Sentence examples for positive institutions from inspiring English sources

Positive psychology, as "a science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions, promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless" (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).

In such places, positive institutions may provide a place where children can focus on education and their own needs rather than supporting their families.

Screening can be restricted to contacts or to patients that were previously hospitalized in CRE positive institutions.

Marriage was "a very positive institution", Mr Hague said, arguing there was "sufficient protection" in the bill for religious organisations who did not want to offer it to same-sex couples.

This historical and critical idealism, which the Posaune attributes to Hegel, was politically revolutionary: it affirmed the rights of free self-consciousness against any positive institution which could not justify its existence before rational thinking, against state, religion, and social hierarchy.

The song presented the point of view common to minstrelsy at the time, say critics, that slavery was overall a positive institution.

Second, while recognising that poverty and a lack of material resources may impact on a country's ability to develop and maintain positive political institutions, the aim of the duty of assistance is not to compensate for material lacks, to equalise levels of wealth across societies, or to permit continuous economic growth.

But now there have been positive turns, both institutions said last week.

Mr. Dollarhide said the government's sale plans could be seen as a vote of confidence in Citigroup, and as a positive for financial institutions.

A tightening up of admittance procedures, student monitoring, supervisory training and a move away from the single supervisor system towards a "supervisory team", are all positive moves that institutions have made in recent years.

In fact, there is a large consensus on the positive contribution of institutions to economic development and environmental quality.