In a department that has traditionally functioned in paramilitary style, officers will be asked to open up.

The German military had traditionally functioned as a "state within the state" with a very large margin of institutional autonomy.

Public art has traditionally functioned to popularise art - to challenge the elitist art culture of the galleries and bring art into the streets.

Such a rule is a hallmark of commodity futures markets, which have traditionally functioned with daily price limits.

For example, Sahrawi Islam has traditionally functioned without mosques in the normal sense of the word, in an adaptation to nomadic life.

"There is little need for an antique dealer who has traditionally functioned as a middleman."

The DP had traditionally functioned as a stronghold of liberal whites, and now gained new support from conservatives disenchanted with the NP, and from some middle-class blacks.

"Empire has traditionally functioned as both a financing device for hospitals and a means to make economical health care available to as many New Yorkers as possible," Judge Read wrote.

Victoria Hall forms part of a continuous row of commercial buildings overlooking Gore Park, an area that has traditionally functioned as the city's commercial heart and the focal point of public events.

Although these religious orders serve the Catholic Church, they have traditionally functioned as distinct, autonomous groups with their own missions, assets and incomes.