Sentence examples for a functioning rule from inspiring English sources

The violent methods the politicians use become the modus operandi of their period in office, and the whole political system is corrupted.Mr Collier observes that elections begin to pay dividends to society only when they occur in a system of checks and balances, with a functioning rule of law: "As with elections and reform, democracy is a force for good as long as it is more than a façade".

"If there was a functioning rule of law in this country, it would have been canceled long ago.

"If there was a functioning rule of law, then he would be punished even more severely," said the girl's mother, Sultana, wearing a traditional all-covering burqa.

Section 4 examines the market outcome when some customers decide to form a coalition (a buyer group) and thus act strategically by submitting an aggregate demand function, whereas the seller continues to submit a supply-function rule as the only selling method with all customers, either inside or outside the group.

We then analyze both the incentive to create a group through the strategic impact of its members' demand on the market price, and the seller's strategic reaction of offering bilateral contracts the KAM strategy to the customers grouped rather than a supply-function rule as occurs with independent buyers.5.5

In this set-up, we assume the seller has minimal marketing tools consisting of a supply-function rule.4 We also assume that independent customers behave as price-takers, taking the industry price as given, since they are sufficiently small to have a negligible impact on such price.

A state S of each node i at any time instant t (denoted as S i (t)) is determined according to a Boolean function (rule) and the states of its input nodes at the previous time instant t−1.

You institute a "no bodily functions" rule at the dinner table.

This paper presents the functioning rules of the bioreactor operation monitoring system and collecting of measurement data during the experiments.

Fukuyama's latest book, The Origins of Political Order, maps the unwieldy period "from prehuman times to the French revolution", and lays out his three prerequisites of stable democratic systems: a functioning state, the rule of law and accountable government – which is a pretty good prism through which to view the Arab spring and its aftermath.

Proponents of this model contend that world politics is democratic to the extent that each sovereign state is internally democratic with a functioning government and rule of law.