Sentence examples for vulnerable institution from inspiring English sources
The phrase "vulnerable institution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an organization or establishment that is at risk or susceptible to harm, whether financial, reputational, or otherwise. Example: "Due to recent funding cuts, the university has become a vulnerable institution, struggling to maintain its programs and services."
In the worldwide movement away from democracy, perhaps the most vulnerable institution is the free press, and the most disposable people are journalists.
In short, this story of a vulnerable institution in a spirited but depressed town is one of modest triumphs mingled with failures.
When the museum reopened in 2007 after a renovation, Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times that it was "a vulnerable institution in a spirited but depressed town" whose history was "one of modest triumphs mingled with failures".
Others said that a vulnerable institution could avoid the cost of buying the equipment by temporarily shunting its mail to one of many large sterilizing facilities that disinfect hospital supplies or products with such machines.
As "Debate Grows on Jury's Role in Injury Cases" shows (front page, Aug. 26), the civil jury system, which has served and protected us so well for more than 200 years, is today an embattled and vulnerable institution.
In the UK, the two most vulnerable institutions were seen as Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS.
Vulnerable institutions will be those unable to hold on to their A-grade students because of increased competition.
The more vulnerable institutions will be looking nervously at the higher education bill and the prospect of more competition in the form of a new wave of entrants the government says it wants to encourage.
Any issue that has Alan Greenspan and Paul Krugman on one side of the debate, and George Soros and Larry Kudlow on the other, is a sticky one indeed.But at this stage in the game, one thing that has to be considered is the effect of the threat of nationalisation on vulnerable institutions.
"We want new steps to boost reporting of hate crime and supporting victims, new CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] guidance to prosecutors on racially aggravated crime, a new fund for protective security measures at potentially vulnerable institutions and additional funding to community organisations so they can tackle hate crime.
Dodd-Frank aims to identify the most vulnerable institutions and practices.
