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  • verb Present participle of institute.

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Examples

  • Obviously, the president's -- the president is spending a lot of time with Arne Duncan and with others in instituting some of the most sweeping and dramatic educational reforms that we've seen in a generation.

    White House addresses Michelle Rhee's departure Mike DeBonis 2010

  • Which is actually the less insulting interpretation of this: the other is that the NYT is using the specter of a possible failure in instituting health care rationing to justify retreating from Afghanistan …

    Obama compared to… LBJ? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • No reporter asked the council people why they would be interested in instituting such a plan, but you can guess their answer would be along the lines of, * in order to fight child obesity any way we can*, or, * to bring families together through physical education* ... you know, it's all about the children ... blah blah blah.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • What would happen in instituting a military draft:

    Sound Politics: To Draft or Not to Draft 2006

  • Still, some have been successful in instituting call-to-shock measurement, and the survey shows that, with a few exceptions, they are the cities with the highest survival rates.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Do you think that the sorts of programs that politicians are talking about these days, like educational testing and national standards, could be helpful in instituting a return to rigor?

    Back to School 2001

  • Do you think that the sorts of programs that politicians are talking about these days, like educational testing and national standards, could be helpful in instituting a return to rigor?

    Back to School 2001

  • And he would be pleased, I'm sure, by the action of the Bank of Sweden in instituting a new prize in

    Michael Smith - Banquet Speech 1994

  • The intention of Alfred Nobel in instituting the Nobel Prizes in his will was undoubtedly to promote peaceful relations among nations.

    Eisaku Sato - Nobel Lecture 1974

  • They [the White House] thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it. ” In his latest op-ed, Novak fails to address this issue, and states simply that Plame†™ s “role in instituting her husband’s mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger. ”

    Think Progress » Novak Backs Off Pledge To ‘Reveal All’ 2006

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