Sentence examples for contemporary function from inspiring English sources

Compensation is arguably the most important contemporary function of tort law, and modern insurance practice has made it easier to satisfy the injured without financially crushing the injurer.

New restaurants have risen phoenixlike from the dust and detritus of old commerce and industry, tasteful metamorphoses that respect an original structure while fitting it out to serve a new contemporary function.

Just inside the door, immediately to the right, there was a narrow rifle-slit of frosted glass that must have survived from the days when the building was still liable to attack by Native American war-parties – certainly it served no contemporary function.

The historical stages by which governments have come to exercise their contemporary functions make an interesting study in themselves.

Changes in insight were associated with changes in contemporary functioning, but it was found that changes in insight made no significant contributions to changes in functioning which were independent of changes in symptoms.

At the Calhoun CZO, interfluve order and corresponding erosion and intra-critical zone regimes inform us about the evolution and functioning of hydrologic, geomorphologic, biogeochemical, and biotic systems; CZ response to historic land use change; and the contemporary functioning and management of the CZ.

Could contemporary society function under the antiquated model of bartering?

The oldest footprints indicative of contemporary foot function, however, have been found in Ileret, Kenya.

The producers of documentaries like those in the C.B.S. historical series "The Twentieth Century" can make interesting use of old film clips from, say, the First World War, but the producer who is concerned with performing a contemporary journalistic function, as distinct from a historical one, cannot command anything like the flexibility of form that is possible with the printed word.

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This second edition provides a thorough introduction to contemporary convex function theory with many new results.