These companies account for such a large share of Russia's economy and its trade and influence overseas, that they cannot help but function as instruments—and sometimes makers of its foreign policy.Gazprom controls 25% of the world's known gas reserves and supplies almost all the gas needs of central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
A biological approach to human knowledge naturally gives emphasis to the pragmatist view that theories function as instruments of survival.
Sometimes it was unusual synthesizer or guitar sounds, sometimes amazing rhythms, sometimes it was incredible beats or precision timing, and sometimes it was the innovative use of vocals that functioned as instruments themselves.
Questioning will be guided by a checklist to ensure that all important aspects of the hierarchy, the choice tasks, and the instrument itself were functioning as intended.
The studies reveal that predictability and accountability transparency are effectively introduced functioning as trade policy instruments, and the importance and compliance of the guidelines have remained progressively valued and appeared highly regarded (see Collins-Williams and Wolfe 2010).
"And, when you keep returning to that note, it's almost as though the cello is functioning as a percussion instrument.
Emission Trading Schemes (ETS) can function as policy instruments for controlling emissions.
As Boumans argues, macroeconomic models function as measuring instruments insofar as they produce invariant relations between inputs (indications) and outputs (outcomes), and insofar as this invariance can be tested by calibration against known and stable facts.
"Despite heated rhetoric, one side accusing the other of being the tool of outside forces, and the other accusing the other of being extremist, the over-the-top language functioned as an instrument of persuasion in the competition for votes and not an instrument of elimination of the opponent from the competition," she wrote.
As their 2010 expenditures show, they are still functioning as a primarily negative instrument, spending in opposition to middle-of-the-roaders such as Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.
