Hershel is not merely crippled, he serves no real function outside of sitting around at the prison.
If the only real function behind such labels is to bolster profits, consumers and regulators will eventually see through the hype.
But the real function of the uniform, it seems to me, is to provide an easy, visible chance for the teachers to show who's boss right away.
Real corporate earnings growth is a function of real economic growth.
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Smart real estate people deputized mortgage reps hungry for referral opportunities, to shoulder this function, leaving real estate agents to focus on the business of selling real estate.
Real interest rates are basically a function of economic growth and the difference between real rates and nominal rates rooted in inflation calculations.
While the technology itself was novel, how it would function in the real-world was less obvious.
All five digits on the bionic hand function like a real human hand, says the company.
From the standpoint of people actually impacted and trying to function in the real world, compliance headaches and job losses driven by regulation are most emphatically costs.
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Emotion UI is also pre-installed with a smartphone housekeeper function to support real-time data traffic tracking, automatic blacklisting and blocking, periodical system cleaning, and spontaneous exiting of idle programs and cache cleanup, in addition to anti-virus, energy saving, privacy protection, software management, and more.
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Next, the anti-big banksters do not observe how big banks function in the real world, their role in an abundant and vast financial ecosystem with its countless players and its large array of financial niches, the value large banks add, the extreme adaptivity of the private sector even to severe negative events, and the self-correcting properties of the markets.
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The real ones improved patients' lung function by 20%, compared with 7% for the alternatives: a dummy inhaler or acupuncture.
Increasingly, stock markets function as speculative adjuncts to the real work of business finance.
Although the common view is that video games are an escape from the real world, I think video games can function as interactive mythology.
To make sure that it doesn't, Washington will need to put Tehran on notice that the prospects for real, long-term dialogue are as much a function of Iran's domestic practices as of its nuclear ambitions.
The real problem is that the human body is not designed to function optimally in an environment where food is so plentiful.
Dr Ma even suggested that the robots could behave like many real insects and assist with the pollination of crops, "to function as the now-struggling honeybee populations do in supporting agriculture around the world".
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Nokia has the pieces it needs to begin integrating GPS and cellular communication into all kinds of devices that will offer better real-time traffic, weather and location Web services than a single-function GPS alone can.
Equation of Time function at 9:00 that indicates the difference between solar time and real time.
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Today, 22% of employees say that they have used a non-IT-provisioned service over the Web to perform their job function not to update their Facebook accounts, but to do real work.
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It won't win any awards from design aesthetes either: function was prioritized over form with its retro stylings -- but the real achievement here has been to cram that much power into this tiny box.
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On the Juke, for instance, a click on the phone's scroll wheel brings up a text messaging screen, a calendar or a picture function, just as if a finger were pressing the keys of the real phone.
After all, it served that function well into the era of the jumbo jet, so there are no real physical constraints.
Interns get to see the real work that real people do, and to see how disparate pieces come together to make an organization function.
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Nominal interest rates should reflect real interest rates in a world of zero inflation, if they are to perform their function of allocating capital efficiently.
His understanding of the agony and the ecstasy of manic depression displays a level of empathy for the illness never yet found in a novel, a function perhaps of his friendship with fellow-author David Foster Wallace, a real-life depressive who committed suicide in 2008.
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