But even though the soul is joined to the whole body, "nevertheless there is a certain part of the body where it exercises its functions more particularly than in all the others.
The necessity for military government arises from the failure or inability of the legitimate government to exercise its functions.
He relished his title as national commander-in-chief, but never exercised its functions anything like as comprehensively as did Churchill.
"So the remit of SHAs will change - the board will exercise its functions through the regional offices that will report directly to the chief executive".
The part of the body in which the soul directly exercises its functions is not the heart at all, or the whole of the brain.
In particular, the Government must exercise its functions in such a way as to recognize the special position of the Malays, the indigenous people of Singapore.
Article 39A(3) exempts any provision enacted by Parliament pursuant to Article 39A from being void due to inconsistency with Article 12. Another provision that is rescued from potential invalidity by Article 12(2) is the Government's constitutional mandate to exercise its functions in such a way as to recognize the special position of the Malays, who are the indigenous people of Singapore.
Experts suggested markets were still unsettled by Friday's statement by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the state-owned lender that had been the main channel for injecting funds into the market, that the market should "exercise its function of self-adjustment".
There must be something for which simply to exist is to exercise its function, or else we have an infinite regress, and must explain every functioning as though it were the functioning of a complex machine, without ever settling on simple parts for the machine which simply function as they do because of what they are.
