70 Metaphors for institutions

We're doing all right now, our public buildings, our institutions are the best in Canada.

The whole institution is a model of neatness.

All those antiquated institutions, if considered from the point of view of modern international intercourse, are only a trifle in comparison with the legal prescriptions of Islâm concerning the attitude of the Mohammedan community against the parts of the world not yet subject to its authority, "the Abode of War" as they are technically called.

The principal institutions are, the Franklin library, which contains upwards of 20,000 volumes.

The old Southern ideas respecting slavery had disappeared, and that institution had become an object of idolatry, so that any criticisms to which it was subjected kindled the same sort of flame that is excited in a pious community when objects of devotion are assailed and destroyed by the hands of unbelievers.

The institution on a large scale, in its relation to the total number of whites, was a fact.

The first institution of consequence in this field was the Alexander High School.

" "Then sir," said the other, "you must think the whole institution is a nuisance generally.

Almost every good institution or enterprise on the island is the creation of Mr. Dabney.

This institution was peculiar in that the idea of establishing it originated with a southerner, a merchant of New Orleans.

How to deal with this terrible foe to all governments, all laws, and all institutions was a most perplexing question.

From the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, the institution of domestic slavery has been becoming more and more the abhorrence of the civilized world.

However, few states are ruined by any defect in their institution, but generally by the corruption of manners, against which the best institution is no long security, and without which a very ill one may subsist and flourish: Whereof there are two pregnant instances now in Europe.

The other institutions are, the University of Pennsylvania, a College, Medical Theatre, College of Physicians, Philosophical Hall, Agricultural and Linnean Societies, Academy of Fine Arts, and the Cincinnati Society, which originated in an attempt to establish a sort of aristocracy.

"We are worse off than our neighbours for the simple reason that it is the intention of the American system, which has been deliberately framed, and which is moreover the result of a bargain, to carry out its theory in practice; whereas, in countries where the institutions are the results of time and accidents, improvement is only obtained by innovations.

Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution.

Our religion was Protestant and English; our literature took root in English forms of thought; our free institutions were the outcome of principles which had been, and now are, influential in English politics; our common law was English, our traditions of liberty were English, and that union of liberty and law which makes us strong, we inherited from our English fathers.

This, indeed, might be suffered, because political institution is a subject in which men have always differed, and, if they continue to obey their lawful governours, and attempt not to make innovations, for the sake of their favourite schemes, they may differ for ever, without any just reproach from one another.

The Smithsonian Institution has been also a wise patron of this science, by its numerous publications, its lucid directions for observing meteorological changes, and the bestowal of standard instruments in large numbers to efficient and well-placed observers.

The institution, or revival, of the Order of the Nazarites was a religio-moral movement.

Another institution dating from this time is the gerrymander.

And hence, if, amid the intellectual darkness and debasement of the old polytheistic religions, we find interspersed here and there, in all ages, certain institutions or associations which taught these truths, and that, in a particular way, allegorically and symbolically, then we have a right to say that such institutions or associations were the incunabulathe predecessorsof the Masonic institution as it now exists.

An institution or a law is a means, not an end, a means to be used for the public good, to be modified for the public good, and to be interpreted for the public good.

FERRIAR was physician to the Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum; and the Royal Institution has been the area of the philosophical labours of DALTON and HENRY.

The first institution in America that distressed me was the steam heat.

70 Metaphors for  institutions