The proper function of the Camp David summit should have been to tie up loose ends.
There is much talk of the proper function of art in wartime, "painting while Rome burns".
The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it".
She has performed the proper function of a senator from the minority party — holding the majority accountable.
But either way, is this the proper function of Wall Street?
In my view, the proper function of government is to protect individual rights and freedoms.
But, once again, Rakoff was rebuked by the Second Circuit, which wrote that it wasn't "the proper function of federal courts to dictate policy to executive administrative agencies".
The proper function of female characters, after all, is to represent qualities which the hero can in due course absorb within himself.
"It is not, however, the proper function of federal courts to dictate policy to executive administrative agencies".
The book is also a further unpacking of Mr. Gessen's personal philosophy on the proper function of the novel: to hold up an honest mirror to society, no matter how frivolous and unserious that society may be.
This was, as Angleton put it, 'a necessary duality.' " Translation: the proper function of spies is to remind those who rely on spies that the kinds of thing found out by spies can't be trusted.
