No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
Happiness should be a function without any parameters.
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
