For Mr. Romney: The nation needs to cope with a growing and aging population, to improve infrastructure, transportation, education, anti-terrorism (homeland security), and to fund basic scientific research (to name just a few functions of government in a large, advanced economy).
IT is one of the few functions of the company that can see horizontally.
Mucosal permeability is one of the few functions of the gastro-intestinal tract that can be quantified in the clinical setting.
Using the adjoint method, the gradient of the cost function can be computed fast, at the expense of few function evaluations, making the optimization process very efficient.
The editorial activity of the few functioned strategically to create a body of exemplary texts on which others might model their own writing, speaking, and behavior.
The Picture House remains one of the region's few functioning single-screen movie theaters of its vintage.
Mustafa Sanalla, the chairman of NOC, one of the few functioning, bipartisan technocratic bodies in Libya, signed the agreement with the Rosneft chairman, Igor Sechin.
The Sabeen maternity unit in Sana'a is one of the few functioning hospitals left in Yemen.
But many people who work in food safety believe that Marler is one of the few functioning pieces in a broken system.
But tunnelling is one of the few functioning industries in Gaza, accounting for some thirty-five thousand jobeforeore Israel's December attacks.
