The university said the group could not function on campus until its aims and activities were reviewed.

"We have told them that the group is a general menace to the world and shouldn't function in Syria," the official said.

These groups function like a criminal offshoot of the state.

Alternatively, group calling also functions as a means of leaving voice message to defined groups.

Many of Chile's women's groups function outside the state sphere.

However, during the next eleven years, only one or two small groups were functioning.

Few groups, including some of the largest on the Island, are functioning unscathed.

The groups function as a social outlet for members while encouraging community service.

The two are not mutually exclusive: neither group can function without the help of the other.

Besides, he needed to see how the group functioned in a battle situation.