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Usage examples of functioned.

And if that is not sufficient, if it is still objected that, even so, no period has accorded more attention to human nature, has given it a more stable, more definitive status, or one more directly presented to discourse - one can reply by saying that the very concept of human nature, and the way in which it functioned, excluded any possibility of a Classical science of man.

This court actually functioned for less than three years, being abolished in 1913, as was mentioned above.

Greeks and Jews, functioned and non-functioned, believers, and cynics.

Commonwealth society could not have functioned without an army of Dull Intelligences to oversee routine regulatory and analytical functions.

Habitat and asteroid: they functioned as counterweights on the ends of the tether.

It is reasonable to speculate that these skull ornaments of the herbivorous ceratopsians functioned as protective devices against the attacks of carnivorous predators or in aggressive confrontations between individual ceratopsians themselves.

Marathe functioned as a triple agent, pretending to betray his nation for his wife, memorizing every detail of the meetings with B.

A small scoop front functioned as a vacuum, and brushes on retracted tentacles betrayed its second duty as a sweeper.

Each robot was linked to a larger network under the control of the computer evermind, a labyrinth of circuitry that functioned in unison, building the Synchronized Worlds to a larger, more comprehensive state of order and progress.

Standard chairs and tables never fit her, and he marveled at how she functioned so stubbornly, without complaint, in a universe designed for larger people.