Sentence examples for a mainstream institution from inspiring English sources

4) The Nation of Islam NOII) has created a mainstream institution in the US and provides an antidote to fundamentalism.

For a mainstream institution to devote a high-profile concert to the complicated interaction between American and Latin American pop is still something of a rarity.

While the nature of the choreographic disagreement was not publicly revealed, it may illustrate the strains that are bound to surface when an avant-garde artist meets, and tries to adapt his style to, a mainstream institution.

It is when Edmondson is considered in the light of a mainstream institution like the Modern, in fact, that the insider-outsider dichotomies that have gathered around him and other so-called self-taught artists turn instructively paradoxical.

But if there is a renaissance among the female cast members, there's also a sense of something missing, a quality that may simply be impossible to wedge into a mainstream institution like "Saturday Night Live" -- a show that began as the vanguard of humor, but lost that role long ago.

Unlike the loan sharks of yesteryear, with links to the mob and reputations for brutality, the "prestamistas," as they are known here by the Spanish term for moneylender, often constitute a mainstream institution, financing everything from bodegas to discos for the poor and the middle class alike.

In their haste to rustle up an audience, mainstream institutions have not quite grasped the implications of all this, which is why they keep trying to flatter the vast, anonymous masses by inviting them in.

Persuading pals to join his school's 13-member board was "much, much easier than it would have been convincing them to give half as much to, say, a mainstream cultural institution," he said.

On another level, the exhibition, "Art in the Streets," has fueled a 40-year dispute about the nature of graffiti and the appropriateness of a mainstream arts institution, like the Geffen Contemporary wing of MOCA, conveying legitimacy on an activity that some people see as nothing short of vandalism.

Mohammed Al Khatib, who helps to lead weekly marches against the route of the security barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, told the audience that this screening and discussion was the first time in seven years of popular struggle that his group had received an invitation from a mainstream Palestinian institution.

He said science fiction had lost its fringe status: "It is very strange and striking that when I was a teenager it made me an outcast and a nerd, I was a prime geek and now I'm director of a mainstream cultural institution and doing shows at the Barbican.