(n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
(n.) Instruction; education.
(n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
(n.) That which instituted or established
(n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
(n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
(n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
(n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(3) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(5) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(6) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
(7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(9) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(10) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(11) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(12) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(14) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
(15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(16) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(17) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(19) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(20) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Workhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
(n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
(n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(2) Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' Read more I find the fact that the majority of workers at Shirebrook are agency staff troubling.
(3) Known in the small Welsh town of Llanfyllin as "Lonely Tree", because it stood in splendid isolation, bending to the prevailing west wind on a bare skyline high above the town, the huge, 200-year-old pine could be seen from the school, the church, the police station, the Victorian workhouse and many of the town's pubs.
(4) The absence of workhouses and the small number of street children would please you, and the lack of blatant prostitution in the Haymarket.
(5) "I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse.
(6) Then came The Workhouse Donkey , about municipal corruption, at the Chichester festival in 1963.
(7) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(8) Christ in a dole queue, Kris: no job in this rotten workhouse of a fiscal climate?
(9) Clegg's obsession with internship recalls Victorian philanthropy funding apprenticeships for the "deserving" workhouse poor.
(10) Almshouses not only included workhouses but provided comprehensive medical services.
(11) Shareholders are seeking to unseat Hellawell for presiding over a deteriorating financial performance and conditions at Sports Direct’s warehouse at Shirebrook that MPs have likened to a Victorian workhouse .
(12) The buildings are a mixture of old workhouse-type wards and modern purpose-built facilities.
(13) Wright said the incident had undermined the committee’s faith in Ashley’s promises to improve conditions at Sports Direct after the MPs accused him of running the company like a Victorian workhouse .
(14) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(15) Subjecting staff to workhouse conditions is not the way to build a successful business.
(16) Recently semi-pedestrianised Walthamstow Village has a 15th-century church and old timbered houses, almshouses nearly as old, and an engaging free museum in the former workhouse.
(17) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(18) Some plays: 1955 All Fall Down; '57 The Waters of Babylon; '58 Live Like Pigs; '59 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; '63 The Workhouse Donkey; '64 Armstrong's Last Goodnight; '65 Left-Handed Liberty.
(19) What I got was a workhouse | Daniel Lavelle Read more The tours come at a time when some cities are attempting to effectively outlaw homelessness.
(20) April A groundbreaking documentary series, States of Fear, by the Irish broadcaster RTE, exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.