It is 100% true that Congress is owned by the financial institutions lock, stock and barrel.
Most of the time, the two institutions are locked in an inconclusive war of attrition which makes it impossible for Pentagon strategists to use either of them effectively.
A fortified street that features the Canadian Embassy and the back entrance to the British Embassy, along with compounds housing other international institutions, was locked down briefly around noon.
Youths with psychological problems are ignored or overmedicated, classes are arbitrarily canceled, and inmates or whole institutions are locked down for days or weeks at a time because of recurring gang violence, according to the independent experts, retained by the state after it was sued two years ago in a class action brought on inmates' behalf.
"Our politics and our institutions are locked in past models that are increasing unfit for purpose," writes Ian Goldin, a professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford.
In the U.S., many religious institutions are locked in an acrimonious fight with the federal government over birth control that is set to go before the Supreme Court next month.
So even if you did see marriage as an institution to "lock down" both partners to the child-rearing process, wouldn't that be an argument in favour of extending it to gay couples?
He's in extreme security, so when he came out of his cell the whole institution was basically locked down.
The fact that the whole institution is still locked down usually means one thing: the ninjas are coming.
With regard to increasing returns, a high level of initial financial and technical investments into a particular institutional design locks an institution onto a particular path, even when subsequent inefficiencies emerge [ 19, 31].
