It was instituted in 1983, at the height of the AIDS crisis.
The adapted course is set to be instituted in high schools nationwide this fall.
Sterling refused her check and instituted eviction proceedings.
Both have instituted cuts on the order of 20 percent for every household.
He proposed keeping the ferry that had been instituted after the subway connection was knocked out.
It need hardly be said that a searching inquiry was instituted.
This style of promenading has been instituted by the young lovers of Southern towns.
This hospital was instituted in 1745 for sick and lame patients.
Immediately, as if nothing but her eye had prevented it theretofore, the search was instituted.
All these actions are instituted by them; these bonds are all in their hands.
1510s, "purpose, design," from institute (v.). From 1540s as "an established law." The sense of "organization, society" is from 1828, borrowed from French Institut national des Sciences et des Arts, established 1795 to replace the royal academies, from Latin institutum, neuter past participle of instituere.
early 14c., "to establish in office, appoint," from Latin institutus, past participle of instituere "to set up," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + statuere "establish, to cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (see stet). General sense of "set up, found, introduce" first attested late 15c. Related: Instituted; instituting.
