Sentence examples for holding a function from inspiring English sources

The hotel manager said Simpson told him that Hertz, the auto-rental company for which the former football player has long been a spokesman, was holding "a function" in Chicago.

The hotel manager said Simpson told him that Hertz, the auto rental company for which the ex-athlete long has been a spokesman, was holding "a function" in Chicago.

After the civic reception at the Town Hall and a banquet at a Piccadilly restaurant, the team returned to the open-top bus and headed to Belle Vue Pleasure Gardens, near the club's former home of Hyde Road in east Manchester, where the Chronicle held a function.

However, two recent studies suggested that circulating CRP could hold a function as a prognostic marker for metastasised or androgen-independent PC (Beer et al, 2008; Nakashima et al, 2008), contradicting our results.

It once held a functioning nuclear reactor in its basement and a research wind tunnel, both now dismantled.

They point out that other Bundesliga clubs already break the 50+1 rule, such as "company clubs" Leverkusen and Wolfsburg, or Hoffenheim, where the billionaire Dietmar Hopp is said to act as a de facto owner without holding an official function.

Since the time of Alexandria, libraries have held a symbolic function.

Mr. Dundore argued that contemporary advertising held a different function from that of the '60s.

He has asked whether there should be a rule that no board member or senior executive of a failed bank should hold a similar function at a bank in the future, unless they could prove they warned against the risk-taking that led to the collapse.

For many people, cartoon art holds a similar function.

Nearly 30 years after, the Puerto Rican Zarzuela and Operetta Foundation held a second function.