an introduction to legal study in ancient Rome, compiled by order of Justinian and divided into four books forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis
short for Institutes of the Christian Religion , the book by Calvin, completed in 1536 and constituting the basic statement of the Reformed faith, that repudiates papal authority and postulates the doctrines of justification by faith alone and predestination
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The five institutes’ revised outlook compared with a forecast of 4.8% they made last fall.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022
And whereas other institutes’ annual budgets go through the NIH director’s office, NCI submits an aspirational budget proposal directly to the president.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2022
The majority of the institutes’ activity may be benign, and it’s difficult to determine how much self-censorship participating institutions engage in, Smith said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2018
“Thus, anatomists were asked about the identity and fate of the bodies remaining in their institutes’ storage spaces,” Hildebrandt writes.
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2017
Dr. Amy P. Patterson, the institutes’ associate director for biosecurity, who presented the policy, called loss of funding “a fairly large stick.”
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2014
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