1. You might meet this person under competitive circumstances at work or at a social function with both of you trying to one up the other.
2. The whole atmosphere is reminiscent of a cocktail party, where people segue from a day's work into some social function.
3. The Enron Corpus has led to a better understanding of how language is used and how social networks function.
4. The social backgrounds under which NGOs function in the West and China are different, and at times even opposite.
5. The entertainment function of the Internet is first and foremost while the social networking is largely ignored.
6. But state fragility is a function of not only weak institutions but also of social systems under strain.
7. All these measures are making sure that social supervision may function as a supplement to the institutional watchdogs within the government.
8. Western social scientists'social learning theories inform us that examples function mightily on youthful minds.
9. Perhaps you'll meet under competitive circumstances at work or at a social function with both of you trying to one up the other.
10. Cell phones with the SNS function have emerged as the new medium of social networking.