Sentence examples for institution seized from inspiring English sources

The deplorable conditions at Willowbrook, a state-run institution, seized the nation's attention in 1972, when Geraldo Rivera, then a reporter for WABC-TV in New York, put a spotlight on them, showing children lying naked on the floor, their bodies contorted, their feces spread on walls.

Two financial institutions seized by government regulators in recent weeks belonged to media holding companies.

The additional population at first found living space in the grounds of the religious institutions seized during the Reformation by Henry VIII (after 1536).

Her agency has taken on the workman's regulatory role in this crisis of identifying undercapitalized institutions, seizing them and putting their assets in new hands.

Washington Mutual, the country's largest thrift institution, was seized as insolvent and sold for a fraction of its former value.

The rule also would allow, as required by the Dodd-Frank law, the government to "clawback" any compensation senior executives or directors received in the two years before an institution was seized, if it is determined they are "substantially responsible" for the failure.

These efforts were not always successful, however, and several Church-run institutions were seized, as were church funds.

So it's downright mystifying that the Justice Department keeps pressing a losing case against a financial institution that was seized in — are you ready?

Mr. Ali stood up for the police force, a widely reviled institution that has seized on Mr. Morsi's ouster as an opportunity to win back favor with Egyptians.

The Pritzkers, one of the nation's wealthiest families and heirs to the fortune created by the Hyatt hotels, agreed today to pay a record $460 million to the federal government to avoid being punished for the failure of Superior Bank F.S.B., the big savings and loan institution that regulators seized last summer.

Yet, no institution has yet seized the moment to draw a parallel between the Venus cycle, the conquest of Mexico and the precession of the Equinoxes.