Sentence examples for should have functioned from inspiring English sources

Defending his company's safety record, Mr. Hayward said a blowout preventer on the gulf rig that failed to stop oil leaking "was fully compliant with the regulatory regime and it should have functioned".

Japan should have functioned as a glacial refugium for temperate freshwater invertebrates during several glacial cycles.

By "ready", it means that they should have functioning market economies, stable democracies and the administrative and judicial capacities needed to enforce EU laws.

In this work, the two generated segments could be transcribed and should have functions.

We think that they should have functions related to the lung development even though their regulating genes are not lung specific.

However, environmental sequences such as those of the Sargasso samples should have functions corresponding not only to the function-known NcCOGs, but also the function-unknown NcCOGs (2020 groups).

Doors to classrooms should have functioning locks.

Borda concluded that Moore has "a significant Intellectual and Developmental Deficiency, and by any current standards should be considered to have functioned within the Mentally Deficient (or Mentally Retarded) range for all of his teen and adult life".

And we should have a functioning cash safety net.

Although the function of RASSF1 isoform C is still not clear, the RASSF1 isoform A and C should have distinct functions.

Instead, Ms. Learned said, Dell should have emphasized function and figured out ways to sell the netbooks in a way that wasn't clich?and reliant on gender stereotypes.