Sentence examples for revered institutions from inspiring English sources

Seedy, inept and captured by fat cats: one of Britain's hitherto revered institutions seemed hardly better than an investment bank.To hear Lord Hall refer to that grim time, you might think the BBC's very existence had been in doubt.

It is all too human to want to look for an easy way out, to protect revered institutions and ourselves, and to convince ourselves, as it is plain these scout leaders did two decades ago and more, that silence could somehow be best for all concerned (in the words of one leader, from a letter quoted in The New York Times, "If it don't stink, don't stir it").

"For instance two of the most, I guess, revered institutions in America would be the university system, which is superb, and also our military," Carter said.

Give it a few years and I'm sure we'll rip those revered institutions to shreds and besmirch their good names, just as is happening right now, elsewhere in the country.

In the current study, the authors reference reports from revered institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Toronto General.

But we also do not like politicians messing with the nation's most revered institution.

They say that although they own a house together, have joint bank accounts and are equally sharing the responsibilities of parenthood, they can not enjoy the benefits of society's most revered institution.

Depending upon whose hindsight one accepts, the Tisch legacy at CBS is either that fiscal sanity and accountability were brought to bear upon a lax, spendthrift corporate culture or that a myopic obsession with controlling costs inflicted irreparable harm upon a once revered institution, CBS News. (Tisch cut thirty million dollars from the news budget).