Shortly after Afonso VI's coming-of-age in 1662, the King appointed Castelo Melhor his secret notary (escrivão da puridade), a position in which the favourite was able to exercise the functions of first minister.
There is a force in the mind which exercises the functions of a censorship, and which excludes from consciousness and from any influence upon action all tendencies which displease it.
5. Management system: the government exercises the functions of an independent regulator and treats both the public health care institution and the private for-profit/non-profit health care institution fairly.
The Politburo "exercises the functions and powers of the Central Committee when a plenum is not in session".
Although he did not feel called to be a Lutheran pastor, Hölderlin did have a strong sense of religious vocation; for him, being a poet meant exercising the priestly function of mediator between gods and humans.
After severing ties with his former political heir Philippe Yacé in 1980, who, as president of the National Assembly, was entitled to exercise the full functions of President of the Republic if the Head of State was incapacitated or absent, Houphouët-Boigny delayed as much as he could in officially designating a successor.
"The definition of "corrupt conduct" does not extend to conduct that adversely affects or could adversely affect merely the efficacy of the exercise of an official function by a public official in the sense that the official could exercise the function in a different manner or make a different decision.
In the second half of the 20th century, they had come to exercise many of the functions of trade unions, including bargaining about salary and fee scales.
When applied to higher plants and mammals that have a variety of cell types and developmental stages, caution needs to be exercised in interpreting the functions of each TF in a cluster.
Although five G domains of Rab protein is discrete distribution in amino acid sequence, they are close to each other to form a special catalytic domain in the three-dimensional conformation of proteins, so as to better exercise the function of a protein (Rutherford and Moore 2002).
