Sentence examples for were institutions from inspiring English sources
noun
A custom or practice of a society or community.
- The institution of marriage is present in many cultures but its details vary widely across them.
"These guys were institutions.
"These were institutions and high-net-worth individuals predominantly from outside the United States," he said.
Freddie the Fence, Herbie the Nuclear Physicist and Betty the Monkey Lady were institutions at Riverside.
As recently as the middle twentieth century, private universities were institutions with little direct social role, built on cloistral research and devoted to patrician cultural inheritance.
Some of Heller Ehrman's biggest clients were institutions that have been brought low by the financial crisis, including Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers.
As Young showed, long before the Winter of Discontent forever tainted them with militancy and public disruption, unions were institutions born of trust and common affections.
Most Better Image clients are institutions.
They are institutions, noble but comparatively static.
British universities are institutions to be proud of, not punished.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are institutions that are too big to fail.
Governments are institutions, communities are institutions, colleges are institutions, families are institutions, marriages and partnerships are institutions and our egos are our own personal institutions.
