Sentence examples for harsh institution from inspiring English sources

"I was neglected and abused in a harsh institution when I had the option of love and a family life with my foster mother in England," O'Brien said.

After four years on Helgøya he was transferred to Bastøy school home for maladjusted boys, an equally harsh institution.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny formally apologises for the Irish state's role in the Magdalene laundries - harsh institutions in which "troubled women" were forcibly detained and made to work without pay between 1922 to 1996.

Even many leading Republicans don't want to discuss the classic cultural issues that defined them for so long, recognizing them as toxic to their future, realizing that the younger generations simply don't believe in the harsh institutions and repressive dogmas of yore.

It's true that I can be very harsh on these institutions and on those who run them.

And in this harsh economic environment, institutions that feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and train jobless workers are acutely feeling the crush of an increased demand for their services as their funding sources dry up.

Many employ a cross-cultural comparative methodology, seeking significant correlation between a childhood experience and adult institutions; for example, they look for a correlation between father absence and the harsh male initiation rites thought necessary to counteract strong maternal identification.

The Clifton team was actually made up of players from Johns Hopkins, who were unable to play as their school due to the institution's harsh opinion on football.

Such wariness is informed by immigrants' previous experiences with authoritarian regimes and by European governments' institution of harsh measures parallel to the hotlines such as searches, deportations, and detentions.

From the look of the trailer, he's right the digital iPhone footage seems to complement the film's mood nicely, adding a hard, lifeless edge to the institution's harsh fluorescents, but it doesn't look low-budget.

The four artists, whose 2012 resignations from the MOCA board transpired over four days, have given different reasons for their departures, which collectively and individually were a harsh blow for an institution whose motto, "the Artist's Museum," is emblazoned outside its Grand Avenue headquarters.