Sentence examples for institutional tension from inspiring English sources

The chaplain's position appears to be one that balances permanent institutional tension: Thus, while the prison as a 'total institution' (Goffman, 1961) and an apparatus transforming the individual (Foucault, 1993) follows a logic of total surveillance and security, religion and its institutionalisation via the right to freedom of religion limits this totalitarian ambition.

"There is always institutional tension between the legislative branch and the governor's branch," said Darrell Steinberg, the Senate leader.

That institutional tension is personified by two of Mr. Bush's top generals, David H. Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, and George W. Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff.

More precisely: How do they play out in situations of institutional tension?

"The flaws in responding to the emerging crisis on the day were rooted in institutional tension within and between organisations.

The paper takes a vantage point built on three countries – Sierra Leone, Somalia and Uganda – to interrogate CD from a perspective of state structures strained by institutional tension.

Finally, restoring the EU's democratic legitimacy means ending the institutional tensions between the eurozone and the broader union.

And the Times ended up publishing a piece in which the institutional tensions about just what the story should be are palpable.

NBC is alone among the traditional broadcast networks in having its own twenty-four-hour cable-news channel, which presents NBC News with a distinct advantage over its competitors, as well as inevitable institutional tensions.

She did not acknowledge failings, apart from the institutional tensions that have long plagued the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a culture that made it impossible for a succession of administrations to see the threat unfolding in front of them.

A visitor from outer space who tried to understand the American system from recent American cinema would learn something about the institutional tensions between, say, the F.B.I. and the State Department or the C.I.A. and the legislative branch, but not necessarily about the two parties whose rivalry is surely among the system's most salient real-life feature.