state function
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The distance you traveled to the top of Kilimanjaro, however, is not a state function.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
It was just a complete disintegration of state function.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2015
A strong party maintains, on the other hand, that conservation is primarily a state function.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
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