents a major test for the newly expanded Council to rise above parochial issues and to take action and set policy for the entire city.

Badly written and concentrating on a parochial issue.

"The parochial issues, while important, are not controlling," said the Speaker of the Council, Peter F. Vallone of Queens.

The Jewish Tribune, which is published from Stamford Hill, concentrates more on parochial issues.

On the other hand you don't want to get too embroiled in parochial issues if you are hoping to attract national coverage.

Rather than achieving unity, the delegates now represent parochial issues and, worse, political parties.

To make sure if someone has a good product, that it comports with good politics and doesn't get into harm's way because of other parochial issues.

The most parochial issues are those that concern historians as such.

So this is not a parochial issue.

"This has become a parochial issue and I want to bring it up to a global perspective," he said.