And hope their equipment is functioning, she did not say aloud.

She sat at the panel and tried to call up Colonel Richards, but the equipment would not function.

Your equipment has been functioning, you said, for twenty thousand years.

A brief glance at the monitors indicated that all equipment was functioning.

Maybe all the aliens had really wanted to do was provide themselves with more power, without knowing how the equipment functioned.

What if their equipment does not function properly?

I'm delighted to report that all necessary equipment is functioning.

All equipment is original, repaired and can function normally.

In reality, he knew it would have to work to send him home and there was little doubt that the equipment still functioned.

For the planned 19 days of the weather experiment, the equipment functioned normally.