Sentence examples for taking on institutions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Giddens is also taking on institutions, including banks like JPMorgan Chase, that received customer money in the chaotic days before the firm went under.

He applies his libertarian worldview to the Internet and has taken on institutions like the United States government and Apple for threatening to curb the free exchange of information on the Web.

He is not a Marxist as the Mail alleges – he wants to reform capitalism, not abolish it – but in his willingness to take on institutions such as the Mail, he is the sort of Labour leader his father might grudgingly have approved of.

She took on institutions of the patriarchy and put them in flames the Church, the business suit.

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That path meant becoming an institution, taking on a board of directors, lots of financial responsibility and a good deal of pressure to produce.

Educating Rita Set on the cusp of the 1980s, Educating Rita was renowned for its spirited take on institution, class and pretence.

Taking on important challenges within your institution can, in moderation, cause your peers to think of you as the kind of colleague they'd like to have.

For everyone who does this kind of work, where you're taking on powerful institutions, the responsible posture to take is to assume they're monitoring your communications.

Debt collectors are planning ways to hit back against online consumer forums allowing people to share advice about dealing with debt problems and taking on financial institutions.

Indigenous activists Gary Foley and Tony Birch – both esteemed historians – have blazed the trail on the nomenclature issue, successfully taking on major institutions, not least Melbourne University, over dedication of bricks and mortar to eugenicists, radical assimilationists, the thieves of ancestral remains and other assorted bastards.