Unilever and Procter & Gamble successfully branded basic functional products as items that would transform people's lifestyles.
Inside, there is nothing that would catch the eye: the meeting rooms are filled with basic, functional furniture.
It is decorated in the basic, functional, slightly timeworn style of middling Italian restaurants from here to Sardinia.
Those are words to live by, whether you mean physically, like she does, or as a basic functional human being.
I've spent about a year of my life in Taiwan and China, and I have a basic, functional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese.
Land Rovers began as basic, functional equipment, said Gerry McGovern, the company's head of design since 2004.
Yet Christenberry's subjects remain rooted in the same territory: basic, functional buildings, mostly of wood, as well as old metal signs and billboards, which he collects and sometimes incorporates into his works.
It looks slightly prettier (as expected) but it's missing a third of the characters, the gear customisation, the special bonus games, Mii support and even a basic functional tournament mode.
So it is striking that with at least one free school, the Hackney New School in east London, its architects Henley Halebrown Rorrison are nonetheless striving to exceed the basic functional minimum with its architecture.
About two-fifths of the people of the province live in villages, which remain the basic functional units in the countryside.
Let us introduce some basic functional spaces.
