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institutionalises

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalise.

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Examples

  • Though the Act of Settlement remains a cornerstone of the British constitution, critics have long argued about its relevance in the 21st century, saying it institutionalises religious discrimination and male primogeniture.

    UK: Reforms would allow non-Protestant heir and end male priority 2008

  • I am not happy that any community in the UK can govern itself separately from the rest and have a "legal system" that institutionalises inequality.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Every day, even whilst this government is in it's death throes, the Left immovably institutionalises itself with such devastating success that one really can't believe there is nobody behind such coordination.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • The UN institutionalises the representation of governments critical of Israel much more than more ad hoc international fora where US and Israel's freedom of action is aparently less constrained by rules and institutions.

    NY-SEN: Hillary Opponent Demands She Prove Support For Israel By....Backing John Bolton 2009

  • Unfortunately, this latest formula for Utopia is wholly inimical to democracy, actively undermines or prevents countries from acting in their own national self-interest to defend their own citizens, institutionalises deliberately mediated injustice and even terror through appeasement policies instead of ‘just wars’ against tyranny and aggression, and is a recipe for more conflict rather than less as the people progressively rise up against this erosion of their powers of representative self-government.

    The suicide of American sovereignty 2009

  • Here I would strongly disagree- the society I want is one which institutionalises protection of individual rights, not one which leaves private power well enough alone.

    Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45 2009

  • Unfortunately, this latest formula for Utopia is wholly inimical to democracy, actively undermines or prevents countries from acting in their own national self-interest to defend their own citizens, institutionalises deliberately mediated injustice and even terror through appeasement policies instead of ‘just wars’ against tyranny and aggression, and is a recipe for more conflict rather than less as the people progressively rise up against this erosion of their powers of representative self-government.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Here I would strongly disagree- the society I want is one which institutionalises protection of individual rights, not one which leaves private power well enough alone.

    Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45 2009

  • The McGuffin here - the thing that everyone is after - is a smoking-gun Thomas Jefferson letter that supposedly institutionalises racism in the Constitution.

    Tom Alderman: Audio Book Review: Shadow of Power 2008

  • You cannot take one item from the range of items people buy and decide to artificially distort its priing because it has not increased in price as fast as other items...that is perverse and institutionalises Inflation

    Cameron Has NOT Accepted IDS'S Drinks Tax Proposals 2007

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