When he promulgated reforms and enlisted a number of Europeans in his service, did he intend that the reforms should become realities, or that the European officials should exercise the functions nominally intrusted to them?
The Khedive now announced that Arabi had been suspended from his functions as Minister of War.
The Company of Clothworkers still guard the silver yard-stick which is the standard for all English and American measures, and other companies possess and exercise similar public functions and authorities.
It will thus be apparent that, though the members of these companies are self-elected, they are by no means unworthy of the public trusts and functions which under royal charters they still exercise.
From this day to our own they have grown richer, while their functions as cleansers and inspectors of spices have slowly become obsolete.
His face, to which in the exercise of his austere functions he had managed to give the immobility of marble, reflected the most cruel agitation; while his eyes betrayed the inward agony of his soul.
Although possessed of qualifications for his office so numerous and valuable, he was tremblingly distrustful of his own abilities and exercised his terrible functions with diffidence and hesitation.
They now sent Richardot to say that neither the Archdukes nor the King of Spain would interfere in the matter, and that they hoped the King of France would not prevent the Emperor from exercising his rightful functions of judge.
Although a native of Utrecht, he was competent to exercise such functions in Holland, a special and ancient convention between those two provinces allowing the citizens of either to enjoy legal and civic rights in both.
The Sémaphore is an ugly but utilitarian thing, and the wireless telegraph has not as yet supplanted its functions in France.
The crop and the gizzard of the ostrich are not separated as in other birds, but are joined; the upper part of the stomach performs the functions of a crop and the lower part those of a gizzard.
The feathers of a bird are the most highly developed form of protective covering in animals, serving other important functions in addition to the primary one.
It is only through an understanding of these functions that we can prepare ourselves to correctly recognize, and successfully treat, or prevent, such diseases as may involve the organs of generation.
Catarrhal inflammation of the intestine and intestinal parasites may obstruct the bile duct, and interfere seriously with the functions of the liver.
Because of its physiological influence over the functions of the kidneys, intestines, and body in general and the varied functions that it possesses, it is frequently affected by functional disorders.
In order to be able to understand the meaning of the many symptoms or signs of disease, we must possess knowledge of the structure and physiological functions of the different organs of the body.
Altogether there are ten pairs that are devoted to functions connected with the head, either as nerves of the special senses or in a motor or sensory capacity (Figs.
The different body functions are interfered with; the urine is retained, bloating occurs, respirations are slow, pulse weak and temperature subnormal or normal.
Their rules regard two things particularly--the religious and the social functions of the guild.
An altar was set up in the open air, at which he said mass, Francis performing the functions of deacon.
That event precipitated the crisis: Brother Elias had been for five years exercising the functions of minister-general with the title of vicar.
But perhaps below the Areopagites, obliged by their functions to pronounce sentence, there is place at the famous tribunal for a simple spectator who has come in by accident.
Let the podestàs, governors, and those who are placed in authority, exercise their functions with mercy, as they would be judged with mercy by God.
In April of the same year, when Cæsar returned to Italy, devoured with the longing to see St. Francis again, he commissioned Celano to execute his functions until the arrival of the new provincial.
He is, however, responsible to his people for the due execution of the royal functionsin the choice of ministers, etc.
I am highly satisfied with the manner in which you have fulfilled your functions as deputies.
They were the first to shake that authority which their functions made it a duty in them to respect.
These variousfunctions should be united in the Bureau of Forestry, to which they properly belong.
But for the courts to arrogate to themselves functions which properly belong to the legislative bodies is all wrong, and in the end works mischief.
The proposition involves no new principle, but permits the efficient discharge of public functions now inadequately performed or not performed at all.
But more insidious and far-reaching in its constitutional effects was the practice by which the governor's executive and administrative functionswere restricted.
The assemblies, which had thus so largely taken to themselves the functions of government, claimed to declare the rights and defend the interests of the people.
The directing influence was usually in the hands of the great planter who combined the functions of merchant and country gentleman, lawyer and politician and social leader.
This power to enforce its laws and to execute its functions in all places does not derogate from the power of the State to execute its laws at the same time and in the same places.
What functions can they perform if they can not use force?
It is their duty to obey the legal instructions of those upon whom that authority is devolved, and their best public service consists in the discharge of their functions irrespective of partisan politics.
These appropriations are required to keep in operation the general functions of the judicial department of the Government, and if this part of the bill stood alone there would be no objection to its approval.
The functions of the special deputy marshals now provided for by law being executive, they are placed under the authority of the well-known chief executive officer of the courts of the United States.
We hold it to be an incontrovertible principle that the Government of the United States may, by means of physical force, exercised through its official agents, execute on every foot of American soil the powers and functions that belong to it.
This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government--legislative, executive, and judicial.
The suspension of these necessary functions in the orderly administration of the first duties of government for the shortest period is inconsistent with the public interests, and at any moment may prove inconsistent with the public safety.
To fit me for church on Sunday and other functions of civilisation he took Ewing (as counsellor) and myself to a tailor's and plunged enthusiastically into the details of my outfit.
And the old man whose clothes and functions we had assumed lay cold and stiff in the little lonely room with candles at his head and his feet.
In spite of their relatively unimportant functions the "outer tanks" must, of course, be accessible from the upper parts of the vessel.
If that once ceases to fulfil its functions correctly, then you are absolutely "at sea.
The flesh of the Christian is, in some manner, associated to all the functions of its soul, and is the instrument of all the graces of God.
At this meeting it became a real Classis, not fully developed as a Classis in a mature Church, but possessing the constituent elements and performing the functions of a Classis.
Then it is competent to perform all the functions of a Classis.
For example, it must not usurp functions if they can be more appropriately decided upon, managed, and financed by the private sector or by State and local governments.
Where government functions are needed, they have been streamlined, through such landmark measures as the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
The functions of the two beings differ accordingly: the god receives the prayers of the community and has power to grant them; the fetish has power to grant the wishes of the individual who owns it.
There is nothing in any of the functions of man, in any of his capacities, or in any of his properly understood desires that has the slightest reference to any life but this.
The structure of a dead animal will tell us what its functions were when living as certainly as though we had the living animal in front of us.
Discussing ethics while leaving out social life is like discussing the functions of the lungs and leaving out of account the existence of an atmosphere.
The treatment of states of mind as functions of the brain and the nervous system is a common-place of medical practice.
Our knowledge of man commences with him, as does our knowledge of any animal, as a body possessing certain definite functions of which we call one group mental.
While the mental functions are products of the individual organism, the product, mind, is more than an individual product.
Each man speaks in virtue of the functions of vocal expression, but also in virtue of the social need of communication.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "functions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
