Sentence examples for town functioning from inspiring English sources

Many of those who keep the town functioning are moving farther and farther away.

Examining what Haneke called "the roots of evil", this study of an authoritarian, conformist social order – the town functioning as an obvious microcosm – makes its points with unforced subtlety.

The town functions mainly as a commercial and service centre for the Orkney Islands and is also the islands' historic county town (seat) and administrative centre.

The half-timbered houses which now form the museum date back to that period, providing an insight into how the town functioned at the time.

In Mexico many towns and municipalities are managed by a centuries old "usos y costumbres" or customs and traditions system that govern the population and help keep towns functioning as they have for decades and even centuries, especially in places where state and federal presence is almost non-existent.

In some cases — for example, not buying a case of bottled water at the local market to have at town functions — the impact of such pledges is relatively modest against a $10 billion-a-year national industry.

"We are non-political, our job is just to make sure the town functions," Svetlana Kalinichenko, the petite advisor to the town's mayor, anxiously told VICE News.

From her adobe house on the eastern edge of town, she functioned as the social arbiter and hostess to distinguished visitors from out of town.

The town also functions as a market centre for the Indian villages in the vicinity.

Bahi, Raman and Abdulmoeen from Aleppo are being upheld by everyone from the local paper to Junk as the role models for the way the town might function in future.

Since it was a small town, and functioned reliably as a Greek chorus, the Tanners had never been free of the pressure of being the parents of Arnold, a gay man.