Impersonal, unappealing

Usage examples of institutional.

This approach will require close collaboration among researchers, their institutional biosafety officials and committees, and providers of these agents.

If germinally anti-social persons are kept humanely segregated during their lifetime, instead of being turned out after a few years of institutional life and allowed to marry, they will leave no descendants, and the number of congenital defectives in the community will be notably diminished.

Parker was a heister by profession, an institutional robber who stole from banks or jewellery stores or armored cars.

On the contrary, as I will try to demonstrate in some detail, these impure terms that mark the difference between the literary and the nonliterary are the currency in crucial institutional negotiations and exchange.

The floor of the corridor was surfaced with a nonslip synthetic rubber material, and the walls were institutional green.

When the dogmas about Islam cannot serve, not even for the most Panglossian Orientalist, there is recourse to an Orientalized social-science jargon, to such marketable abstractions as elites, political stability, modernization, and institutional development, all stamped with the cachet of Orientalist wisdom.

In theory to allow children and adolescents undistracted time for their studies and premilitary training, although she suspected it was just as much a simple case of institutional inertia: the system worked well and nobody had reason enough to push for a change.

The institutional reforms which he favors all of them look in the direction of destroying what remains of judicial, executive, or legislative independence.

The long hallway down the center of the building opened to room after room of seafoam green walls, institutional gray linoleum tile floors, and rickety old beds that squeaked every time the side rails were raised or lowered.

I suspect that for Kraus religious and political affiliations, and such labels as revolutionary and reactionary, were external tokens and institutional manifestations of spiritual and moral commitments, and that shifts in his religious and political identification were efforts on his part to express those commitments in particular historical exigencies.

They were not altogether dissatisfied with the situation, being pleased to learn that their failsafe system worked, and they would, they assured us, see to it that he was given institutional care.

Soon after, a decision was made that Celia would telephone her institutional acquaintances next day and, if they seemed cooperative, the Research Department would take it from there.

In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his de-masculinization.

There would be no institutional memory at the television studio or newspaper or magazine about other, similar claims previously shown to be scams and bamboozles.

The flashlight your mother name-tagged with masking tape and packed for you special pans around the institutional room: the drop-ceiling, the gray striped mattress and bulged grid of bunksprings above you, the two other bunkbeds another matte gray that won't return light, the piles of books and compact disks and tapes and tennis gear.