Sentence examples for function in a city from inspiring English sources

CB performs another function in a city in which people broadcast as much from their living rooms as from their vehicles.

Today, the Literary Museum holds festivals, readings, concerts, and classes for children — fulfilling an important function in a city which, as the Odessa-born American poet Ilya Kaminsky put it, "in its present incarnation, has more monuments to dead writers than actual living ones in residence".

Mr. Scoppetta has begun to try to improve the radio communication system, though he noted that there is no perfect portable radio that will function perfectly in a city of concrete and steel high rises.

"Clearly it would be difficult for a broad-based administration to function in any city occupied by one faction," said Pakistan's foreign minister, Abdul Sattar.

One of the annual, celebrated functions in Stamford, a city of 120,000 about 35 miles northeast of Manhattan, is a dinner benefiting muscular dystrophy.

A good comparison might be drawn with how the traffic functions in a big city; a slight modification in the traffic light timing on several main crossings could result in a disruption of smooth traffic and finally complete chaos.

He will need to create a functioning civic culture in a city that has long since been without one.

The use of underground space can help cities meet these increased demands while remaining compact, or find the space needed to include new functions in an existing city landscape.

Apart from convenient storage, the tote bag can function in the city as a similar kind of social semaphore to cars in the suburbs, signaling who you are, where you've been, or just how much you hate using the plastic bags at Trader Joe's.

In 1727 a madrasah started to function in the city, and it worked uninterruptedly for 240 years until 1967, when it was closed due to the Cultural Revolution applied in communist Albania.

The liberties had for centuries performed a necessary cultural and ideological function in the city's symbolic economy, one that can be only briefly summarized here but that made them peculiarly apt ground for early modern drama to appropriate and turn to its own use and livelihood.