The right approach is to engage constructively with Russia while not being afraid to criticise it and to try hard to persuade the Russians that the West can be a friend, not an enemy, if only their country resumes its path towards being a properly functioning democracy.
In holding this view, one could also say that there is value in being a properly functioning agent, and that this value is explained by the ways in which functioning properly as a agent tends to bring one into conformity with what reason requires.
And because the crisis was predictable, a properly functioning regulatory system could have avoided - or at least greatly mitigated -the crash and damage that is now being inflicted especially on the country's middle and working classes.
For Hitler's realm was less a properly functioning state than a cult run by criminals in the name of a godlike leader.
This ruthenium vapor protocol must be conducted in a properly functioning fume hood with a minimum flow rate of 100 ft/min.
Another important consideration in our Group is subsidiarity: the decision should be taken at a level as close as possible to the citizen, which is compatible with a properly functioning single market.
The reason we work so hard to get home for Thanksgiving and Christmas isn't so much that we know what things to discuss with each other; it's because in a properly functioning family, everybody knows exactly what not to discuss with each other.
Although about 100 trucks of humanitarian and medical supplies were allowed in yesterday and the day before, Palestinian officials say daily deliveries about five times that size are needed for a properly functioning economy.
All of this is essential for a properly functioning democracy, and we owe ourselves and our newspapers a way to make this activity profitable and viable.
However, they are reduced with a properly functioning electrical market, which balances out variable power from power sources over a large geographical region.
