institutionalist
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“That’s a fair point,” he says, but he insists he isn’t an institutionalist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
How has he gotten away with this, while maintaining his reputation as a genial institutionalist?
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
The institutionalist in him knows that, under the Constitution, the Senate’s power to confirm nominees is equal to a president’s in naming them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
Justice O’Connor was, above all else, maybe, an institutionalist.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2023
The stiff institutionalist is debarred by his theory from fraternising with many who should be his friends, while he is bound to others with whom he has no sympathy.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
Thomas didn’t specify whom he was referring to, leaving court watchers to wonder whether he had his own branch of government in mind, given that some other justices are often described as institutionalists or pragmatists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Because they are institutionalists, and as expected, President Biden and Kamala Harris have been emphasizing the need for civility and an orderly transfer of power.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
The event was also a chance for both Biden and McConnell, two 80-year-old Senate institutionalists, to show old-style deal-making can still exist in a partisan era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Mr. Darling’s fellow institutionalists, most of whom had endorsed the vaccines themselves, rushed to his defense.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
But Barry was wrong in saying they weren't institutionalists; they were.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
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