This serves one obvious function: it keeps the richest teams from immediately snapping up all the best young players.
Perhaps the most obvious function of dress is to provide warmth and protection.
The most obvious function of myths is the explanation of facts, whether natural or cultural.
In "Set of Beginnings and Endings," a tool kit has no obvious function but is clearly intended for some significant purpose.
I also fear for the support for subjects that don't have an obvious function in the economy or utilitarian value – such as history.
The area once occupied by Gawhar Shad's college was enclosed by a low wall that served no obvious function except to distinguish its desolation and neglect from that of a neighboring patch, where another college had stood.
You know the ones: the plate that's been under a potted plant since the Carter administration, the dainty whatsit that has no obvious function but that you've kept because it might be valuable.
The Z and the X share another evolutionary feature: both, Dr. Page's team has found, are padded with repetitive DNA sequences of no obvious function.
To the question, "What was she for?", there was never an easy answer: apart from giving birth to a potential future British monarch, she had no obvious function.
But that coincidence seems a pretty thin excuse for a huge international event, and the statement had no noticeable effect.It is not just that APEC has no obvious function.
