Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.

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Favoritism at work can be demonstrated in hiring, advancements, pay increases or awarding contracts and are particularly troubling when two or more employees perform the same function to vastly different levels of recognition.

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Certainly it was a function of his concern for his nation and his recognition that our very existence hung in the balance.

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The essential function of jurors is to act as witnesses to justice and to confirm the public's recognition of the mechanisms of the law.

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He would enter a household, and, whether placed in the stable, quartered with the help, or, very occasionally, and only in the most Christian of dwellings, treated like a guest, he had, for those few days, a function and a recognition.

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