Word Finder - establishment

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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Since their establishment of the company in 1984, they have grown into a global business.

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The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.

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The firm celebrated twenty years since their establishment by updating their look.

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That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.

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Exposing the shabby parts of the establishment.

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(usually with "the") The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo. Also Establishment.

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It's often necessary to question the establishment to get things done.

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The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services).

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The cancer department has an establishment of 10 doctors and 30 nurses.

The establishment of schools for girls was first attempted in 1880.

The establishment of order in the town made the citizens happy.

Meanwhile he had been appointed physician advising on the establishment of a silk factory.

In 1908 a movement began for the establishment of Australia.

There was still the hunting establishment which Nicholas had enlarged.

The military establishment at the beginning of 1909 was represented by a small permanent force of about 1400 members.

The establishment of a post office in the town helped the town attract new businesses.

The economy was affected by the establishment of a land tax.

After the establishment of responsible government the main issue was how to tax the citizens.

My mother and several of my friends said they would help me with the establishment of a public library.

He describes the safe and happy establishment of the people in their own land.

Almost the only changes which can be called events are his successful establishment of a school at Lincoln.

I personally think the establishment of charitable organizations was driven by the same spirit that drove the creation of new businesses.

The old count had always kept up an enormous hunting establishment.

The establishment of the Napoleonic dynasty at Madrid was the actual cause which brought about the disturbances which were to end in separation.

The expansion of trade was due to the establishment of a boat route directly to the island.

Kossuth succeeded in granting them temporary emancipation, but the suppression of the War of Independence led to an era of royal autocracy which, while it advanced Jewish culture by enforcing the establishment of modern schools, retarded the obtaining of civic and political rights.

At Sant' Elisabetta is the bathing establishment.

But the battle of Benevento (1266) and the establishment of the dynasty of Charles of Anjou on the Neapolitan throne put an end to the Ghibelline predominance in Tuscany.

To favour the establishment of special industries, the governor-general was given power to authorize the introduction of foreign instead of French immigrants.

In 1883 a law was passed for the reorganization of the systems in force, and primary instruction was made compulsory for Europeans and Jews, whilst in the case of Mahommedans discretion in the establishment of schools was vested in the governorgeneral.

The antique lanterns that hang from the ceiling give the establishment the feel of times past.

This is an all-inclusive, non-smoking establishment.

This led to the establishment of podests, who represented a compromise between two radically hostile parties in the city, and whose business it was to arbitrate and keep the peace between them.

This ratification of the oligarchical principle, together with the establishment in 1311 of the Council of Ten, completed that famous constitution which endured till the extinction of the republic in 1797.

It would be difficult to say what branches of science had done most towards the establishment of this doctrine.

After acting as assistant in pharmacies at Quedlinburg, Hanover, Berlin and Danzig successively he came to Berlin on the death of Valentin Rose the elder in 1771 as manager of his business, and in 1780 he started an establishment on his own account in the same city, where from 1782 he was pharmaceutical assessor of the Ober-Collegium Medicum.

The establishment of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 gave her a constant vehicle for her writings, as did also The Independent of New York, and later The Christian Union, of each of which papers successively her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was one of the editors.

The welding together of the great Kosala kingdom, more than twice the size of England, in the very centre of the settled country, led insensibly but irresistibly to the establishment of a standard of speech, and the standard followed was the language used at the court at Savatthi in the Nepalese hills, the capital of Kosala.

It may be that in particular cases particular modes of cultivation disfavour the host; or that the soil, climate or seasons do so; but overwhelming evidence exists to show that the principal causes of epidemics reside in circumstances which favor the spread, nutrition and reproduction of the pest, and the lesson to be learnt is, that precautions against the establishment of such favoring conditions must be sought.

From the tenth voyage of the East India Company, commanded by Captain Best, who left England in 1612, dates the establishment of permanent British factories on the coast of India.

The Arctic voyages of Barents were quickly followed by the establishment of p u a Dutch East India Company; and the Dutch, ousting the Portuguese, not only established factories on the mainland of India and in Japan, but acquired a preponderating influence throughout the Malay Archipelago.

In 1884 he pleaded eloquently in the House of Magnates for the establishment of civil marriage, and in 1888 was Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Koloman Tisza.

In one instance the variation is so excessive that it fully justifies the establishment of a specific distinction.

Susa once more became a capital, and on the establishment of the Persian empire remained one of the three seats of government, its language, the Neo-Susian, ranking with the Persian of Persepolis and the Semitic of Babylon as an official tongue.

At the mineral baths of Ilidze near the city, where many Roman remains have been found, a hydropathic establishment was opened in 1899.

The only telescope erected in the establishment when he took it in charge was the transit instrument, and to this he vigorously devoted himself.

The investigation that brought about this result was probably the most laborious that had been made up to Airy's time in planetary theory, and represented the first specific improvement in the solar tables effected in England since the establishment of the theory of gravitation.

There can be no doubt that the establishment of the Norman power in England was, like the establishment of the Danish power, greatly helped by the essential kindred of Normans, Danes and English.

Its nature may differ widely according to the causes which have led to the establishment of the distinction between family and family in each particular case.

It is customary to ascribe to Offa a policy of limited scope, namely the establishment of Mercia in a position equal to that of Wessex and of Northumbria.

Since the establishment of the AngloEgyptian condominium (1899) the country has been thoroughly surveyed.

There is a large penal establishment containing over 700 convicts.

There has, however, been much activity since 1905 in the establishment of new educational institutions, notably technical and commercial schools, which are placed under the new minister of commerce and industry.

Of Speranski's plan only the establishment of the Imperial Council (January 1st, 1810) was realized in his lifetime.

The address in reply to the speech from the throne, voted after a debate in which abstract theories had triumphed over common sense, demanded universal suffrage, the establishment of pure parliamentary government, the abolition of capital punishment, the expropriation of the landlords, a political amnesty, and the suppression of the Imperial Council.

The most far-reaching of these reforms, carried in the first session of the third Duma, was the partial abolition of the communal and family ownership of land, which involved the establishment of a class of true peasant-proprietors.

He lost his place owing to a reduction of the duke's establishment, and for several years he lived obscurely; but by good fortune he succeeded in persuading Maria de Uceda, one of the ladiesin-waiting of Mariana, second wife of Philip IV., to marry him.

If the officer appointed by the Board of Trade should, after inspection of the railway, report to the department that in his opinion " the opening of the same would be attended with danger to the public using the same, by reason of the incompleteness of the works or permanent way, or the insufficiency of the establishment for working such railway," it is lawful for the department to direct the company to postpone the opening of the line for any period not exceeding one month at a time, the process being repeated from month to month as often as may be necessary.

The state commissions, since their establishment in the 'seventies and the 'eighties, had increased their functions and influence.