1.   Although Serb leader Biljana Plavsic lost, moderates gained in every part of the country, engendering hope that multiethnic national institutions will function more effectively.

2.   As the epidemic swamps this rural state-run hospital, it is transforming how the institution functions, how its employees live, even what they believe.

3.   At least in the immediate future, the elite institutions will function principally as producers, rather than consumers, in the online marketplace.

4.   No institution can function without a feedback loop to tell it what it is doing right and wrong.

5.   As private financial institutions are not functioning correctly, government-owned banks are preparing to take charge in a bid to put the ailing economy back on track.

6.   How these political institutions function properly and interact creatively is quite another thing.

7.   If the financial institutions are not functioning well, such an increase may not help stimulate the economy as hoped.

8.   Sociologists say that in Venezuela and other Latin America nations, the poor majority often turns to religion for relief because public institutions such as hospitals function so poorly.