Sentence examples for a public function from inspiring English sources

NHS commissioning must be retained as a public function, rather than sub-contracted to private companies.

Halleck and Melendez also contend that administering a public forum constitutes a public function, meaning that constitutional protections apply.

Halleck and Melendez counter that administering a public forum constitutes a public function, meaning that constitutional protections apply.

In early 2009 Asō suffered another setback when his finance minister resigned after appearing at a public function seemingly intoxicated.

But another line of cases gives the states more leeway when they themselves are providing goods or services as a public function.

In ancient societies and even today in oral cultures, poetry has had a public function, as the repository of stories, genealogies, moral ideas and collective emotion.

Public or private legal persons without any legislative or administrative powers, but with a significant public function, following from two possible underpinnings:   a.

In short, he held for the Court that the First Amendment provides no "exemption from the ordinary duty of all other citizens to furnish relevant information to a grand jury performing an important public function".

Pepys was performing a unique public function.

And making people aware that they don't add up is a useful public function.

"The issuance of debt securities to pay for public projects is a quintessentially public function," Justice Souter said.