Sentence examples for institutional purpose from inspiring English sources

David Popenoe, a professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers, once wrote, vaguely, that the "institutional purpose, and therefore the importance of the social institution in general, would surely be compromised by incorporating the marriage of same-sex couples".

"All of these agencies have other missions besides border security, so none has security as its core institutional purpose," the paper says, recommending a "single accountable agency".

In relation to the concept of institutional corruption, the second hypothesis states (as a necessary condition) that an action is corrupt only if it has the effect of undermining an institutional process or of subverting an institutional purpose or of despoiling the character of some role occupant qua role occupant.

In order to do so, any such infringement needs to have an institutional effect, e.g., to defeat the institutional purpose of the rule, to subvert the institutional process governed by the rule, or to contribute to the despoiling of the moral character of a role occupant qua role occupant.

Many of the ethical positions on marriage can be understood as divided on the question of whether marriage should be defined contractually by the spouses or by its institutional purpose, and they further divide on whether that purpose necessarily includes procreation or may be limited to the marital love relationship.

Indeed, internal conflicts can paralyse an institution to the point where it becomes incapable of pursuing its institutional purposes.

And the full Yves Saint Laurent name will continue to be used for "institutional purposes".

Specifically, institutional processes are being undermined, and/or institutional purposes subverted.

One residual question here is whether or not institutional role corruption could exist in the absence of the undermining of institutional processes and/or institutional purposes.

Perhaps it could not for the reason that an institutional role is defined in large part in terms of the institutional purposes that the role serves as well as the institutional processes in which the role occupant participates in the service of those institutional purposes.

In order to keep the financial transaction transparent, each of the program organizers has to go through rigorous documentation for both banking and their own institutional purposes.