Sentences with phrase «hallowed institution»

Bush v. Gore changed everything I thought and many of us thought about that hallowed institution: the United States Supreme Court.

The One Show Summer Art Competition 2014 is now open and amateur artists living in the UK have the chance to exhibit their works in the same hallowed institution which has played host to past great British artists such as Constable, Gainsborough and Turner.

The eccentric and fiercely anti-establishment Smith, who died in 1989, would be shocked to find his work not only no - longer - underground, but permanently ensconced in this hallowed institution, in a room with works by Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Lee Bontecou, Bruce Conner, and others.

The party said, «The APC hereby condemns this action and views it as an attack on our democracy and a desecration of the hallowed institution of the National Assembly.

Critics have questioned whether an option - type quarterback — a black kid from the Deep South, for goodness» sake — is suited to lead this hallowed institution on the gridiron.

When a society's most hallowed institutions stand so seriously accused, we must be concerned.

It is contemptible that New York State continues to safeguard the well - being of predators and their hallowed institutions, over our children.»

And his axe threatens other hallowed institutions.

Friedman argued that the nation needed to scrap its historic commitment to local public schools and replace these hallowed institutions with a system in which parents could use public funds to send their children to «private for - profit schools, private nonprofit schools, religious schools or even «government schools,»» a derogatory term corporate education reformers use to describe local public schools.

Not exact matches

They will fight for us on the Internet and from the hallowed halls of institutions of learning and advancing civilization, of interdependence not separatism, of building bridges with other faiths, not destroying them.

Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all - powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term — the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the «unchangeable» Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron - fisted control.

Against all odds, the resolve of a storied institution to scramble a decade's hallowed eggs has reworked a venerable recipe into a tasty new dish.

Marriage is one of the most hallowed and revered institutions in our society.