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Meanings of social institution in English

Type of public institution.

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        Usage of social institution in English
        1
        Under the studio system, Hollywood leaders made the industry a social institution.
        Reuters
        2
        This heralds the official end, in Ireland, of University as social institution.
        The Irish Times
        3
        This is a purely social institution, which the members themselves maintain.
        The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
        4
        These unostentatious gatherings of friends about our fireside were a delightful social institution.
        James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
        5
        The Family.-Thisis the earliest and most primitive social institution.
        Studies in the Life of the Christian: His Faith and His Service
        6
        An army is not really strong unless it is developed from a social institution.
        Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
        7
        The hive structure is more than just a social institution.
        Soulless
        8
        The speaker explained the great significance of marriage as a social institution from time immemorial.
        Level 7
        9
        Every social institution of the Celtic peoples was in the beginning only an extension of the family.
        Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
        10
        The only social institution which might really prove beneficial in a University is an informal evening salon.
        From a College Window
        11
        We interpreted Christianity as altogether a social institution, its social side entirely overlapping and hiding the religious.
        Life of Father Hecker
        12
        Christianity, then, not only seeks an ideal family; it makes the family the ideal social institution and order.
        Religious Education in the Family
        13
        But simply because it is one thing to understand, in ideological terms, that a social institution is unjust.
        Changer of Worlds
        14
        The school is a social institution whose functions are becoming daily more widely understood and more clearly defined.
        Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training
        15
        They have no right to spoil what can be the most agreeable social institution that civilization has evolved.
        As We Were Saying
        16
        He was revolving the Bois, not as a definite tract of park land, but as a social institution.
        On the Stairs
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