Sentence examples for agencies functioning from inspiring English sources

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 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.

That comes after Senate Democrats late Friday killed a GOP-written House-passed measure that would have kept agencies functioning for four weeks.

Social media websites for law enforcement agencies function like a virtual bulletin board on the town green.

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.

"These things," she said, "are more art than they are science," adding that the agency functioned well in clear-cut, emergency intervention.

The agencies function largely independently and diverge widely in the way they train their employees to deal with the public, Ms. Dolinsky said.

Military men, assigned to keep civilian agencies function ing during the Cultural Revolu tion, continue to occupy key posts, but there are indications that civilians are taking onII more responsibilities.