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How to use the word function in a Sentence? Page #6

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I think we need to be ready to move quickly from the early groups to add in the second and third tiers of groups. I think the prioritization serves an important function, it really does matter for those most at risk to get vaccinated first, and for health care workers to get vaccinated first, and I think opening it up, and where there is personnel available to vaccinate a larger group of people, and there are vaccines available, we shouldn't be holding back, especially if the demand from the earlier groups is starting to slow.

– Marc Lipsitch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's an America where the rules around race and gender and class are fundamental, and they shape and impact people's everyday lives. It's also an America where we function under a particular sense of amnesia.

– Alicia Garza

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our short-term markets don't seem to be able to function without a very significant government backstop. We need to fix it.

– Jeremy Kress

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Being disabled: Being able to function properly is usually a gift to most people but some people have to work very hard for it, they have to earn it, it's more of a reward then a gift, and some people are disabled, handicap, and they won't ever be able to function properly no matter how much they want it, no matter how hard they try, so don't ever squander it, don't ever abuse it, always be respectful for what you have, don't ever take what you have for granted and never misuse what's been given to you.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
4 years ago

These are a collection of prewritten programs, modules that developers can incorporate into their own applications that will help with a discrete function — for example, drawing a shape, or encrypting text. Things like that, little prewritten programs that are shortcuts for developers.

– Dorian Daley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need to know full information about the president and vice president to both permit the nation to function and to know what is going on when an election is imminent.

– Arthur Caplan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're going to make sure that the ability to function going into the election is not adversely affected, i don't share the concern, the President's concern... and, in fact,( Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin), in discussions with( Nancy Pelosi), had already indicated the administration is prepared to spend up to $ 10 billion just to make sure the post office is on good terms going into the November election.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That first face transplant served me very well, and when it started to fail I just knew from experience that a face transplant gives me the comfort and function I want and need on a daily level -- that I'm going to live a better life with a face transplant.

– Carmen Tarleton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That is a function of wealth and mobility as opposed to density, many people who could leave did, and have not yet returned.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

– Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

– Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All of these things are really interconnected in terms of their function. All of them are connected to the body clock, the body is like an orchestra where there's an orchestra leader that's sort of the main timer, but everybody else is playing it together and they're optimizing what they are doing.

– Meir Kryger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Back then, Japan didn't have as many supermarkets or vending machines as it does today. Shoppers bought drinks at mom and pop stores, so Otsuka made an effort to reach out to people and familiarize them with Pocari's taste and function.

– Kiyomi Kai

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Too often, we prioritize work and social events over our sleep, when we don't receive adequate sleep, we do not function at our peak and we increase the risk for poor health outcomes.

– Neil Kline

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When a child is anxious or fearful, the parts of their brains responsible for attention, thinking, and learning just aren't able to function as well, teachers might find that some kids are more distractible, seemingly disengaged, not understanding the material as easily, or even easily annoyed or more emotionally reactive.

– Neha Chaudhary

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have to give those people their voices back. Historically speaking, people are interested in presidents and Your First ladies, but what about behind those closed doors ? Who are the people that really make the White House function and operate ?

– Matthew Costello

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After allowing tens of thousands of protesters to peaceably assemble in the same city, in the same area, without any of the safety precautions and measures we have taken, he is seeking to deny a political Party's critical electoral function that should be equally protected under the constitution.

– James Dickey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am shocked. I am very surprised that a person accused by a woman of rape has been appointed Minister of the Interior, in any European democracy, there are guarantees offered to victims so that they can speak out without fear, whatever the function and whatever the social status of the people they denounce. It sends a scary signal to my client.

– Marjolaine Vignola

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Based on emerging data from studies like this, we are now able to clarify sex differences in dementia risk, combining these findings with my clinical experience, I have seen greater impact on visceral fat on memory function in women, likely mediated by metabolic pathways.

– Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

– Alan Barth

added by Normando
4 years ago

Rituals in general serve a calming function, they distract the mind which might otherwise go down one of those rabbit holes of useless worry, and they give us a sense of influence or control over something that may not be ultimately controllable.

– Ryan Bremner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The reality of what you're seeing in Georgia today is a function of the Covid situation in large part. We did lose many polling places because it's summer time so schools are closed, churches opted out, VFW halls opted out, in Fulton County specifically, they lost 40 locations and collapsed many of those locations into mega precincts which saw a lot of those amazingly long lines.

– Gabriel Sterling

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When these kinds of mental exercises are taught to people, it actually changes the function and the structure of their brain in ways that we think support these kinds of positive qualities, and that may be key in producing the downstream impact on the body.

– Richard Davidson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you think about it, it's realistic that we could shut down ALK and reduce ALK function to see if we did stay skinny, aLK inhibitors are used in cancer treatments already. It's targetable. We could possibly inhibit ALK, and we actually will try to do this in the future.

– Josef Penninger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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