functioning

Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.

Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.

It is entirely possible for some of these mechanisms to be functioning while others have ceased.

There are conditions where the heart and many other organs are functioning relatively well, but the brain is very ill.

Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades.

Once his one-track mind got to functioning on a certain objective it seldom digressed.

The lungs, functioning there in another atmosphere, are different from our own.

Thus the dreams show that unselective awakening of ideas which is to be expected from a general decrease of functioning.

She was wearing some kind of perfume, Burckhardt noted with what little of his mind was functioning at all.

His mental processes were gone beyond the point of disbelief and shock; they simply were not functioning.