Sentence examples for function as government from inspiring English sources

These breaks may be labeled differently, but they serve the same function as government spending.

What gave the "dark side" political force has nothing to do with its function as government policy.

With the support of the Algerian government and various humanitarian aid organizations, the SADR government functions as a "government in exile".

The office, which was eliminated more than a decade ago by Gov. Christie Whitman on the grounds that it was unnecessary and expensive, is supposed to function as a government ombudsman, consumer watchdog and lawyer for the indigent, the elderly and the mentally ill.

Another example of this is the credit rating agencies, which essentially function as the government's surrogates.

This contributed to the failure of the committee to function as per government guidelines.

After the Košice government assumed control of the liberated Czechoslovak lands, it organized people's committees to function as local governments and also developed a distinctly pro-Soviet foreign policy, on the basis of which it obtained the Teschen district from Poland (through Soviet intervention) but ceded sub-Carpathian Ruthenia to the Soviet Union.

Such a plan, developed outside county processes, is in keeping with Patriot tactics of establishing bodies which are intended to function as shadow governments pushing their own agenda.

The DPWH is one of the departments of the government that function as the national government's engineering and construction arm.

Of course, the Tea Party, and its heirs in House Republicans' Freedom Caucus, were, for philosophical reasons, content to limit the federal government's functioning as much as possible.

While SADR functions as a government in exile and is charged with governing the Sahrawi refugee population, a vast majority of Sahrawis remain living in the land controlled by Morocco.