Sentence examples for function mainly as from inspiring English sources

Under his direction the subjects are, above all, actors who function mainly as allegorical symbols.

Benetton's business model was to function mainly as a wholesaler with a large network of franchised stores.

There are no required classes, and all rules are decided democratically by the students (of whom there are about a dozen, all seemingly around seven years old); the teachers function mainly as safety officers, consultants, and parliamentarians.

Those who view the cosmos as basically monistic such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism generally have no belief in angels, who function mainly as revealers of the truth.

This show's great first room aside, its heart belongs to Morris, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Mel Bochner, Michael Asher, and other cerebral types whose art works function mainly as illustrations of theoretical (and occasionally, at least in Smithson's case, poetically sublime) ideas.

These function mainly as control variables in the models for testing the hypotheses.

But, even then, business journalism still functioned mainly as a messaging service between merchants and financiers.

The film's slender plot, which Mr. Gatlif conceived with his co-writer, David Trueba, functions mainly as an excuse to string together individual performances.

Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression.

As governor, Smith reformed the insane asylums, created the state parks system, and undertook the distinctly unglamorous task of reorganizing the state bureaucracy, which functioned mainly as a collection of warring fiefdoms.

Meanwhile, at the big corporation, the diversity-management program functioned mainly as a surreal exercise in internal branding, entirely separate from the legal department (which handled claims of discrimination).