Sentence examples for functioning ones from inspiring English sources

All you hear about in the tabloids are the dysfunctional families, but never the functioning ones, who are also struggling to survive in this environment.

There are whole states, even apparently functioning ones like Connecticut, that blithely allow their citizens to order wine directly through catalogues and the Internet.

According to Nathaniel Davis's "A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy" (2003), there were more than 50,000 churches before the revolution and no more than 300 functioning ones by the late 1930s.

By comparing defective cells with properly functioning ones, Dr Schekman was able to isolate three different classes of genes in which mutations caused the chaos.Knowing how a piece of machinery can break down is important in understanding it.

When he tested the functioning ones he found that, in many cases, the water was more contaminated than the river or pond water the villagers had been advised to avoid.

There were many periods of backsliding and regression, but it is clear that by the age of six she had achieved fair language and, with this, had crossed the Rubicon that divides "high functioning" people like her from "low functioning" ones, who never achieve proper language or autonomy.

"Iran is one of most important targets, and the place was not functioning," one of the former officials said.

My brain was functioning on one-quarter capacity.

"Without Sister Antonia, I couldn't function," one monsignor tells him.

For five years, I hadn't functioned one day without pills.

Both were alcoholics: CW a functioning one, Vivian manifestly not.