Sentence examples for a curious institution from inspiring English sources

"It was ill considered from the start," he said, calling the office "a curious institution".

"Criminal Sovereignty" focuses not on proliferation per se, but on a curious institution within North Korea's government, usually referred to as Bureau No, 39.

This curious institution seems to be at once a working cattle concern and a full-scale broadcasting business from which Gene and his pals (including his longtime sidekick Smiley Burnett) send out a daily program of country-western songs.

It is an emergence, moreover, that bothers the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Alan Greenspan.Utah is home to a curious sort of financial institution known as an "industrial loan corporation" (ILC).

The bank at the time was a curious blend of regulatory institution and store of value, the latter taking the form of bullion kept in Switzerland.

Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride, of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.

Certainly, the institution is a curious one.

"The institution of marriage is a curious thing," she said, with a sad smile and a tilt of the head.

In a curious trend, some smaller, lesser-known cultural institutions are filling their halls more successfully than internationally renowned ones that rely heavily on tourism and school groups.

A firm's relationship with its auditors is, after all, a curious one: it pays the fees of the institution with the prime responsibility, in the first instance, for spotting any irregularities.

Thus began a curious back-and-forth between the artists and the broader institution which made demands without explanation and without ever engaging the artists directly.