noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an established institution (=an official organization that has existed for a long time)
▪ The incoming prime minister was critical of many established government institutions.
correctional facility/institution/centre (=a prison)
financial institution
▪ All the big financial institutions cut their interest rates today.
venerable...institutions
▪ venerable financial institutions
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
academic
▪ He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources.
▪ None the less the connections with academic scholars and institutions were essential to programs at Hull House.
▪ There is a hierarchy of academic institutions that is founded much more on their social status than on their academic reputation.
▪ Virtually every academic institution, it seemed, wanted a piece of the pie.
▪ The University of Birmingham will be the first academic institution in Britain to offer a degree course in golf.
▪ Virtually all of them see their academic institutions as complex social worlds with competing pressures and multiple tasks and goals.
▪ Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based.
▪ Because fraternities are privately owned and run, they are for the most part beyond the jurisdiction of academic institutions.
cultural
▪ It is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions, but it rains there.
▪ That study is expected to document the role of cultural institutions in creating employment and attracting businesses to New York City.
▪ Until leasing prospects improve, property owners should donate the space to nonprofit groups and cultural institutions.
▪ Her style of leadership has angered both political parties and the cultural institutions with which she deals.
▪ Family formation and family building patterns are reflections of various socio-economic and cultural institutions, traditions and conditions of development.
▪ It is a cultural institution, no less important than the Hermitage or the Bolshoi Theatre.
democratic
▪ After Franco's death at the end of 1975, the overwhelming political preoccupation was the creation of new democratic institutions.
▪ Tolerance for democracy must be cultivated to reinforce our democratic institutions.
▪ Pateman also believes political obligation can not be given expression in the liberal democratic institutions.
▪ Prussia, like Britain, had a relatively long period of effective, legitimate government before the introduction of democratic institutions.
▪ Finally, Chapter 8 examines the comparative work on democratic institutions and democratic performance.
▪ Clearly the Community is not a democratic institution.
▪ The subject orientation in political systems that have developed democratic institutions is likely to be affective and normative rather than cognitive.
educational
▪ If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed.
▪ Those educational institutions that do not do so may be the subject of lawsuits.
▪ Near also aims to provide comprehensive information about any attacks on academics and educational institutions around the world.
▪ They also may become superintendent of a school system or president of an educational institution.
▪ Priests and laymen of all three religions organized educational institutions and missionary propaganda.
▪ It is the only educational institution in the world that teaches aesthetic appreciation primarily through an objective method of investigation.
▪ On Jan. 18, educational institutions were closed for the winter holiday a week early.
▪ The number of educational institutions does not meet the acute needs of the region.
financial
▪ We shall deal in turn with financial institutions and financial markets.
▪ The debt will be funded through a syndicate of New Zealand and overseas financial institutions.
▪ Credit rationing is unlikely to apply to all financial institutions.
▪ Companies must work with financial institutions to boost their ability to deal on a global basis.
▪ Profitability is the major aim of banks and most other financial institutions.
▪ Besides supervising financial services, financial managers in financial institutions may advise individuals and businesses on financial planning.
▪ Customers may be forced to borrow from inefficient banks or other financial institutions, probably charging higher interest rates.
▪ The buyers of these claims are often the financial institutions, who buy them in order to hold them as assets.
high
▪ A call for collaboration between the four Thames regions and higher education institutions is made.
▪ More than eighty higher education institutions now participate in this scheme.
▪ This is the model which is most appropriate for evaluation activities within higher education institutions.
▪ The 55 students were studying at 26 different higher education institutions.
▪ Moneyfacts, the savings and loan information group, selects the following best buys from high street institutions.
▪ The work tends to be geared towards managers in higher education institutions.
▪ Knowledge elites and technical elites are now emerging from our higher education institutions.
▪ The North has a positive disproportion of higher education institutions, and so the intellectual power of centres of research.
international
▪ Much of the expansion in solar energy has been funded with loans from international lending institutions.
▪ The budget allocates $ 19. 45 billion to State Department operations, foreign aid, peacekeeping and international lending institutions.
▪ This would involve the government in thinking about the need for new international institutions to oversee such a convention.
▪ They were also expected to meet in Sarajevo with officials from international lending institutions and local government officials.
▪ Their proffered remedy, accordingly, was to reform both international institutions and domestic political structures.
▪ Though more enterprising than the norm, such guests are increasingly frequent visitors to the World Bank and other international institutions.
▪ But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution.
▪ Many of us oppose not just these policies and the international institutions that enforce them.
large
▪ The integration of the specialist colleges of art into larger institutions like polytechnics also aroused apprehensions which added fuel to the flames.
▪ He transformed the Midland from a successful regional bank into one of the country's largest institutions.
▪ Some of the larger institutions have begun to explore new approaches.
▪ The increasing acquisition of land by large institutions reduces the number of holdings.
▪ Next, we have Walter impounded in a large mental institution with other inmates, played by real mentally handicapped people.
local
▪ There were also changes in the social and political structure that were not accommodated in existing local government institutions.
▪ Ohio has restructured its community college system so that no resident lives more than twenty minutes away from a local institution.
▪ But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.
▪ Stop in and say good-bye to another local institution.
▪ The university and other local research institutions have been a breeding ground for many of the new companies.
▪ Particularist feeling in the duchy of Aosta was hallowed by centuries of tradition and grounded in a firm foundation of local institutions.
▪ They became increasingly outspoken in denouncing noble domination of local government institutions, and the zemstvo taxes they had to pay.
▪ Rebuilding state and local public institutions is a long, complex business.
major
▪ The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control.
▪ We recognize and respect the family as the major investment institution that it is. 2.
▪ But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future.
▪ First, throughout history these major institutions were the primary sources of human values.
▪ Already 70 major financial institutions and several multinational manufacturing companies have established fund management arms there.
▪ In the meantime, major institutions were also granted the power to award their own degrees.
▪ The problem was they now wanted their languages accepted within a major social institution.
▪ There is no evidence that people had any more influence on the policies of major institutions.
mental
▪ Recently escaped from the state mental institution.
▪ Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.
▪ Subsequent investigation showed that Wingate had been interned in various mental institutions for the past seven years of his life.
▪ What movie do Brad Pitt and Willis watch in the mental institution?
▪ Next, we have Walter impounded in a large mental institution with other inmates, played by real mentally handicapped people.
▪ Crazy Rita is in a mental institution.
▪ The same goes for mental institutions and so forth.
national
▪ In short, the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house.
▪ Lobbying for government interest has meant the centralization of the process of decision-making in science in existing national policy-making institutions.
▪ The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions.
▪ The interaction of local government with national institutions and central government will be considered in Chapters 9 and 10.
▪ The Labour Court, a supposedly independent party, with national institution credentials, has delivered a knockout recommendation on Bank Assistants.
▪ The museum's own commercial activities, always criticised as unsuitable for a prominent national institution, have not been very effective.
▪ It is approved by the leading national institutions and organisations.
▪ The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions.
new
▪ The Midlands was the workshop of the world and his new institution became its banker.
▪ This would involve the government in thinking about the need for new international institutions to oversee such a convention.
▪ Yet the trust was a new legal institution, developed only in Augustus' reign.
▪ In another group of cases the courts grappled somewhat variously with a new institution.
▪ Rather than create a new institution, is it not more feasible to improve our existing one, the police?
▪ They had established new institutions, new parties, soviets, and unions.
▪ Begun in 1679, the new institution was opened on 21 May 1683.
▪ Any new institutions which may be established will, no doubt, be unique to particular situations and objectives.
other
▪ The effect of this, of course, is to shift the shortage of liquidity to other institutions, here the discount houses.
▪ As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism.
▪ Some assets, such as money lent at call to other financial institutions, are highly liquid.
▪ This would then stimulate other institutions to change their rates too, in order for them to remain competitive with the clearing banks.
▪ I think this participation is unique; so many other institutions lack this.
▪ Frequently Ruth wondered why he hadn't ended up in borstal or some other institution.
▪ A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership.
political
▪ Class interests are often regarded as playing a major role in the way political institutions develop.
▪ The United States' political institutions were in suspended animation.
▪ Can the Third World politically challenge the statusquo or are its political institutions similarly under-developed?
▪ Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime.
▪ Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do.
▪ If the churches are losing membership and income offerings, political institutions have suffered an even greater loss of confidence.
▪ Religious, educational and political institutions all play a part in the process of socialization and social control.
▪ But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.
private
▪ The family itself is a self-contained, almost private, institution - a world to itself.
▪ Technicians will be employed to develop educational and training materials for programs at all levels in public and private educational institutions.
▪ HENLEY-NEDERLAND Henley-Nederland is an independent, private institution and a recognised educational establishment.
▪ Oglethorpe was still a conservative, private institution ruled by those who were determined to keep it that way.
▪ Professional staff and institutional workers are exploited whether in government or private institutions.
▪ One advantage often cited is the choice of courses offered by private institutions and the individual attention that professors lavish on students.
▪ It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making.
▪ For this reason alone, it is not very popular with private state-sector research institutions.
public
▪ More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.
▪ Unlike City College, very few of these public institutions practiced selective admissions policies.
▪ In 1989, a government decree banned the creation of any new posts in public sector institutions and companies.
▪ Another argument for including cameras is that our public institutions must learn to accommodate them-selves to new technologies.
▪ With increasing, incompetent social engineering in schools and other public institutions?
▪ An increasing number of public institutions have attempted to do so, using a private sector discipline known as strategic planning.
▪ Other public institutions were put to the sword elsewhere.
▪ And yet traditional public institutions still offer one-size-fits-all services.
religious
▪ In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.
▪ Bishop Drausin founded several religious institutions, including a chapel for nuns who had taken ill and a monastery at Rethondes.
▪ But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.
▪ It comes as President Bush advances a plan to increase the involvement of religious institutions in solving social problems.
▪ The final obstacle was a disagreement between Shas and Mafdal over the distribution of funds to their client religious institutions.
▪ It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church, as well as to other religious institutions.
▪ Here, they drew on Hegel's account of religious doctrines and institutions as symbolic objectifications of that spirit.
social
▪ Here we need to rely on our social scientific knowledge about our own legal and social institutions.
▪ As a social institution, marriage transcends all individuals.
▪ The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.
▪ They put more social and economic institutions into motion.
▪ Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient.
▪ Any careful cost-benefit analysis will show that every social practice and institution has limitations and presents difficulties as well as opportunities.
▪ In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history.
▪ Language is a social institution of a kind; and self-evidently it is open to all sorts of change.
young
▪ Campsfield House, a former young offenders' institution has been refurbished for the Immigration Service.
▪ Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
▪ Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders' institution for robbery.
▪ So far, he's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution.
▪ There are at present opportunities to undertake agricultural and horticultural work in the open air at 23 young offender institutions.
▪ Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months, both in a young offenders' institution.
▪ The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
▪ They say the centre, to be based at a former young offenders institution, will treat refugees as criminals.
■ NOUN
education
▪ On the other hand, there were grave limitations in using existing adult education institutions for radical education and action.
▪ A call for collaboration between the four Thames regions and higher education institutions is made.
▪ More than eighty higher education institutions now participate in this scheme.
▪ In its second phase, a number of the techniques will be tested within a selected number of Higher Education institutions.
▪ This is the model which is most appropriate for evaluation activities within higher education institutions.
▪ Anyone with experience of floppy disks and education institutions will realise the problems inherent in this scheme.
▪ The 55 students were studying at 26 different higher education institutions.
▪ The work tends to be geared towards managers in higher education institutions.
research
▪ This is normal procedure inmost research institutions.
▪ They recognize that co-operation between industry and research institutions is beneficial in raising productivity and enhancing competitiveness.
▪ It is rapidly becoming one of those elite research institutions some academics are looking for to improve the quality of research.
▪ His sights also are set on putting Clark Atlanta University on the global map as a research institution.
▪ The objective is to re-position the University as a strong teaching and research institution.
▪ Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
▪ The university and other local research institutions have been a breeding ground for many of the new companies.
▪ These networks connect universities and research institutions at data transmission speeds ranging from 64 kilobits per second to 2 megabits per second.
state
▪ Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations, or even to activity around state institutions such as local government?
▪ This is a private hospital, not a state institution, and your sister committed you with-out any stipulations as to time.
▪ Yield-enhancing innovations are usually the only ones available through the network of state institutions.
▪ There was no point in being a mere political reformer intent on changing laws and state institutions to make social conditions better.
▪ But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.
▪ Clergy have a prime role in setting up schools and a favoured position of direct relationships with the appropriate state institutions.
▪ The military first came to power in 1962 and abolished all state institutions in 1988.
■ VERB
create
▪ Rather than create a new institution, is it not more feasible to improve our existing one, the police?
▪ So perhaps another way to foster a more sustainable gay culture would be to create institutions that promote intergenerational interaction.
▪ An appropriate ranking is achieved by creating two sets of institutions.
▪ Modern selfhood is created and regulated by institutions, child-rearing, and ongoing socialization that enforce the modern order.
▪ By the end of the century, architects, accountants and engineers had all created their own professional institutions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a financial institution
▪ A major study of women and heart disease is being carried out by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
▪ Children in these institutions do not receive good care because the government cannot afford it.
▪ Church leaders are meeting this week to discuss ways of preserving the institution of marriage.
▪ the institution of marriage
▪ The change in the law has been welcomed by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.
▪ Tokyo University is the most important educational institution in Japan.
▪ Trading in ivory had become an institution in this part of Africa.