Sentence examples for old institutions from inspiring English sources

An astonishing number of old institutions survive.

"Old institutions cannot adequately oversee new practices".

The empire is gone and with it loyalty to old institutions and the union itself.

Leadership of the movement for political reform passed to new men who had no stake in preserving old institutions.

It's not an accident that all sorts of old institutions – the Labour Party, the BBC – had a really bad referendum".

Everybody else is just part of the discussion, which is very lively with or without the participation of big old institutions.

The European Union's recent follies make our creaking 200-year-old institutions look flexible by comparison.

But they are hardly the only critics taking aim at the half-century-old institutions.

How could century-old institutions like the Moody's Investors Service give their triple-A blessings to subprime junk?

In Britain, even in the 1700s, centuries-old institutions of the church and royalty provided visions of the past.

That wisdom fills the gaps in our own reason, as age-old institutions implicitly contain more wisdom than any individual could have.