state function
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After his Oireachtas address, President Biden will be the evening guest of honour at a state function in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
Because the public service prioritized the funeral as state function over the utility of burial, Croft’s Burial Service here is more an appeal to tradition rather than a liturgical and religious need.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022
In this view, public health and safety is solely a state function.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022
When the prime minister of the Serbian enclave in Bosnia, Zeljka Cvijanovic, stopped at the hotel and met Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she issued a news release almost suggestive of a state function.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2020
There is no state function or social activity which is not considered by many men to be hurtful: there is no institution which is not considered pernicious,—courts of justice, banks, local self-government, police, clergy.
From What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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