Any proclivity to depreciate the dignity or to undermine the influence of these institutions must be carefully examined and, if necessary, sternly repressed.
In the first, the typical economic institutions are the manor and the gild; in the second, domestic manufacture and convertible husbandry are predominant; and in the third the factory system and capitalist farming take their places.
Though he thought it his duty to be a Liberal, when he gave himself a holiday, so to speak, from party feelings, what he reverted to was almost exactly the Standard attitude towards the great institutions I have just named.
The want of a religion is unquestionably one of the most imperious cravings of our nature, especially where laws and institutions are yet in their infancy.
In Germany, all good institutions soon fall asleep, and new brooms alone sweep clean; here it is quite otherwise.
It is certainly one of the most beautiful institutions of the Catholic religion, that some churches stand open day and night to all who long for communion with Heaven.
Can anybody wonder that such institutions have frequently goaded the unhappy people to despair and rebellion?
According to the ancient institutions of the country, there exists a class of soldiers, thinly scattered through all the principal towns, called the King's guard.
In addition there is a multitude of institutions organised to deal with the youthful offender, variously known as juvenile asylums, protectories, training schools, etc.
On the other hand in very large institutions an unexpected danger has arisen.
The plan has not been widely adopted, however, and theinstitutions are generally organised as schools.
Some of the institutions are in effect prisons, with walls, bars and guards.
Institutions for the control and discipline of delinquents under sixteen years of age exist by the score.
The purposes of such institutions may be stated as the following: to inculcate respect for authority and create the habit of obedience; to impart the rudiments of education, to form habits of industry, to impart moral instruction.
In most of the British colonies, the prison system so nearly resembles the system of the mother country, that I have not given their institutions any separate and distinct description.
For the purpose of avoiding this danger, the newer institutions are organised upon the "cottage plan.
Nevertheless, it can be said without fear of contradiction that the institutions for the training of juvenile offenders are more successful than any other part of the disciplinary and penal systems of the United States.
These contemplations, sweetening the remnant of my days, will animate my prayers for the happiness of my beloved country, and a perpetuity of the institutions under which it is enjoyed.
It is probable enough, that although these alleged causes of jealousy and alarm are known to be groundless by the state banks, the proposition against re-chartering the bank addresses itself to those institutions in another way.
Some of those institutions have borne the most disinterested and unequivocal testimony in favour of the bank.
If, however, in spite of all these considerations, the power of these institutions be thought too great, and too liable to abuse, then there is no more effectual way of weakening it than by diffusion.
The highly wrought principles and moral maxims, which abound in the writings of the lawgivers and philosophers of China, have been sometimes cited to prove the existence of a superior system of institutions and laws.
Their ideas on matters of administration and on political economy, their principles with regard to institutions and means of government, were totally opposed.
In all other countries, in Germany, England, Italy, where institutions like ours do not exist, works of this character are better done and far less costly than in France.
Clousier, "there you touch a great question, which ought to be studied: How to find institutions properly adapted to repress the temperament of a people!
Now comes the question, Does the State gain through these institutions the better doing of its works of public utility, or the cheaper doing of them?
To make happiness depend on the stability, intelligence, and capacity of all is not as wise as to make happiness depend on the stability and intelligence of institutions and the capacity of a single head.
To every American, sympathising with these sentiments, it must be interesting to visit such a rural little city as Ripon, and find populations that cling with reverence and affection to the old Saxon institutions of Alfred.
Institutions and customs older than the cathedral are kept up with a filial faith in their virtue.
Museums, galleries and public institutionsof art are exclusively visiting places.
Would Christ, had he lived longer, have created something analogous to the Buddhist sangha, a community not conflicting with national and social institutions but independent of them?
I am far from saying that this depreciation of the cloistered life is just in either case but any impartial critic of monastic institutions must admit that their virtues avoid publicity and their faults attract attention.
How long his special institutions lasted we do not know, but no one acquainted with India can help feeling that his system of inspection was liable to grave abuse.
The greatness of the position which he won and the importance of the institutions which he founded naturally caused his disciples to formulate the vague traditions about his predecessors.
First that its pessimistic doctrines and monastic institutions are, if judged by ordinary standards, bad for the welfare of a nation: second that more than any other religion it is liable to become corrupt.
Buddhist institutions as his model in rearranging the ascetic orders of Hinduism, and his philosophy, a rigorously consistent pantheism which ascribed all apparent multiplicity and difference to illusion, is indebted to Mahayanist speculation.
First, early institutions were narrower and more personal than those of to-day.
These years of glorious history have exalted mankind and advanced the cause of freedom throughout the world, and immeasurably strengthened the precious free institutions which we enjoy.
Never has there been seen in the institutions of the separate members of any confederacy more elements of discord.
In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without.
Half a century, teeming with extraordinary events, and elsewhere producing astonishing results, has passed along, but on our institutions it has left no injurious mark.
The devotion to and concern for our institutions are deep and sincere.
So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
Upon the same principle that they would refuse to form a perpetual union with Texas because of her local institutions our forefathers would have been prevented from forming our present Union.
Among other schools there is a Royal Seminary for girls, scarcely more than a name, a free school of sculpture and painting, and a mercantile school, with a few private institutions of learning.
The existence, almost under the shadow of the flag of the freest institutions the earth ever knew, of a government as purely despotic as that of the autocrat of Russia is a monstrous fact that must startle the most indifferent observer.
Havana contains numerous institutions of learning: a Royal University, founded in 1733, a medical and law school, and chairs of all the natural sciences.
After some fifteen years of successful existence the society has become one of the institutions of the metropolis.
The other class of institutions includes what are known as "reformatories.
Each of them has sent out thousands of inmates into the world of human society, with whatever impress the life, teachings, and associations of the institutions could make upon their natures, as a preparation for their after career.
This requirement does not seem to be so germane to the spirit of our institutions as the other.
It will be a dangerous, a most dangerous experiment, to hold these institutions subject to the rise and fall of popular parties, and the fluctuation of political opinions.
The most numerous class of these institutions consists of prisons, in which to confine men for terms specified by the trial courts as penalties for their offenses.
The question of further restricting immigration to the United States by an educational test gains in importance from the alleged impairment of American institutions and standards by immigration.
It affects not this college only, but every college, and all the literary institutions of the country.
I was acquainted with many philanthropic institutions and societies already existing in Moscow, but all their activity seemed to me both insignificant and wrongly directed in comparison with what I myself wished to do.
They find here the mature growths from which their institutionshave sprung.
The patriarchal system, which was all but universal twenty years ago, and is only now beginning to yield to more modern institutions of life, tends to foster the passions of love and hate.
A more descriptive title for it would be, Origins of the Religious Institutions of Israel.
JED, thus bringing together into one volume all that was preserved about the history down to the conquest of Canaan and all the various institutions and collections of laws which were attributed to Moses.
These two institutions were the Consulship and the Senate.
Never have institutionsof learning and charity under religious direction been so numerous.
It turns over immediately to the communes and to lay institutions all the property of the Church.
It destroyed the monarchy and all the institutions of the ancient regime, merely because they were associated with the Catholic Church, whose destruction was their main object--a means to an end.
Every one knows that the godless scholastic institutions devised by Paul Bert, Ferry, and Jules Simon are repugnant to the nation, and have been a complete failure.
For this purpose the throne and all the institutions of the ancient regime, some of them very excellent, were all overthrown.
For there were certain wise men and judges of equity who composed and publishedinstitutions of civil law, by which they settled the suits and contentions of disputants.
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, are institutions for the care of old and distressed soldiers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "institutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
