(1) A phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality
(2) A partiality for some particular place
(1) Uneven development provided a fertile ground for burgeoning localism and regionalism, leading the bureaucratic elites to defend vehemently their narrow regional interests.
(2) With the exception of certain, fully-gentrified areas, localism and tribalism reign, provincial and backward attitudes dominate.
(3) One of the biggest problems for historians of this period is to balance their sensitivity towards its localism with evidence of the interplay between the locality and the regional, national, and indeed international contexts.
(4) From the results, we concluded that measuring ease of use, localism , editorial vigor, news quantity and interpretation can start us on the road to a measurement system that could eventually lead to defining and locating the sweet spot.
(5) Symbolic attachment may reinforce localism or take the form of personal commitments that extend across socioeconomic strata.
(6) Keep the spirit alive people, and localism too.
(7) The pressures for uniformity may well have backfired, encouraging a stubborn and defensive localism as a result.
(8) The local labour market is influenced by localism because it fosters local preference in employment practices and denies jobs to u2018outsidersu2019 during periods of unemployment.
(9) Politics have been dominated by localism and authoritarianism
(10) What's the point of the Government advocating localism when the district council is run by people who know nothing about Witham?
(11) In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles.
(12) I hope we can get this done and say to the FCC there's a public interest here, people are concerned about localism , competition, diverse any broadcasting and your rules move in exactly the wrong direction.
(13) This in itself suggests the depth of localism and regionalism and the seriousness of giving them due weight in symbolizing the nation as a whole.
(14) And it is also arguable that the model is in any case valuable precisely as encouraging a move beyond the rather narrow empiricism and localism of some tendencies in current British historiography.
(15) Their much vaunted localism , as Boris explains, is merely enthusiasm for yet more bureaucracy, while their antiwar stance is about as far away from traditional liberal internationalism as you can get.
(16) There was also a focus on localism - Labour's growing desire to devolve the way public services are managed.
(17) His imagination had to unlearn its intense partiality and localism ; his tutor apparently assumed that already as young children we have learned narrow sectarian types of loyalty.
(18) Regionalism attracts because we perceive that the admittedly global economy mocks any preoccupation with localism and local loyalties and causes.
(19) What it does mean, however, is that Italy's long history of familial and corporate identity and of communal and regional localism prevailed.
(20) If local dialects are unduly emphasized, localism and regionalism will become more pervasive and more serious.
(21) These religions were capable of transcending the intense, parochial localism of ancient and classical times, and creating wide communities that bridged many languages and cultures.
(22) To avoid too many losers, the local tax take will actually shrink, with even more contributed from Whitehall - which is an odd policy for a localist party.
(23) The real political debate is between the centralisers and the localists .
(24) The appearance of localisms does not negate globalization.
(25) That's right, though the Founding Fathers were always worried about localist emotions taking over a political process that they believed should be rational-legal.
(26) Nonetheless, the localisms introduced lingering friction in the international discourse, which has been compounded by the US not adopting u2018neo-liberalu2019 either, because of its own peculiar left-wing connotations of u2018liberalu2019.
(27) He claims, hilariously, to be against red tape and to have been u2018a localist before the phrase was inventedu2019.
(28) She tried out one of the localisms she had heard.
(29) This argument at first appears to be localist, since it's modeled after the localist argument that if you don't like local mores and laws, you can always move.
sectionalism
provincialism