Sentence examples for take over functions from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, secular institutions take over functions, like education, formerly controlled by the church.

Thus, the overworked brain may lose "cognitive reserve," the ability of healthy parts of the brain to take over functions lost by other parts.

The drones are the latest example of the State Department's efforts to take over functions in Iraq that the military used to perform.

John Watkins Blackwood, Caerphilly I am wondering if there has been any modelling on the ability to staff those hospitals which will take over functions of hospitals being downgraded.

The crackdown comes amid other moves by the Iraqi government to take over functions that had been performed by the United States military and to claim areas of the country it had controlled.

The general idea behind many of the initiatives is to have the M.T.A. take over functions that city officials think the authority is better equipped to deal with on a statewide scale, and at the same time, absorb some or all of the costs.

Private companies are taking over functions that should be left to the state.

The engineers kept them running idly without taking over functions like attitude control or running the oxygen generator.

In the center, where Baghdad is located, local institutions are taking over functions once carried out by United States officials.

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, which took over functions of the Customs Service, received $333 million, with $90 million to produce detection and monitoring equipment to find radioactive material that terrorists might try to smuggle into the country.

In mammals, where it becomes so large as to dominate the brain, it takes over functions from many other brain areas.