1.   He merely wanted, or so he said, to leave Bush the option of keeping America engaged in planning how the court would function.

2.   President Ricardo Lagos, the military, and judicial officers have all sworn publicly that the courts are functioning without outside interference.

3.   The court functioned just as well with fewer justices as it had with nine.

4.   President Aslan Maskhadov said that, beginning immediately, only Islamic courts will function in Chechnya, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

5.   But the differences over how the court will function and what cases it will handle are significant.

6.   Mohamud refused to accept the dismissal, but the court could not function properly while the two leaders squabbled.

7.   The courts are barely functioning because of confusion over the new system.

8.   The international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has shown that international courts can function.

9.   Much remains to be done before the court can function properly.