"The Catholic Church is a pretty impenetrable institution, with neither the inclination nor a history of sharing any of its internal workings," said Walter V. Robertson, the editor of The Globe's investigative team.
They present a direct blow to Mr. Echeverría, 82, the oldest living lion of the authoritarian government that dominated this country for more than 70 years under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, as well as to the military, still Mexico's most impenetrable institution.
The idea is to make all this simpler and more accessible to disenchanted citizens complaining of distant and impenetrable institutions.
For the Greeks, the impenetrable "institutions" they have encountered, seemingly impervious to reason and answering only to their own mysterious laws, resemble the bureaucracy that breaks the spirit of Josef K in "The Trial".
AND so, at last, to Brussels, a city which has kindly offered up its name as a shorthand term for everything that is least popular about the European Union: waste, small-scale corruption, pettifogging bureaucracy, arrogant officialdom, impenetrable institutions.
In 1983 he began a four-year appointment as the Guardian's correspondent in Brussels, where he expertly disentangled the often near-impenetrable institutions of the EU, while contriving to make his assignment sound entertaining.
In the terrific and recent Vanity Fair story about Rao's -- "Welcome to Rao's, New York's Most Exclusive Restaurant" -- there was a photo of the famous French Connection detective, Sonny Grosso, at his weekly table at the very center of the "impenetrable New York institution where many would love to eat but almost none can get a table".
I have heard gripes at more than one prestigious institution about the impenetrable silos that separate departments and communities within the university.
In other words, the double standard that inspired and facilitated Mistressdom is an impenetrable block to a parallel institution of Misterdom.
For decades, the New-York Historical Society has struggled against the architecture of its own building, which conveys — in its cold grandeur — an institution that is insular, impenetrable and inscrutable.
Many see its institutions as undemocratic and impenetrable.
