Sentence examples for were able to function from inspiring English sources

On average, people who had surgery were able to function better after two years than those who did not, but the operation did not prolong their lives.

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

In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred.

The coexistence of the two normally incompatible traits suggests that primates were able to function during twilight or bright moonlight for a time before making the transition to a fully diurnal existence.

In his book "Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima," the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton argued that rescue workers at Hiroshima were able to function at all only because they succeeded in "turning off" their feelings of compassion.

It was also unclear whether the Bank's employees are suspected of involvement in any attempt to rig the auctions, which were used to ensure that banks were able to function effectively even as liquidity dried up in many parts of the financial markets, before full-blown quantitative easing was launched in 2009.

We're able to function very efficiently.

Would Mariupol still be able to function as a port?

Without that, UberEats wouldn't be able to function".

I won't be able to function properly.

Without Texas, our government would not be able to function.