Sentence examples for chief institutions from inspiring English sources
The University of Birmingham (1900), Aston University (1966), and Birmingham City University (1992; formerly the University of Central England) are the chief institutions of higher education.
In many ancient societies, the chief institutions (e.g., monarchies) and customs of the society were understood to be derivative from their prototypes or archetypes in the realm of the gods.
Three centuries ago the Commons called impeachment "the chief institution for the preservation of the government".
It is has been axiomatic for generations: the Palestine problem is the central issue of Arab politics, and of the so-called "Arab system" which - through its chief institution, the Arab League, embodying the collective will of 22 Arab states - is supposed to guard the higher interests and basic security of the Arab "nation".
The chief religious institutions of the Egyptian Diaspora were synagogues.
The most embarrassing revelations pointed to alleged misdeeds within the Vatican's administration and alleged financial mismanagement at its chief financial institutions.
Chief among institutions of higher learning is the University of Tasmania (founded 1890), which has campuses at Hobart, Launceston, and Burnie and since 2007 includes the Australian Maritime College, centred at Launceston.
While a merger of two of the city's chief cultural institutions has made sense to some, others have mourned the prospect of the museum's losing its independence.
Wall Street, street, in the southern section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, which has been the location of some of the chief financial institutions of the United States.
One is South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, near Brooklyn's chief cultural institution, the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Germany's central bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, which is the country's main financial centre and also the base of the European Central Bank, the EU's chief financial institution.
