Sentence examples for functions were to from inspiring English sources

The respective petitioners employed supervisors whose functions were to see that the prices were the same on one market as on another.

Their basic functions were to preserve the Islamic nature of the state and to rule and defend the empire.

As he saw it, these functions were to terrify the German populace, train the Gestapo and the S.S. in casual cruelty, and study how to most efficiently crush the human spirit.

The then ambassador, Lord Halifax, was a rather stiff figure, and the embassy's main functions were to give out information about Britain, curry favour with President Roosevelt and report back to London on American politics.

The Fāṭimids also founded great libraries and colleges, whose functions were to train missionaries to go out into the field, and to provide further instruction for the converts sent to Cairo for this purpose.

In the past, Xinhua's chief functions were to snoop on Hong Kong, and make difficult the lives of foreign journalists wishing to report on China.

One of the pavilion's few functions is to hold the functions that reward the funders.

One of a director's most important functions is to maintain tonal consistency.

Still, one of architecture's major functions is to negotiate changing relationships between the two.

One of his firm's functions is to help celebrities discover where their charitable passions lie.

One of its main functions is to bring blood into contact with lymphocytes.