Sentence examples for defining institutions from inspiring English sources

Philadelphia lost many of its defining institutions, including The Saturday Evening Post, once the nation's leading magazine; The Bulletin, a powerful and venerable evening newspaper; the Pennsylvania Railroad, one of the first great routes to the West; John Wanamaker's department store, a pioneer of mass merchandising; and the Philadelphia Athletics, who made baseball history under Connie Mack.

That's the vision offered by Independence Day: the peoples of the world come together, buffeted by the essential inherent goodness of America's defining institutions of state, military, faith, and scientific know-how, to defeat the extraterrestrial hordes and usher in a new era of peace overseen by benign patriarchal, egalitarian leadership.

Champion represented the New York Protestant Council, the defining institution of the liberal establishment Church.

It won't stem the haemorrhage of public money into private hands, and for sure it will do nothing to salve this bitter experience of seeing the nation's defining institution under attack with no defenders, just the odd clutch of Labour MPs amassing like a Maginot line.

History of American Slavery Podcast by Slate – America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people.

"The Church was really a defining institution that would accompany the lives of French people from birth to death," says Sophie Gherardi, who set up Fait Religieux - a French religious affairs think tank.

"If the House of Representatives wants to be a defining institution in articulating a message, they have a golden opportunity in making Paul Ryan speaker," Weber said.

Polanyi defined institutions broadly as uniting, stabilizing, and giving structure to the economic process.

It remains comfortably above the 6% threshold that American regulators use to define institutions as well capitalised.

He defined institutions as the humanly devised constraints, such as the formal rules, established practices and social norms that shape incentives in economic exchange.

Even when these exhibitions were produced by minority curators and ethnically defined institutions, the prevailing narrow reading of multiculturalism -- the marketable version -- often dictated the results.