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“I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.”

States Greater Exercise Office Authority Standards Function Regard London Guidance Ethical Secretary Sections Ethical Standards

Author:Ken Livingstone

“If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.”

Ifs Men Firsts Looks Poet Office Function Good Man Impossibility

Book:Volpone

Source: Volpone

“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

Should Wells Turns Work Known Months Office Six Letters Should Have Function Track Chiefs Six Months Turn-on Should Have Known Memos

Author:Jilly Cooper

“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.”

Made Information Office Function Setting Settings Speakers Parliament Request

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.”

Writing Mind Firsts Heart Book Matter Hard Use Eye Opportunity My Own Animal Seeing Movement Office Findings Understood Function Difficulty Dissection

Author:William Harvey

“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.”

Speak Church Teach Share Offers Office Function Claims Masculine Eucharist

Author:Tertullian

“Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gotten so bad that the offices are overwhelmed and can't function. I got an idea. Why don't you hire more people? They're right there in line. Speed this whole thing up!”

People Wells Kind Ideas Country Whole Waiting Lines Office Function Speed Unemployment Overwhelmed Files

Author:Jay Leno

“My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.”

People Knows Helping Home Belief Social Numbers Car Internet Activity Office Function Entertainment Manage Devices Application Equipment Social Life Large Numbers Manageable Appliances

Author:Vinton Cerf

“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.”

Giving Firsts Eye Courses Brain Love You Office Elements Function Not Alone

Author:William Shakespeare

“Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.”

Government Watches Office Function Representatives Governing Assembly

Author:John Stuart Mill

“That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.”

Parent Creative Duty Office Degrees Approach Function Claims Supreme Deities Solemn

Book:The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

“Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.”

Duty Keys Exercise Calling Office Authority Function Performing Priesthood Priesthood Keys

Author:Dallin H. Oaks