Sentence examples for their basic functions from inspiring English sources

It is further based on the hypothesis that the cancer phenotype is based on the inability of multiple genetic functional modules to carry out their basic functions, and that functional modules are critical to the "hallmarks of cancer", including self-sufficiency in growth signals, evasion of apoptosis, sustained angiogenesis, tissue invasion and metastasis [14].

In many areas, panels continue to struggle to carry out even their basic functions.

But few Latin American prisons fulfil their basic functions of punishing and rehabilitating criminals.

Their basic functions were to preserve the Islamic nature of the state and to rule and defend the empire.

We must not let it fester until the vital organs of our body politic are too crippled to perform their basic functions they're designed to perform".

Mr. Thompson and Ms. Gotbaum both suggested that it would be nearly impossible to perform their basic functions if they accepted the mayor's challenge.

But once they had been rescued, banks still needed help to perform their basic function.

Though it is unclear if the children are boys or girls, their basic function is to tug at our heartstrings.

Features are the "bells and whistles" of products and services, those characteristics that supplement their basic functioning.

As such, their impact and influence is significant, and the best of them come to symbolise values that extend beyond their basic function.

But then, having finally fulfilled their basic function as gatekeepers, they immediately denature their own efforts by softening language to the consistency of boiled linguine.