Otherwise put, the name 'man', or its equivalent in any other language, is a suitable and well-made name in so far as it discharges its function of separating off vocally what it is to be a man from what it is to be a dog, a drainpipe, or anything else.
The state is the system designer, collective investor and risk manager and taxation is its due deserts and enables it to discharge its function.
Government has discharged its function when its policies are effective.
In the absence of malice, the Committee is immune from a defamation suit when it discharges its functions under the Presidential Elections Act.
As Kolkata's apex body, the corporation discharges its functions through the mayor-in-council, which comprises a mayor, a deputy mayor, and ten other elected members of the KMC.
Each school had a two-story meeting hall used for gatherings of its members and for discharging its charitable functions.
Ofcom has wide information-gathering powers, which would give it access to the information needed for it to discharge its regulatory functions".
As UUK suggests, amending the legislation to require the OfS to "act in a manner compatible with the principles of institutional autonomy" would go a long way to establishing it as a body that was truly at arms' length from government while maintaining the capability to discharge its proper functions.
It discharges this function through its "fitness to practise" procedures, whereby inquiries of all sorts (including complaints, expressions of concern, or other general questions) received about individual doctors are assessed and investigated, and decisions are made about appropriate action.
The purpose of the review of the ACMD, ordered in secret last month, is to "satisfy ministers" that the body is "discharging the functions" that it was set up to deliver and that it still represents value for money to the public.
