Sentence examples for static institutions from inspiring English sources

The existing literature mostly focuses on the comparison of static institutions; however, it overlooks how the changing institutional environments affect the performance of enterprises.

They are essentially static institutions run through a combination of technocratic central planning and political log-rolling.

Inspired by the work of Charles Darwin (1809 82), Wilson and others led a transformation of American political science from the study of static institutions to the study of social facts, more truly in the positivist temper, less in the analytic tradition, and more oriented toward realism.

First, marriage has never been a static institution.

Unlike what those opponents have claimed, marriage is not a static institution, but is instead one which has changed significantly through the decades.

This process of dynamic adjustment is crucial, for institutions that remain static in a changing society are unable to serve as agencies of evolutionary change.

The reliance on tradition is also highly selective: marriage has always been an evolving institution, not a static one.

"The institution is not static, but changing to the demographics of the changing neighborhood," Ms. Stein-Milford said.

They are institutions, noble but comparatively static.

Safe, perhaps (though not from paedophile priests and Scoutmasters and teachers, all of whom were protected by the institutions that employed them), but static, tedious and bogged down in Victorian morality, petty prejudice and small-mindedness.

Over the next six months, the curator will conduct his business from this transplanted work space, adding an element of live performance art to the institution's collection of predominantly static paintings, sculptures and installations.