| To separate nationalism from regionalism or particularism is difficult and often depends upon the eye of the observer. |
| From Lowry's perspective, by contrast, national particularism can never be an unmitigatedly constructive force. |
| The problem is that the particularism of friendship is at odds with modern conceptions of virtue as disinterestedness and detachment. |
| This sort of tolerant encouragement of local particularism was undermined, however, by a powerful statist dimension in imperial attitudes. |
| Usually they're mocked as advocating some old-fashioned left-wing politics or some particularism, like saving local conditions against globalism. |
| There is, in fact, a natural cap on local property tax rates imposed by local particularism. |
