Time is a shelter, an escape into safety and regeneration, a repository whose chief function is not piling up the past, intact yet dead, but rather keeping it alive and available.
For those who believe a bookstore's chief function is not serving good cappuccino, London is the capital of browsing.
And he succeeded because of his mastery of a very traditional form of politics: stitching together a coalition of vested interests that stretches all the way from the teachers' unions to the trial lawyers.Mr Davis is not just a machine politician: he is himself a political machine, whose chief function in life is to run for office.
The chief function of a watch, you might assume, is to tell the time, accurately.
Lawmakers' ability to perform their chief function — to adopt a budget — would be severely limited.
Its chief function, though, is as a "big window into the building," said the designer, Edwin Schlossberg.
While e-Portfolios are certainly valuable learning tools [ 37], their chief function is to keep a record of the student's own work, and for students to reflect upon their learning.
Biological materials are typically multifunctional but many have evolved to optimize a chief mechanical function.
With a new $10 million gift from American Express, Mr. Bloomberg's chief function will be to raise the additional $155 million needed for the project.
In contrast, plasmatocytes constitute the major class of hemocytes and their chief function is in phagocytosis, engulfing apoptotic corpses formed as a result of embryonic tissue development.
