"Would you be able to function within 24 hours?" she asks.
Had this occurred, global trade would have ceased to function within a very short period of time".
His work is specifically conceived to function within the art world's conventions: it is lent and exhibited, bought and sold.
Every one I've gotten--onrecommendations or whim--has failed to function within a few months.
Where song lyrics are written to function within a musical frame, poetry is framed by silence; it's always working against the void.
Blindness is an example of a health problem that, while not fatal, can dramatically reduce one's quality of life or ability to function within society.
Ecclesiastics increasingly went to the Americas to function within these encomiendas and to convert the indigenous people to Christianity.
From "Monsieur Hire" on, Mr. Leconte developed an adventurous, highly emotional style that broke many of the fundamental rules of the commercial cinema while continuing to function within it.
"Children will naturally push at boundaries, but if those boundaries are so incredibly weak, and the solution their family has is to just say 'Yes', children learn to function within that environment.
He noted that the industry had to function within Clean Air Act requirements, which grow more stringent with time, and that his company had reduced its emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides since 1990 and would continue to do so.
The characters of "Les Huguenots" exist simply to function within their historical context as individuals swept by forces beyond their control, specifically the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 3,000 French Protestants in 1572.
