7038 examples of institutions in sentences

It was paying a great compliment to public opinion to attribute to it the power derived from free institutions and to expect from satisfied curiosity the serious results of a control as active as it was minute.

It is an instrument of restraint which has been in use for centuries and even in many of our public and private institutions is still in use.

My attendants, like most others in such institutions, were incapable of understanding the operations of my mind, and what they could not understand they would seldom tolerate.

Perhaps persons who have relatives among the more than a quarter of a million patients in institutions in this country to-day will find some comfort in this fact.

They had been deterred by that inbred dread of seeing a member of the family branded by law as a mental incompetent, and, to a degree, stigmatized by the prevailing unwarranted attitude of the public toward mental illness and the institutions in which mental cases are treated.

In all institutions those confined in different kinds of wards go to bed at different hours.

As is usual in these institutions, all knives, forks, and other articles that might be used by a patient for a dangerous purpose were counted by the attendants after each meal.

There are several methods of restraint in use to this day in various institutions, chief among them "mechanical restraint" and so-called "chemical restraint."

Indeed, very troublesome patients (especially when attendants are scarce) are not infrequently kept in a stupefied condition for days, or even for weeksbut only in institutions where the welfare of the patients is lightly regarded.

XVIII The State Hospital in which I now found myself, the third institution to which I had been committed, though in many respects above the average of such institutions, was typical.

Though private institutions are prone to shift their troublesome cases to state institutions, there is too often a deplorable lack of sympathy and co-operation between them, which, in this instance, however, proved fortunate for me.

Though private institutions are prone to shift their troublesome cases to state institutions, there is too often a deplorable lack of sympathy and co-operation between them, which, in this instance, however, proved fortunate for me.

In fact I talked incessantly, and soon made known, in a general way, my scheme for reforming institutions, not only in my native State, but, of course, throughout the world, for my grandiose perspective made the earth look small.

Though excited I was good-natured and, on the way to my new quarters, I said to the doctor: "Whether you believe it or not, it's a fact that I'm going to reform these institutions before I'm done.

Physically he was a fine specimen of manhood; morally he was deficientthanks to the dehumanizing effect of several years in the employ of different institutions whose officials countenanced improper methods of care and treatment.

That the environment in some institutions is brutalizing, was strikingly shown in the testimony of an attendant at a public investigation in Kentucky, who said, "When I came here, if anyone had told me I would be guilty of striking patients I would have called him crazy himself, but now I take delight in punching hell out of them.

If the men in this State whose business it is to run these institutions cannot manage you, I am at a loss to know what to do."

I have said much about the obligation of the sane in reference to easing the burdens of those committed to institutions.

During the last week of December I sought ammunition by making a visit to two of the institutions where I had once been a patient.

An exquisite light-heartedness, an exalted sense of wellbeing, my pulse, my weight, my appetiteall these I observed and recorded with a care that would have put to the blush a majority of the doctors in charge of mental cases in institutions.

Nor can there be any doubt that the coming of the Loyalists hastened the advent of free institutions.

The French Canadians, on the other hand, had not been accustomed to representative institutions, and did not desire them.

System of literary institutions in this country.

New institutions; new schoolbooks.

[Illustration] [Footnote 2: In some of the larger institutions of the country the teacher will have convenient apparatus at his disposal, and a room specially adapted to the purpose of experiments.

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