Sentence examples similar to it functioned as a scheme from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it is not clear that Glu63* functions as nucleophile only, or that a competing pathway exists in which it functions as general base (Scheme 2).

The system functions as a legalized money-laundering scheme.

Additionally, Fed assurances function as an asset-redistribution scheme to benefit members of the financial intelligentsia well-positioned in easy money environments by informational, associational and structural advantages.

We continue to believe that the exceptional funding scheme is functioning as intended.

When the government says that its interpretation of the ACA "allows the Act to function as a 'symmetrical and coherent regulatory scheme,' with no need to rewrite, explain away, or ignore any of its provisions," it seems to be lending the text of Obamacare an each-word-is-holy internal logic that it cannot quite bear.

It's also worth noting the business community itself is divided over one particular element of a tax overhaul: lowering corporate tax rates by using a border adjustment tax scheme, which would function as a 20% tariff on all imports.

We suggest that this HB-PhaC (Scheme 4) may function as a primer of the polymerization process.

This scheme also could function as a kind of checklist, thus reducing the probability of forgetting any items in the assessment.

The mortgage finance industry and all that it affected -- at the heart of the financial crisis -- functioned as one such Ponzi scheme.

In the next stage a thematic framework was developed to function as the coding scheme (thematic analysis).

We combined the two theories as we aim to be comprehensive in identifying both the issues related to the adoption of the program and to its actual functioning as a health insurance scheme.