Sentence examples for towns functioning from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

But if, as I suspect, you're also really annoyed at having to attend these out-of-town functions at all, then come up with a better excuse than the caterer, like: "I'm sorry I can't come.

"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.

(34-year-old woman with 4 living children Additionally, most women (n = 17, 65%%), including those with continuing urinary continence, were now able to travel overnight and attend important out-of-town functions like funerals and weddings.

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.