"This band functions as a core unit but it also functions as a family.
This limit functions as a relative absolute.
Each of the four to six reports per year is meant to function as a major statement on an important issue, something that has the potential to change the conversation, through new information, new analysis, memorable expression, or, in the best cases, all three.
By positioning himself as a trailblazer for the free culture movement, Girl Talk's music has always functioned as a political statement, whether he frames it that way or not.
About a third of the way into the mix they drop El-B's funky cut "I Feel," the chorus of which finds the singer Natasha proclaiming that she feels "lovely as a summer's day"—which could really function as a thesis statement for all the selections here.
The exhibition functions as a cohesive whole, an eloquently articulated artistic statement that expresses Paiva's conceptual ideas through several different approaches emerging from a common point of departure: the metro station.
Voters' eagerness for an alternative often functions more as a statement of dissatisfaction than a serious commitment to buck the two-party system -- especially in the case of polls pitting a nameless "independent" candidate against Clinton and Trump.
This functions both as a wedge and a loss leader.
Turning to the issue of local, state, and FEMA personnel not functioning as a team, the controversial statement by Michael Brown – former FEMA Director – that Louisiana was dysfunctional well before Katrina's landfall [ 8] appears to be well supported by the facts.
Schaffner's account has an ontological aspect in that he interprets the reduction functions as synthetic statements expressing identities between the entities and processes of the two domains related (in line with Sklar 1967 and Causey 1972a, 1972b), though he does not argue that these identities are metaphysical necessities.
For instance, the predicate 'large', functioning in a statement such as 'Shaquille O'Neal is large' must be completed with 'for a human'; for while Shaq is large for a human he is not large compared with a tree.
