Sentence examples for institution part from inspiring English sources

Moot court is a funny institution, part debate club and part "American Idol".

The setting is a seemingly benevolent, somewhat sinister educational institution, part public school, part orphanage, which bears the name of a famous Tory politician and has adopted a version of Harrow's "Forty Years On" as the school song.

For these productions the theater becomes its own hybrid institution: part temple and part freak-show tent, wherein paying customers can see a living, breathing member of the breed that has been cursed and blessed by incredible fame — and preferably incredible physical beauty as well.

Strolling around Oxygen's hangar-size office on Ninth Avenue and 15th Street, Kit Laybourne, the director of animation and the husband of Oxygen's co-founder Geraldine Laybourne, called the space, which he helped conceive, part learning institution, part nourishing community, but basically "a digital sweatshop".

Like Rand McNally, National Geographic is a peculiarly American institution, part public agency (with its official expeditions and articles by government authorities), part academic journal (published by a society of experts), and part high-minded mass entertainment (naked photographs of dusky maidens).

"Equally, they've got to have cognisance of the fact that we're talking about a huge institution, part of the fabric of the Scottish nation as well as Scottish football, and everybody realises that.

Kings Park was one of the island's four giant state mental institutions — part farm, part warehouse — that treated hundreds of thousands of patients from New York City.

In 2003, the state shifted its focus from technical colleges to community colleges that would be bridges to four-year institutions — part of an effort to increase college attendance, which trailed the rest of New England.

At the startup phase, it seems more appropriate to approach those institutions part of whose mission, or enlightened self-interest, is to help projects like this get off the ground.

I am proud of the fact that this program was at a public university which is able to have top-notch graduate programs and research institutions (part of the reason I cut them a check every year).

The Fed is at once an independent institution and part of the government.