Sentence examples for universal institution from inspiring English sources

Universal outrage over Fifagate reflects the fact that football/soccer is fast becoming a universal institution (at least for the male half of the universe), creating some useful common reference points.

In the view of world history presented in the Shāh-nāmeh, Iran is at the centre of events, and Iranian kingship is presented as a universal institution.

Neil MacGregor, the British Museum's director, said the loan would reinforce the argument that the museum was a universal institution with global outreach.

This policy of fastening the church, a universal institution, into the Reich, with its well-defined frontiers, is usually associated with Otto I, but it gathered momentum only in the reigns of his successors.

The UN is supposed to be the a democratic and universal institution, one in which every nation has a vote, unlike the rich country-dominated IMF or World Bank.

For her, burial of the dead is a universal institution that transcends culture and even time itself: the "unwavering, unwritten customs of the gods … not some trifle of now or yesterday, but for all eternity".

A second fallacy is that these large, universal institutions were primarily to blame for the financial crisis.

But rather than unpicking the universal institutions that bind us together, they should just send an extra contribution to Revenue & Customs (who will accept cheques payable to "HMRC").

The headlines generated by such scandals threaten the very acquisitive enterprise of western museums; mounting demands for repatriation make more difficult the project of building "universal" institutions presenting the art and history of the world.

For instance, covered bonds, a form of on-balance-sheet securitisation that gives investors recourse to the issuer's balance-sheet as well as to the assets underlying the bond, are expected to benefit from the events of recent months.Oddly, in the long term much of this is rather good news for banks—or at least for retail and universal institutions.

"A second fallacy," writes Harrison, "is that these large, universal institutions were primarily to blame for the financial crisis.