Find an object or objects from history that have contemporary cousins of some kind, perhaps in terms of their functions.
In this chapter, lipid compositions, shapes of lipids, diversity, and distribution in biological membranes will be discussed in terms of their functions.
"The Kids Are All Right" is a work of "liberal realism," a phrase meant to ring as hollow as that of Socialist Realism, and, for all its cleverness and charm, its fleshed-out characters are actually far too sculpted, defined all too tightly in terms of their functions in the story's lines of conflict to be exemplary of anything.
Men have embarked on enterprises for profit and have joined together for collective purposes since the dawn of recorded history, but these early enterprises were forerunners of the contemporary corporation in terms of their functions and activities, not in terms of their mode of incorporation.
In the 1970s, problems with viewing attachment as a trait (stable characteristic of an individual) rather than as a type of behaviour with organising functions and outcomes, led some authors to the conclusion that attachment behaviours were best understood in terms of their functions in the child's life.
Clade 3 encompasses most heterogeneous PARPs, in terms of their functions and domain structure.
Various forms of functionalism in anthropology which understood social patterns and institutions in terms of their function in the larger cultural context proved illuminating for religion, such as in the stimulus to discover interrelations between differing aspects of religion.
It is crucial to develop a relationship with the right individual at the organisation you're trying to work with, both in terms of their function within the organisation and their position in the hierarchy.
