Sentence examples for institutions function from inspiring English sources

Our national institutions function.

"Surely the constitution is not meaningless; many institutions function, even if superficially, according to this document.

Uniting his diverse output was a propulsive desire to question -- and at times to subvert -- received wisdom about how social institutions function.

All male institutions function with an ideology that insists they are the crème de la crème and that this is a natural state of affairs.

She was very aware that there are prior dispositions which are needed to make market economics and democratic institutions function well: the habits of truth-telling, mutual sympathy, and the capacity to co-operate.

Quotes him at length on the nature of leadership and how whereas in the sixties Americans were concerned with others, now they focus on the economy and on how our institutions function.

And in emphasising the difficulties faced by people trying to keep depleted institutions functioning in a post-Thatcherite world, Hare comes close to sentimentality.

Within a few years, I had adapted to its weather's unpredictability: I stopped believing that institutions functioned in any reliable or useful fashion.

These institutions functioned for a short time only and disappeared with the suppression of the noncooperation movement.

By the 1960s and '70s several higher educational institutions functioned in the republic the Turkmen State University in Ashgabat, a teachers college, and medical, polytechnic, and agricultural institutes.

He maintains at one point that West Germany would have recovered without American assistance after World War II because the Nazis had been in power for only 12 years, so that the Germans retained the memory of how democratic institutions functioned.