The phrase "agencies function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the operational activities or roles of various agencies, often in a governmental or organizational context.
Example: "Understanding how different agencies function is crucial for effective policy-making."
Alternatives: "the operation of agencies" or "the role of agencies".
The agencies function largely independently and diverge widely in the way they train their employees to deal with the public, Ms. Dolinsky said.
In an effort to get the rulemaking process back on track, CFA and others have repeatedly raised concerns with the SEC's proposals and provided concrete, simple, and targeted fixes that could make a real difference in the ways credit rating agencies function.
At present, agencies function under a prospective payment system, which began in 2001, where there is a base rate of pay which is adjusted up or down based on specific patient characteristics in three domains: functional, clinical and service utilization.
Keeping the courts and federal agencies functioning properly is more important than preserving the Senate's hoary anti-democratic prerogatives.
It keeps government agencies functioning at current funding levels, and includes additional appropriations for the Pentagon, hurricane relief, veterans health care and other projects.
The series (beginning on Wednesday) depicts the already too heavily penetrated world of New York fashion, peering into the subculture of the professionally swan-necked to reveal its soapy insidiousness, as if we imagined that modeling agencies functioned as environmental nonprofits.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on a stop-gap spending measure on Thursday that will keep government agencies functioning until Oct. 6, seven days beyond the official end of the fiscal year at midnight on Saturday.
It was a day after the Republican-controlled Senate, bowing to the acrimony that has enveloped negotiations between the Congress and the White House over unpassed spending and tax bills, first approved a stopgap measure to keep government agencies functioning until Nov. 15 and then voted to go home.
Under that schedule the House and Senate will have to approve at least one more temporary stop-gap spending measure to keep several government agencies functioning since the legal authority for the Federal government expired with the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
There is no simple solution to implementation of best-practices; rather solutions require system-wide approaches that take into account the interrelatedness of agencies, functions and other components of the system.
"All along, my goal has been to make sure we preserve the agency function and focus on safety," he said.
