Sentence examples for was institutionalizing from inspiring English sources
verb
To establish as a normal practice
Human rights activists spent Obama's presidency warning the White House that it was institutionalizing mass surveillance, drone strikes, indefinite detention and expanded executive power – all tools that risked disaster in the hands of a reckless successor.
But the audit, prepared this year for Afghanistan's central bank by the Kroll investigative firm, gives new details of how the bank instead was institutionalizing fraud that reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars and obliterated Afghans' trust after regulators finally seized the bank in August 2010 and the theft was revealed.
Massachusetts was institutionalizing huge numbers of poor children on Medicaid for emotional issues -- autism, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, for example -- who may have been treated more effectively through in-house care.
(Powell's son was institutionalized).
It seems like this corruption was institutionalized".
His mother was institutionalized in 1936.
Another sister was institutionalized for insanity.
He was institutionalized and died soon after.
(Malcolm's mother was institutionalized when he was thirteen).
Dawn's husband, mentally unstable, beat her and was institutionalized.
And he was institutionalized after his mother died?
