Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to localization; of localized character or quality.
- Having the character of localism or a localism.
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Examples
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The entire system embodied an individualistic and localistic view of citizenship, one that emphasizes what the people have to lose, in terms of both rights and prosperity, when more and more decisions are made at the national center.
The difficult question of the health-care law's constitutionality Charles Lane 2010
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Methodologically his approach is microfoundational and localistic rather than sweeping and mono-causal.
Archive 2009-06-01 Daniel Little 2009
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Methodologically his approach is microfoundational and localistic rather than sweeping and mono-causal.
Theories of the Chinese Revolution Daniel Little 2009
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Here was an ironic, localistic counterpoint to the universalistic claims, the "self evident" truths, of
Thomas Jefferson, Federalist. Peter S. Onuf Peter S. Onuf 1993
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MILLER: Well, opponents can combine lots of reasons, even contradictory ones -- they tended to be more localistic.
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Likewise, English puritan parishes from Yorkshire to East Anglia appear to have operated in a localistic manner — in some cases for generations — without regard to "an all-embracing state church."
The Worm's Eye View Allen, David Grayson 1981
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New York, Massachusetts, and Virginia, the conservative, localistic instincts of the farmers and older people were roused to make a strenuous resistance.
The Wars Between England and America T. C. Smith
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The trouble with supranational norms of this sort, much like the trouble with their more localistic counterparts, is that they are norms designed (or maintained) to effectuate other collective ends than the elimination of fossil fuels.
Concurring Opinions Jamison Colburn 2010
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In the villages the peasants had their own rituals and localistic traditions.
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Garrison's proposals not only outraged the localistic politicians of both parties, they also offended a strongly held belief shared by the liberal wing of the Progressive movement.
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