Sentence examples for to function openly from inspiring English sources

Around 2004 a group of Lebanese activists established Helem – the first LGBT organisation to function openly in an Arab country.

When the official churches were disestablished, new religions and sects were able to function openly and compete for followers.

The democratic opposition, ground down and unable to function openly, has won nothing, although it maintains high respect abroad and continues to draw young recruits into its ranks.

In a contradiction in American policy, the State Department lists the group's political arm as part of the Mujahedeen's terrorist network, but it is allowed to function openly in the United States and is even registered with the Justice Department as a lobbying organization.

By Prachanda's own admission, former members of Maoist paramilitary squads function openly as the Young Communist League.

While commercial sex workers (CSW) are present, they do not function openly in distinct physical locations [ 18].

Non-Muslim religious groups are permitted to advertise group functions openly and distribute various religious literature; however, outright proselytising is strictly prohibited under penalty of criminal prosecution, imprisonment, and deportation for engaging in behaviour offensive to Islam.

As these plans continue, most of the Government has effectively ceased to function, with a number of departments openly declaring their opposition to the authorities.

Gangs of skinheads and neo-Nazis functioned openly here, holding public meetings, assaulting foreigners and throwing firebombs at hostels where asylum seekers lived.

Depressed and finding it difficult to function, Hettinger was transferred to a less stressful job, as a driver for the police chief, but he soon began shoplifting openly in front of people.

The Texas Legislature is set up to function in a bipartisan way, and the fear of alienating a potential president seems to have increasingly made cooperation an economic issue for Texans, with few Democrats openly criticizing the governor.