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"Institution" in a Sentence (23 examples)
The institution must be protected.
The institution advertised on TV for volunteers.
The institution was established in the late 1960s.
That institution must be protected.
This institution came into being after the war.
The coffee break is an American institution.
The institution of marriage appears to be on the decline.
We had scarcely arrived at the Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children.
Each society has a different institution.
Writing new year's cards is a Japanese institution.
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The institution of marriage is present in many cultures but its details vary widely across them.
The University of the South Pacific is the only internationally accredited institution of higher education in Oceania.
[…] these professors of Little Red Schoolhouse-education did not themselves remain in the isolated and handicapped little institution they glorify.
It is a common misconception […] that the American Mob began as an Italian institution transplanted directly from Sicily.
As both a social and a religious institution, the parish provided "the support and help" that the immigrants needed in the New World.
It was Murray's determination that finally motivated Nathan to agree to purchase the restaurant and convert it to the Coney Island-named institution, Nathan's Famous.
Who could be against reason, science, humanism, or progress? The words seem saccharine, the ideals unexceptionable. They define the missions of all the institutions of modernity—schools, hospitals, charities, news agencies, democratic governments, international organizations. Do these ideals really need a defense? They absolutely do. Since the 1960s, trust in the institutions of modernity has sunk, and the second decade of the 21st century saw the rise of populist movements that blatantly repudiate the ideals of the Enlightenment.
He's been in an institution since the crash.
Over time, the local pub has become something of an institution.
[quoting Giles Coren] "The Wykeham Arms [a pub] is destroyed. They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
She's not just any old scholar; she is an institution.
The institution of higher speed limits was a popular move but increased the severity of crashes.
Accordingly if we can show that a barbarous custom, like that of the priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere; if we can detect the motives which led to its institution; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally, in human society...
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