Sentence examples for past institutions from inspiring English sources

Historiography in the modern sense the analytical ordering and interpretation of past institutions and events is an invention of ancient Greece, and even there it only gradually eschewed the fabulous.

In the past, institutions that wanted to expand across state lines were forced to apply for a charter in the new state, thus causing them to sift through that state's regulations and adjust their practices accordingly.

In the past, institutions and collectors only acquired photo or video documentation of performance art.

(4) Can we give an estimate of the overall confidence we can have about statements about the past, about the features of past institutions, structures, and actors, and about the explanatory relations among them?

For example, Vietnam's Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) evolved from a series of past institutions.

In the past, private institutions have been largely exempted from debates over the rightful use of affirmative action, and race-based admissions.

As the group whipped past neighborhood institutions — the Trini Breakfast Shed, advertising hot roti; the Botanic du Roi Salomon, selling religious knickknacks — the pastor and the politician followed on foot.

In the past, Ivy League institutions have taken real leadership roles in higher education — whether it was Princeton many years ago under Woodrow Wilson, or Harvard in the '30s, or Yale in the '60s, they led change that was fundamental.

They will select their clients on the basis of merit rather than cronyism or bribery, of which state banks (as well as some private banks) in poor countries have often been guilty in the past.Sound institutions will be able to protect their deposits and attract new ones.

In Episode 2, our designers and experts postulate the future of nightlife design by looking at past stalwart institutions such as Limelight, Studio 54, Mudd Club, Area, and Palladium.

I was standing in the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians hours past the institution's normal 5 45 p.m. closing time, gazing up at a Kwakwaka'wakw mask squeezed between a sprawling display of totem poles.