But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

Xenophobia is a sign of education gone wrong an expression of narrow mindedness and the inability to put oneself in the position of others.

Even today, with the eurozone s essential players apparently convinced that they are out of the woods, national narrow mindedness is experiencing a revival in the EU, and the desire for change seems to be slackening.

The study of absent mindedness in everyday life provides ample documentation and categorization of such aspects of behavior.

But this single mindedness will not yield the flexibilities of mind, the multiplicity of perspectives, the capacities for collaboration and innovation this country needs.

Liberal democracy, in its search for civic mindedness, depends on people and institutions that can guide the way by their example, beliefs, or worldview.

The boxes are too narrow.

It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species and jeopardize our own future in a fit of absent mindedness.

This narrow focus makes the debate unconstructive.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.

Britain s last election also produced a narrow outcome.

On this narrow point, they might be right.

This is a clear but very narrow standard.

Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range.

Alas, Hatoyama controls only the narrow field of policy.

Her mission was projected from a narrow ideological base.

Selectivity and narrow reinterpretation can only weaken the Treaty.

It was some kind of narrow river or channel.

States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.

Amar Bhide suggested that commercial banks return to narrow banking.

The subject of their work can be narrow or broad.

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

The Russian government s concept of modernization is too narrow to succeed.

Trade negotiations become either broad and deep or narrow and limited.

You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events.

This narrow, fearful mindset runs contrary to everything this festival is about.

The West s options will continue to narrow if it maintains its present course.

The objections of industry rest on the narrow issue of added financial cost.

Finally a set of three narrow coronoid bones lie above the prearticular bone.

In extreme examples, some broadsheet papers are nearly as narrow as traditional tabloids.

The interorbital region of the skull is narrow and flanked by high beads.

Narrow, individual interests cannot hinder the efforts of a large majority of countries.

These sectors are technologically sophisticated, but form a narrow base for long term development.

But in most economic analysis, the decision makers point of view is quite narrow.

Indeed, a large literature on knowledge spillovers points to their remarkably narrow geographic range.

Various online efforts are being made to combat the media's narrow view of Yemen.

The music has to have a soothing rhythm and a rather narrow musical range.

Martin's church is a long church with three aisles with very narrow side aisles.

The salvation of the country should have priority over narrow interests and personal ambitions.

And in each one of these research areas, of which there are even more, there are PhD students, like me, and we study incredibly narrow topics, things as narrow as a few processes or a few molecules.

But if what we want is to be like those butterflies, to have open mindedness, open learning, imagination, creativity, innovation, maybe at least some of the time we should be getting the adults to start thinking more like children.

First, companies should modernize core competencies by benchmarking beyond the narrow confines of their industry.

Not surprisingly, the political elite became self absorbed and served only its own narrow interests.

The narrow view of the catastrophe s economic impact is that Japan doesn t really matter anymore.