The first two functioned openly and were tolerated by the regime, but the Ukrainian AOC was not permitted to function openly.

Orwell, you see, ran across them in Spain, where they were functioning quite openly at one point during the Civil War.

By early 1989, several anti-Communist political parties were already openly functioning, challenging the hegemony of the Slovenian Communists.

The democratic opposition, ground down and unable to function openly, has won nothing, although it maintains high respect abroad and continues to draw young recruits into its ranks.

Political parties also started to regroup, although they only began to function openly again in 1987.

And if he was, then he would not be functioning openly as a Mindcrime agent.

Several human rights groups are functioning openly, political prisoners are steadily being released and some prisons have been rennovated.

At any rate we find that the Helsinki Committee and Open Society Institute which have invested 30 million in the country, are not able to function openly.

It was not being allowed to function openly as a political party.