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  • Opera Unite does indeed rely on a P2P-like network to function,

    Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity 2009

  • Guts: weak ATP binding, that is hardly a true biological function,

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • By radically changing the inside/outside topology so that the organism's interior becomes the determining context of function,

    The Impulse of Breathing 2009

  • And there could be no voidness in terms of function,

    In Praise of Dependent Arising rJe Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang grags-pa 2008

  • The financial crisis at the Alice-based university, exarcebated by the failure of students to pay fees, had been building up and had now reached a stage where the institution could not function,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • As Trin had never before interrupted her attendance at a function,

    The Coelura McCaffrey, Anne 1983

  • If the action is of the form of the integral of a function,

    Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • He evades the real point, namely, that Marx clearly included mental as well as physical labor in his use of the term, and with an ingenuity equaled only by the disingenuousness of the argument, seeks refuge in the fact that it does not cover the special "directive ability" which is a special function,

    Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921

  • In fifteen more minutes, if the ticking clock within that sinister case performed its function,

    Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

  • That part of biological science which deals with form and structure is called Morphology -- that which concerns itself with function,

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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