The skewer here isn't necessarily integral to the cooking of the thing – its chief function is to keep things in place.
The nail's chief function is to protect the terminal portions of the toes and fingers.
Their view is that the Internet's chief function is to liberate individuals from control by, or dependence on, government and corporations.
The job of the public defender, however, is not only to disabuse jurors of this assumption, nor is it only to ensure that the defendant was not "over-charged". The public defender's chief function is to ensure that police officers, prosecutors, and courts follow certain rules in their dealings with the defendant.
However, the U.S. European Command's special operations branch last year conducted its first training exercise with the Turkish Mountain Commandos, a unit whose chief function is to fight Kurdish guerrillas.
This means her chief function is to facilitate questions from the studio audience; if history is any guide, the campaigns will keep her on a short leash.
While e-Portfolios are certainly valuable learning tools [ 37], their chief function is to keep a record of the student's own work, and for students to reflect upon their learning.
Yet like criminal law, tort law's chief function is to protect us.
On many of its projects, including the E.U. and Quality Meats, AvroKO's chief function was to dictate where the votive candles went and just how much brick to expose.
The unions' chief functions are to facilitate overly generous payments to un-fireable incompetents and nepotism cases who do little work and endanger their charges' lives.
In the past, Xinhua's chief functions were to snoop on Hong Kong, and make difficult the lives of foreign journalists wishing to report on China.
