Sentence examples for strange institution from inspiring English sources

As I was saying, Black History Month has become a rather strange institution.

By Hilton Als August 12, 2008 As I was saying, Black History Month has become a rather strange institution.

While Black History Month officially started a few days ago, TV programmers, Broadway producers, book publishers, and other toilers… As I was saying, Black History Month has become a rather strange institution.

The question posed on the ballot paper is about whether the country should stay in the European Union, and it is the workings of that strange institution, so far as any voter understands them, that should be under scrutiny.

The bank has become a locus for worries about the business model of these strange institutions at the heart of the German financial system, the seven Landesbanken.Set up to support the post-war economy, Landesbanken are a decidedly statist element of Germany's mixed economy.

Even the fatalistic Turks, skeptical of Westerners' enthusiasm, couldn't help admitting that this strange art institution was awesome.

But even those who are not fans of Mr. Robinson's routine have come to think of him over the years as a strange, benevolent institution at their station, just as inseparable from it as the subterranean must or the long, steep escalators.

The Stasi kept four million files on citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, said Jochen Hecht, the head of the archive department of the strange government institution called the Federal Custodian for the Files of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic.

In the end, they used a strange, dusty institution called the 'humble address' to pass the contempt motion – by 321 votes to 299.

"It is such a strange and odd institution.

Above all I agreed to take part because it was a way of actually showing the public what a prison was like - without the interference of the prison service's paranoid press office - and revealing that strange and perverse institution as redundant and largely ineffective in dealing with the issues that these young offenders came into prison with.