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Example sentences for "national institution"

  • The Bank of Scotland is a National Institution, with a certain National obligation.

  • It's a National Institution, with National obligations, ye ken?

  • It is no question of pounds, but a question of the honour of a National Institution, a question of the lives and happiness of hundreds of widows and orphans, a question of the honour of a name which I hold as dear as you hold yours.

  • In October, 1800, the Consuls decreed that the National Institution of the Industrious Blind should be united to the Hospital of the Quinze-vingts, together with the soldiers who had lost their sight in Egypt.

  • It alone makes slavery a national institution, a national crime, and all the people who are not enslaved, the body-guard over those whose liberties have been cloven down.

  • It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life; adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.

  • It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life, adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.

  • Ought a national institution to be the private property of aliens?

  • He expressed his sincere regret at the necessity which compelled him to intrude upon the House, and to express his opinion on the bill, and his indignation against this persecution of a national institution.

  • We concede that slavery is not "a national institution.

  • Mr. Sumner deems it necessary to refute the position that slavery is a national institution, in order to set the world right with respect to the relations of the Federal Government to slavery.

  • But no one, so far as we know, has ever deduced this obligation to protect slavery, in this respect, from the absurd notion that "it is a national institution.

  • It would be hardly too much to say that also the house of Crosse and Blackwell is a national institution, and that Mr. Justice Darling is a national institution.

  • By all means let us count the brothers Murray as a national institution, even as an Imperial institution.

  • At the North it was felt that repeal would in effect make of slavery a national institution, and rob the anti-slavery sentiment of the benefit it had secured by consenting to the admission of Missouri and Arkansas as slave states.

  • Talk," he continued, "is a national institution; but it does no good for the slave.

  • They knew that to avoid the charge that would certainly be made against them, of having seceded in order to make slavery a national institution, they must be careful not to exhibit such intentions in their Constitution.

  • A sub-treasury has no interest of this kind, and in that particular alone presents an immense advantage over any bank depositories, whether a national institution or a selection of local banks.

  • The most important contests of all are the stone and club-fights, which are a national institution, approved by the Government and patronised by everybody.

  • The practice of having concubines is a national institution and of the nature of polygamy.

  • The habit of drinking more than is proper is really a national institution, and what with over feeding, drunkenness, and other vices it is not astounding that the upper ten do not show to great advantage.

  • He is now a national institution, with the merits, the defects, and the popularity which belong to national institutions.

  • Each and all make Slavery impossible as a national institution.

  • A popular belief at this moment makes Slavery a national institution, and of course renders its support a national duty.

  • These were maintained by the constant assumption that Slavery was a national institution, entitled to the protection of the Nation, while those who opposed them were denounced as Sectionalists.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asked about; barrier reef; best advantage; especially important; good look; national bank; national banks; national committee; national education; national election; national highway; national honor; national importance; national income; national independence; national industry; national life; national policy; national politics; national prosperity; national security; national service; national sovereignty; national spirit; national wealth; slight hollow