Socioeconomic changes proceeded slowly; the economic system functioned as a loosely related group of regional producers rather than as a national entity.

Finally, the Crime Victims Board must be changed to function as a state agency rather than a political entity.

By this time the party had effectively ceased to function as an independent entity.

The Reichspost continued to function as a governmental entity after Germany became a republic.

The center will be financed by the Government but will function as an independent entity.

All remaining employees would then be laid off and the city would cease to function as an administrative entity.

Several conservatories and contemporary music (jazz) schools that are tied to a university often function as a separate entity while being attached to a university.

The Sheff ceased to function as a separate entity in 1956.

Biologists say that each cell in our body is actually an aggregate of species functioning as a single entity.

The hordes of them that dotted the tundra functioned as a single entity.