How to Use localism in a Sentence

localism

noun
  • In the report, it had been made to sound like a paean to localism.
    Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There and elsewhere, localism has become a point of pride.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Since about 2012, however, a new force has emerged to push back against the annual vigil: the rise of localism.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 June 2019
  • As for the protests themselves, Bassingthwaighte makes their localism clear.
    Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
  • Dan Cobley, 42, who has been surfing in Manhattan Beach for 30 years, says localism reigns because of the quality of the waves.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The town, said Mandy Nolan, a local writer, has become a case study in what happens when a culture of localism is marketed on a global scale.
    New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • Thinking about firearms localism requires a shift in mindset.
    Joseph Blocher, Vox, 24 Mar. 2018
  • For starters, a consistent localism is the best hope for conservatives on the national scale.
    Max Bloom, National Review, 13 July 2017
  • Is the localism of the food essentially nullified by the fact that a majority of the diners are traveling thousands of miles to eat here?
    Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 19 May 2017
  • That attitude is slowly changing, although in the rest of the world, those who preach seasonality and localism are most often those who can pay to do so.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Arguments about localism and sustainability may seem trite when most of the customers travel thousands of miles to eat a meal.
    Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • But while these national-scale projects differ in size from the architect's schools and health centers, his approach remains rooted in localism.
    CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • But localism alone might not compensate for the loss of national integrity.
    Fred Bauer, National Review, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Childhood memories, marketing and a fashion for localism came together to make milk tea a totem of Hong Kong culture.
    Kanis Leung, ajc, 25 Nov. 2022
  • On the extreme end of the localism spectrum are those who openly advocate Hong Kong’s independence from China.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • As once-fringe views like localism moved into the mainstream, Lee remained committed to a form of optimistic pragmatism.
    Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • This dual nature, which invites a mix of localism and worldliness, has long been one of our particular strengths, and continues to attract artists and new residents from around the nation and the world.
    Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Get our daily newsletter These legal travails could bring to an end an odd exception to India’s localism.
    The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • Environmentalism and localism are the twin pillars of the resort.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • This situation speaks to the localism of the Roman West beneath its imperial carapace.
    Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The widespread use of the slogan marks a distinctive shift from targeted opposition to the extradition bill, and points to a re-emergence of localism as a mainstream sentiment.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • The irony of a show like Yellowstone endorsing Dutton’s property-first localism, of course, is that Dutton’s ancestors were themselves outsiders, once upon a time.
    Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Unfortunately, there appears to be a concerted effort to move the United States rapidly away from localism toward statism.
    Robert Brooks, National Review, 28 July 2021
  • This is an economic parlance that speaks of entrepreneurship and localism as the twin-propellers of human, as well as economic, capital in America.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The far-right candidate facing French President Emmanuel Macron in a runoff election favors picturesque localism: no wind turbines or immigrants.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Guo also attributes the success of the show to a larger shift — away from stuffiness and localism and toward dealers and viewers who are curious about contemporary makers from other parts of the world — that has been partly driven by social media.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Professor Yanich, who in 2015 produced a study on localism in TV news, found an inverse relationship between consolidation and the amount of local news coverage.
    Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • An earlier post of his functioned as a rallying cry and drew hundreds of comments expressing similar sentiments of localism.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Nazism and Communism – and a devotion to localism and accountability prevails.
    Rose Jacobs, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
  • Clearly, Britishness is far more than the ability to persevere individual liberty, common law, localism, and freedom of speech.
    Sahil Handa, National Review, 10 June 2019

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