Corporations have become central institutions that help organize our society.
France had no central institution with the authority to grant taxes for the whole country.
It was known that the world itself could not survive the destruction of its central institution.
During the later medieval period, (14th to 17th Century), marriage developed into a central institution for public life.
We must never forget that slavery has always been a central institution in Southern life.
It is the big States which are obtaining more power, those and the central institutions.
Some fear the loss of support of the city's central cultural institutions.
During the 1990s, there was no central organizing institution or ideology.
However one likes to think of law, it is a completely central social institution.
"We will not permit attacks on this important and central institution."