The Court of Session has absorbed the functions of certain ancient courts the Court of Exchequer, the Admiralty Court, the Teind (or Tithe) Court, and the Commissary Court which formerly dealt with questions of marriage law and executry, while the judges have by statute been given separate duties in a Lands Valuation Appeal Court, a Registration Appeal Court, and an Election Petition Court.
Descartes simply absorbed the functions of these material souls into his mechanistic theory of creature-as-automaton.
He then sent a customs reform bill to Congress, in which the SRI would absorb the functions of the Ecuadorian Customs Corporation.
Gain additional staff from elsewhere within the organization, by having your group absorb the functions of their group, then getting yourself chosen to lead the new, larger group with the longer set of responsibilities.
* The American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York, will absorb the primary functions of the Account Planning Group-U.S., including the annual conference for account planners and the awards program.
In this collector, the absorber plate container unit performs the function of both absorbing the solar energy and storing PCM.
The litter that was provided did not serve the purpose of bedding as such, but rather had the function of absorbing moisture.
In an attempt to understand the function reconstruction (especially the function of shock absorbing) of degenerative disc by hydrogel injection, we investigated the static and dynamic biomechanical characteristics of lumbar intervertebral disc with or without hydrogel injection after nucleus discectomy.
In this piece of work, the linear spherical emission model has been applied to a system composed by a plane photoreactor and a single lamp, obtaining different profiles that show how radiation is absorbed as a function of the position inside the reactor and the absorbance of the reaction medium.
Besides their function as photosynthetic organs they take over, partially or entirely, the function of roots by absorbing water and nutrients with their foliar trichomes (Benzing 2000).
Because the function of breakwaters is to absorb or throw back as completely as possible the energy content of the maximum sea waves assailing the coast, they must be structures of considerable substance.
