During the late nineteen-nineties, there was the tech bubble, during which the market's information-processing machine virtually ceased to function: for a time, virtually any company with the suffix ".com" attached to its name could issue stock at a very high price.
1259 82) erected a school "on the grounds of the old orphanotropheion", likely indicating that it had ceased to function for some time by then.
If it weren't for [security tools like ours], the Internet would have ceased to function long ago.
"Our board has ceased to function effectively".
"In recent weeks, our board has ceased to function effectively," he added.
However, models also reveal the alarming rise in temperatures that could occur if the screen of short-lived aerosols should suddenly cease to function for any reason in the presence of high concentrations of long-lived greenhouse gases (see H. D. Matthews and K. Caldeira Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 9949 9954; 2007).
It also warns that GPs could be distracted from providing patient care during the transition process as they work to set up the direct commissioning process, while PCTs could "cease to function effectively" as staff leave for other jobs.
Groups of cells responsible for the colour of human hair, for instance, may cease to function years before the hair itself loses the capacity to grow: the result is the "uncoloured" white hair of old age.
In Japan, some people have closely bonded with robot dogs, to the point of holding funerals for automated pooches that cease to function.
This basically means the EPA will either cease to function or cease to exist.
My computer, which has ceased to function, is wheedlingly ascribing to me a "need", as though the crash were my fault, rather than simply apologising for its own feckless behaviour and asking to be turned off.
