Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union and Communist China are the real champions of world peace; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be scrapped; U.S. bases abroad must be abandoned; Red China must be admitted to the U.N.; and the Big Nation veto, which the Russians have used to thwart the peacekeeping function of the U.N.'s Security Council, must be allowed to operate even more widely than it has in the past...
...concept of constitution as fundamental law enforces upon an often impatient majority a long cooling off period, during which the afforded opportunity for discussion and debate tends to ensure that the wisest counsels will prevail, and that the result will represent the reason of our people. The function of the judiciary was considered important at the birth of our constitutional era; it is no less important today...
...temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal Salem, the Deputy Premier, was able to smooth over. Again, at a diplomatic conference in India, he became so annoyed at the protocol that denied him a place beside Nasser that he pointedly passed up one official function, and was later discovered by Nasser sulking alone in his automobile...
Tammany Boss Richard Croker was a harsh, cold man. But even Croker well understood the function of Tammany Hall, and he could speak of it with eloquence and emotion. "Think," he said, "what New York is and what the people of New York are. One half, more than one half, are of foreign birth . . . They do not speak our language, they do not know our laws, they are the raw material with which we have to build up the state . . . There is no denying the service which Tammany has rendered to the Republic. There is no such organization for taking...
...Westminster, by all the Dominion Parliaments too). As now planned, the bill would deprive Margaret of all rights of royal succession, her right to become Regent if Elizabeth and Philip should die before Prince Charles comes of age, her annual ?6,000 income under the Civil List, and her function of Councillor of State, which she exercises whenever the sovereign is incapacitated or absent from the country for a long time...