A particularistic-seeming statement.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Alternatively, a claim may be particularistic, such as the claim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nationalism] Reference

Classical nationalism comes both in particularistic and universalistic varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nationalism] Reference

MacIntyre's strongly particularistic type of patriotism is irrational and morally hazardous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotism] Reference

But the problem with nationalism is not is particularistic nature, but the concept of a state with coercive power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Israel is after Azmi Bishara — and why it matters | Jewschool] Reference

Any run-of-the-mill maverick can cast their votes in accordance with "particularistic factors unique to themselves.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Statistically Analyzing the Maverickiness of John McCain Using Statistical Analysis | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central] Reference

But it takes a real maverick to not cast their votes in accordance with "particularistic factors unique to themselves.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Statistically Analyzing the Maverickiness of John McCain Using Statistical Analysis | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central] Reference

Many systematic moral theorists attempt to anchor particularistic virtues such as loyalty in larger universalistic premises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loyalty] Reference

An understanding which has a chance to be national, may be perceived in important public circles as being particularistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the History of 1989] Reference

The New Left not only rejected universalism in general, it adopted a particularistic world view linked to the politics of identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Second, studies of Japan show that as one-party dominance of the legislature rises, spending on particularistic services also rises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The role of Economic advisor will always take second place to Political advisors--who sell particularistic interests for political support.    From Wordnik.com.  [The President and Economic Advice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

But the conservative potential of the particularistic doctrine has crystallised into the cultural left's suspicion of cosmopolitan and global trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Today, with our raucous religious marketplace, those sensibilities have multiplied, and with them, the desire for ever more particularistic forms of prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Book(s)] Reference

The particularistic social relations that characterized Japanese-style politics mean that ideology plays a lesser role in politics; personal relations a greater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The real purpose was to offer fence-sitting members some particularistic benefits for which they could claim credit with companies and organizations in their district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering the 1986 tax reform] Reference

Disenchantment with the Enlightenment tradition has encouraged many thinkers and sections of the public to make sense of their lives through particularistic perspectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

In the fifteenth century only the civil law, as glossed and explained by the Commentators, provided the required centripetal force to counteract these particularistic tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMMON LAW] Reference

Germany, an effort at once opposed by the particularistic powers of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

It was not by any means even a good example of Western particularistic feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807] Reference

The attitude toward Federal relations was accordingly strongly particularistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina on the Eve of Secession] Reference

The national genius of all other peoples of antiquity was narrowly particularistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference

Boston seems to have a higher concentration of particularistic churches than elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

Instead, they reflect the particularistic worldview of a specific group of human proponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

The ultra-Conservatives clung to the particularistic régime of earlier days, and with them the genius of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

I wrote last year, "Jews instinctively fear and feel threatened by nationalistic, particularistic societies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD] Reference

But in this our motives must always be higher motives of national policy and never petty particularistic ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mein Kampf]

Bahaism we find a conspicuous personage who succeeds in disengaging the faith from its particularistic envelope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference

The particularistic powers, however, insisted upon the maintenance of the constitutional limits of the monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Moreover, he did not sufficiently gauge the peculiarities of Prussia, particularistic, dynastic, and bureaucratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In historical context, a particularistic approach is again useful in explaining the relevance of this explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

All are particularistic and irreconcilable; all are organized on the basis of local, racial, or religious interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

Second, the organizers deeply respect particularistic religious practices in the context of this interfaith occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The attempt of Dr. Johann Sigl (editor of the extravagantly particularistic daily paper "Das bayrische Vaterland") to found a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference