Sentence examples for conception of institutions from inspiring English sources

Note that on this conception of institutions as embodied structures of roles and associated rules, the nature of any institution at a given time will to some extent reflect the personal character of different role occupants, especially influential role occupants, e.g. the British Government during the Second World War reflected to some extent Winston Churchill's character.

For example, my ability to think certain things possible will be a function of my conception of the social institutions of my society.

At the heart of the case "are two competing conceptions of the institution of marriage, and of its central purpose," Cooper declared.

On the other hand, minimalist conceptions of the institution of government might stop short of advocating a major role for government in applying principles of distributive justice in the wider society.

According to this conception of SAT, organizations and/or institutions can contribute to the development of the overall community through two components: social capital and collective identity.

And this Islamic speculation about the accountability of the self and the nation puts him in mind of a recent visit to Monticello, where "what was so astounding for me about Jefferson, in contrast to Robespierre, say, or any of the Arab revolutionary leaders, was the systematic manner in which he went about putting flesh and bones on the conception of liberty by building free institutions".

The court's error came from a "diseased root: an exalted conception of the role of this institution in America," Justice Scalia said, referring to the court itself.

Anarres has become a place without authoritarian institutions or a conception of private property, while Urras has many states and ideologies, broadly reflecting the various alignments of the cold war period in which the book was written.

For the opponents propounded a theocratic politics guided by Scriptural interpretation and supernatural metaphysics accessible only or especially to (philosophical) theologians, in contrast to the secular conception of the state and its subsidiary institutions (such as the judiciary and the universities) proposed by Pufendorf and Thomasius.

This paper looks at how the sixteenth-century theoretical conception of physical signs not only shaped the diagnosis and treatment of the pox but also reflected the overall organization of institutions.

The rent strike movement presents an opportunity to create a community within – and between – institutions that rejects the conception of the university as some kind of business.