Sentence examples for functions only as from inspiring English sources

So much for the claim that choice functions only as "a subsidy for the relatively affluent".

In general, dispose of anything that functions only as a rest or a bridge.

A. The assumption that a bird's tail functions only as a horizontal surface is erroneous, said Ron Rohrbaugh, an ornithologist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y.

In Thetela's analysis, the writer therefore functions only as an observer of the research.

If a controller is used with an on off detector, it functions only as an amplifier to transmit the detector signal to the controlled device.

Against this view, Kant will argue that the concept of God properly functions only as a "regulative" — i.e., limiting — principle in causal accounts of the spatio-temporal order of the world.

In other words, the Kursk and nine other huge nuclear submarines could function only as long as they could avoid accidents.

And different from the distant military threats of the Cold War, are we now exposed to threatening systems which seem to function only as long as they are deeply interwoven and are interfering with a civil society's private communication.

Second, brokers should be allowed to function only as agents, not as dealers.

The United States military can function only as an extension of a free and open society.

Many critics have asserted that Tarantino's characters are hollow, cartoonish figures (Forster's and Grier's characters are exceptions), functioning only as hooks on which various clever jokes can be hung.