They weren't crimes because the DCT didn't complete the act, and if he didn't complete the act, that meant simply that the CPA had once again functioned properly.
And if the conspirators were prevented from committing a crime, then that meant the CPA had functionedproperly once again.
The entire machinery set up by the Russian Revolution of March functioned to block the Congress of Soviets.
Below them the second siezd of the All-Russian Soviets boiled and swirled, and over their heads the Military Revolutionary Committee functioned white-hot, holding in its hands the threads of insurrection and striking with a long arm.
Gambling clubs functioned hectically from dusk to dawn, with champagne flowing and stakes of twenty thousand rubles.
Both religious and linguistic minorities had their own schools, which functioned within the public school system.
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Food Industry, as its name implies, has functioned in two major economic sectors and has also had substantial responsibilities in the field of distribution.
On the beautiful Place Bellecour two guillotines functioned day and night, but they were inadequate to the bloody task, and the citizens were mown down in batches on the Place des Jacobins.
He was slight and small, and he seemed to have no bones--nothing but articulations that functioned with equal ease in all possible directions.
He heard and answered Janet with a minor part of his being that functioned automatically.
Instead, it functioned as a governing body representing all of the merchants engaged in a particular trade, who traded individually or through a variety of joint-stocks invested under the general regulation of the company.
It may be that the adventurers sitting on the Virginia Council functioned also in the character of an executive committee for their fellows.
In the past, this same Long Division has functioned in the Brooklyn Bridge, in the Hoosac Tunnel, and Washington Monument, in the Simplon Pass, and in Eiffel Tower.
She would estimate justly and accurately the activities that functioned in this sort of behavior.
This vessel functioned fairly satisfactorily at slow speeds, but neither the form nor driving mechanism was suitable for the higher speeds required by modern practice.
According to official reports, she must have functioned fairly well when submerged.
It is reported that this vessel functioned quite successfully, but she was abandoned, and Mr. Waddington does not seem to have developed anything further.
What was the girl like whose actions functioned in courage and independence and harsh hostility?
Although rivals, both towns functioned in effect as a single port; Barnstaple and Bideford ships sailed from each other's wharves and occasionally the two ports were listed together in the Port Books.
Those lined with slip may havefunctioned as wash basins.
The defenders hadfunctioned like a single organism, forming a new semicircular line.
For the period of the war, the coal industry functioned as a cooperative public service.
Sometimes it left the forms of government severely monarchical and produced a spotty economic growth in the form of cooperative societies that functioned in response to the everyday bread and butter needs.
VI> Mythical nationality in the totalitarian regime thus developed a monolithic structure which functionedas the only ontological framework in which the individual may acquire his own identity, his selfknowledge and understanding.
A puppet government, seated in Athens, functioned in both Italian and German zones.
The truth is that they are all governmental agents whose duty it is to familiarize themselves with the details of every visitor's business.
This would explain the interval of several hours between the two attacks, which were no doubt the outcome of a single inspiration.
Chance hadfunctioned on the wrong side for his father.
Gower functioned in the salmon trade, in timber, in politics.
This kink of analytical reasoning was new to MacRae, and it kept him from entering whole-heartedly into the joyous frivolity which functioned in the Abbott home that evening.
The highest executive and administrative organ was the Council of Ministers, which functionedunder the direction of the prime minister.
Although it was not mentioned in the constitution, the Communist Party functioned as the supreme decisionmaking authority over and above that of the government.
It was set up with much the same organizational structure as the party and, in practice, functioned both as a youth political party and mass organization.
Until 1966 the Pioneers Organization functionedas an integral part of the UTC, but since that time it has been under the direct control of the party Central Committee.
The entire organization functioned under the direction of the minister of foreign affairs and five deputy ministers.
In early 1972 the organization functioned on the national level with an eight-member Secretariat, including the first secretary who is also the UTC chairman, and a bureau of twenty-one full and seven alternate members.
In practice it has functioned as a rump Central Committee when the latter is not in session.
It functioned to protect the legal rights of Diana and provide a copy of its report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Noblesse oblige never hadfunctioned at Belmont and they didn't expect it to start now.
A Literary Society and Dramatic Club functioned for years.
When not on the buffalo hunt or in winter camp these smaller groups of families, led by one or two of the minor leaders, functioned autonomously.
While they grouped into larger units for certain defined purposes, these units functionedonly during part of the year.
Before his dull brain had functioned to action an iron grip had him by the back of the neck.
Kitty was not able to explain that the Village is a state of mind which is the habitat of long-haired men and short-haired women, the brains of whom functioned in a way totally alien to all her methods of thought.
All the way across the land our railroad functioned in the recent ordeals through which it has passed--which of course is not saying that it could do this again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "functioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
