The researcher EE Evans-Pritchard described how until the early 20th-century, male Azande warriors in the northern Congo routinely married male youths who functioned as temporary wives.
Fatwas typically function as temporary suggestions for proper behaviour rather than strict, enduring rules.In this section Sticks now, carrots later Bombs and truth Clarification: BAE Systems ReprintsYet fatwas do represent the prestige and learned opinion of their author, and so should not be taken lightly.
Fibrous substrates functioning as temporary extracellular matrices can be prepared easily by electrospinning, yielding fibrous matrices suitable as internal fillers for nerve guidance channels.
In highly fragmented landscapes, mid-successional grasslands provide additional habitat for many typical grassland species, and can function as temporary refugia ("substitute habitat") for these species until old grasslands are "restored".
The past decade has seen the rapid development of new strategies for the design of biodegradable macromolecular compounds, with properly suited architecture and tailored properties, functioning as temporary support for the engineering of living constructs in tissue regeneration applications.
These two military hospitals dispatched medical rescue teams to Ludian county no more than two hours after the earthquake occurred, which functioned as temporary hospitals and received the injured in the stricken areas.
In myocytes, Mb is widely accepted to function as temporary 'store' for oxygen (O2), able to buffer short phases of exercise-induced increases in O2 flux during which it supplies the gas to mitochondria (Ordway and Garry, 2004).
Action: Creating child-friendly spaces In the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, UNICEF assisted the Government of Myanmar in establishing child-friendly learning spaces to function as temporary replacement schools.
Load-sensitive activity reflects specific working memory functions, such as temporary retention and manipulation of information, while load-insensitive activity reflects supportive functions, such as visual orientation, perception, encoding, and response selection and execution.
The weak upper house, elected last year with a voter turnout of barely 10%, functions as a temporary lawmaking body.
