The agency has historically functioned as an arm of Beijing by monitoring political affairs in the former colony.
Established immigrant communities, which historically function as a lifeline for newcomers -- helping with the language, the law, employment and credit -- often reject or even menace gay men and lesbians seeking asylum.
These two fields, which have historically functioned in almost complete isolation, are finding mutual benefit in the exchange of information.
More fundamentally, while the contemporary Western ideal of marriage involves a relationship of love, friendship, or companionship, marriage historically functioned primarily as an economic and political unit used to create kinship bonds, control inheritance, and share resources and labor.
Retracing the evolution of sexology, and revisiting modern epistemological categories of sexuality in psychoanalysis, gay liberation, social constructionism, queer theory, biology, and human genetics, Angelides argues that bisexuality has historically functioned as the structural other to sexual identity itself, undermining assumptions about heterosexuality and homosexuality.
The article examines how blood has historically functioned through modes of biocertification to co-produce race and disability in the US as a stable, biological property of an individual so as to be able to know and govern such social identities.
Mareschal said these unions have historically functioned as "schools of democracy".
Results indicate that vast areas of the forest have historically functioned as diversity sinks, generating few or no extant Bursera lineages.
Supporters regarded him as innovative in letting private companies assume historically public functions.
Historically, these functions have been accomplished using a variety of physical and chemical processes with limited recycling capabilities.
For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues.
