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"dysfunctional" Definitions
  1. not working well or normally

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Well, no, it's so toxic that it's dysfunctional, it's politically dysfunctional.
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all dysfunctional companies are dysfunctional in their own way.
Good for: Slightly dysfunctional families who get emotional watching other dysfunctional families onscreen.
The Mets are not the only dysfunctional organization in baseball, or the most dysfunctional.
Putting more patches on the dysfunctional system we have, still leaves us with a dysfunctional system.
Twitter is a dysfunctional company with an interfering board and, like any dysfunctional family, it needs a divorce.
So Trump's legal team is in a state of flux, threatening to make an already dysfunctional team even more dysfunctional.
The dysfunctional Trump presidency has put an exclamation point on this, but Congress has been dysfunctional for almost three decades.
Seven in 10 respondents say the Trump administration is dysfunctional, while 8 in 10 see Congress as dysfunctional, as well.
"It was a dysfunctional agency yesterday, and it continues being dysfunctional today," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics.
"Tell-Tale Hearts" suggests that there's ultimately not much difference between a dysfunctional family that shares its secrets and a dysfunctional family that doesn't.
The extraordinary and unenviable task facing the White House staff is to contain Mr. Trump, to keep a dysfunctional president from producing a dysfunctional presidency.
For the medium-dysfunctional families, light bickering and occasional chaos frequent mealtime, but for more dysfunctional characters, the absence of dinner tends to mark 'failed lives.
"The only people who will suffer as a result are ordinary Americans dealing with a dysfunctional economy, dysfunctional because capital markets are rigged to pay themselves for paying themselves."
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's government is so dysfunctional, Beirut stinks.
LOS ANGELES — TV's favorite dysfunctional family trio is back.
" He cautioned investors not to engage in "dysfunctional trading.
" 'Uniquely dysfunctional' Darroch, a veteran diplomat who had also served as the UK's national security adviser and its permanent representative to the European Union, added that "this is a uniquely dysfunctional environment.
They're a little dysfunctional, they're arguing like kids would argue.
"As a family unit, they are pretty dysfunctional," Haydon added.
Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron in May blasted Renault's "dysfunctional governance".
Advocates say these facilities are more dysfunctional than licensed shelters.
Others are just calling it straight up "dysfunctional" and exploitative.
Competitors would make these companies pay for such dysfunctional gridlock.
Protesters are wrecking what they see as a dysfunctional system.
A massive, expensive, dysfunctional border wall will not achieve this.
How did the world's most powerful government become so dysfunctional?
But Merry Christmas from our little dysfunctional family to yours!!!!
What was a dysfunctional, bickering relationship is now a divorce.
One is that the Red Cross is a dysfunctional organization.
But Merry Christmas from our little dysfunctional family to yours!!!
CLAIM: The ACA has fixed the dysfunctional individual insurance market.
But we also have a dysfunctional reality on the ground.
The House of Representatives remains dysfunctional and unproductive as before.
Four generations on, those animals' descendants are inbred and dysfunctional.
Plurality primaries stymie majority will and help create dysfunctional government.
Those voters already look at Washington as dysfunctional and dishonest.
He hungered for virility, but was meek and sexually dysfunctional.
I'm saying that's dysfunctional, and I'm saying it is unethical.
Some proved deeply dysfunctional, though many fought fiercely and bravely.
A science fiction sound lab operated by a dysfunctional professor.
So we were a pretty dysfunctional band making that record.
It is the most dysfunctional political arena in the country.
As we're seeing yet again, our asylum system is dysfunctional.
Congress is dysfunctional for the same reason impeachment is: partisanship.
America's adversaries exploit the vulnerability created by our dysfunctional democracy.
The Trump administration isn't as dysfunctional as it could be.
Wondering where your favorite highly dysfunctional, barely capable superheroes are?
But the Freedom Act system proved dysfunctional, expensive and inadequate.
But the Freedom Act system proved dysfunctional, expensive and inadequate.
"Functional" songs in a musical comedy are a bit dysfunctional.
They are also deeply sad, deeply dysfunctional, or deeply underestimated.
I took the pills blindly and trusted a dysfunctional system.
He has a string of casual flings and dysfunctional relationships.
A workplace that operates by reciprocity is a dysfunctional one.
Germany's dysfunctional coalition government is emblematic of the EU's disarray.
My family is wonderful, but it's spread out and dysfunctional.
No wonder 80 percent of Americans say Congress is dysfunctional.
They are irredeemably dysfunctional and on the brink of collapse.
Devoid of steadfast leadership, executive agencies easily become dysfunctional themselves.
Read: The Trump Campaign Is a 'Dysfunctional' Mess, Insiders Say
We are still the queer dysfunctional family you dream about.
Other recent attempts to enact immigration reform have been centered on granting amnesty to millions of people who broke the law and making our already dysfunctional immigration process even bigger (and, likely, more dysfunctional).
Chris Donaghue, author of Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture, tells me that much of what we label "dysfunctional" about erectile performance is just a natural part of getting older.
More federal funding for dysfunctional airports just perpetuates the status quo.
They're white, poor, and dysfunctional in every sense of the word.
It's actually one of the nice things about our dysfunctional community.
You don't know what's healthy and you don't know what's dysfunctional.
People thought she would turn around the perennially dysfunctional internet giant.
The relationship is not as dysfunctional as it seems, he says.
"People were talking about retiring from a dysfunctional career," he said.
The one exception to this has often been Olivia's dysfunctional parents.
One large investor calls the committee, the board's most important, "dysfunctional".
Why is the capital of Europe's most successful economy so dysfunctional?
Myanmar is far from the first example of a dysfunctional mission.
"We cannot continue to throw money at a dysfunctional system," Rep.
ILLINOISANS HAVE long grumbled that theirs is a most dysfunctional state.
Still, Facebook's recognition that its platform has grown dysfunctional is significant.
It is that kind of government it is a dysfunctional government.
The entire process was really a stunning display of dysfunctional policymaking.
A key constitutional responsibility of Congress, appropriating money, has become dysfunctional.
The 22-year marriage was dysfunctional for years, court records say.
But not the chairman," Pelosi said, calling Nunes a "dysfunctional chairman.
Shindo says most of his fellow gangsters came from dysfunctional families.
But in this rapidly changing environment it is becoming increasingly dysfunctional.
WHAT are the most dysfunctional parts of the global financial system?
But it is becoming dysfunctional in ways the framers never envisaged.
Those moral flaws encouraged what sociologists might call dysfunctional organisational dynamics.
Brooklyn Heights gets a 2.5/10 for being outdated and dysfunctional.
"It was a bit of a dysfunctional family office," Cole said.
Because dysfunctional families often don't find a way to stick together.
They represent the worst of our selfish and dysfunctional political system.
Until the 1930s, U.S. trade policy was both dirty and dysfunctional.
That state was replaced with a dysfunctional and corrupt semi-state.
I got lucky, but because of dysfunctional, discriminatory rules, most don't.
I have had a somewhat dysfunctional relationship with authority ever since.
This will create a parliamentary deadlock that renders the government dysfunctional.
His benching, however, seemed to reveal a directionless and dysfunctional organization.
They were highly dysfunctional and many of them profoundly mentally ill.
Put differently, her somewhat dysfunctional family has provided far livelier copy.
The left often charges that the FEC is a "dysfunctional" agency.
It can also result in dysfunctional teams and poorly performing products.
A decade ago, India pried open its notoriously dysfunctional telecom market.
Yet the International Cricket Council has been dysfunctional for many years.
Nobody is calling for the military exclusion of the erectility dysfunctional.
The novel toggles discordantly between dysfunctional family drama and crime thriller.
His attackers are stuck in a wasteful world of dysfunctional diplomacy.
We are just saving them from their own dysfunctional dairy policy.
When Mr. Chávez became president, the judiciary was dysfunctional and corrupt.
My parents did not have ... They had time to be dysfunctional.
Being told I was reminiscent of the most dysfunctional woman on a show filled with dysfunctional women felt like an incantation, a twisted love spell put on me, making the series the subject of my heart.
You will never achieve the harmony of even a dysfunctional nuclear family.
Why did our dysfunctional relationship with money feel like a foregone conclusion?
It is instead a request that we rethink our dysfunctional nominating system.
The ambassador called Mr Trump's administration "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept".
But the dysfunctional housing market weighs heavily on their standard of living.
Sanders said Biden was supporting the status quo of a dysfunctional system.
Hyper-partisanship is poisoning our politics, making our democracy seem increasingly dysfunctional.
" - Carrie, 35 "Dysfunctional penis, watered his plants instead" - Lia, 27 "Sloppy kisser.
The family is textbook-dysfunctional, but they have a lot of love.
Like members of a dysfunctional family, we kept our secrets to ourselves.
A dysfunctional team running aimlessly around a field is doomed to lose.
Some of my favorite subject matter is the exploration of dysfunctional relationships.
For people with mental health issues, it's important not perpetuate dysfunctional behavior.
Congo is one of the worst-connected, most dysfunctional countries on Earth.
He was a very nice, confused kid from an exceptionally dysfunctional family.
And it speaks volumes about the dysfunctional incentives that define the medium.
But the state of which it forms a part is uniquely dysfunctional.
He built the dysfunctional companies into the world&aposs seventh-largest automaker.
Amazon cannot weather dysfunctional products unable to reach Amazon's revenue-generating services.
On this basis feminism is biologically dysfunctional whilst patriarchality is biologically functional.
What voters saw is a Washington controlled by Republicans be utterly dysfunctional.
For an undisciplined, dysfunctional guy like me, it's a world of absolutes.
The country is frustrated and angry with the dysfunctional state of politics.
But if the system is dysfunctional, offering them more money is pointless.
Ethereum could also prove particularly useful in countries with dysfunctional legal systems.
Bannon's reign might be dysfunctional, but Kushner's would fail in different ways.
The dysfunctional social and cultural norms are the biggest problems to tackle.
"We have a system now which is dysfunctional," Sanders added on Wednesday.
The dysfunctional NSC will itself become a threat to US national security.
A uniquely dysfunctional economy has created ideal conditions for the bitcoin surge.
"There's bipartisan consensus that the federal lands system is dysfunctional," he said.
Lucille Bluth is the most selfish member of the dysfunctional Bluth family.
The federal government grows ever more dysfunctional because of deep political divisions.
"Clearly, Belgian law enforcement is dysfunctional," argues Gomez, the former FBI agent.
We even subsidize such dares through the dysfunctional National Flood Insurance Program.
"Clearly these behaviors are correlated with a dysfunctional stress response," Scherrer said.
The dysfunctional '280s band is reuniting for a tour and new music.
Baltimore's black population lived under this racist, dysfunctional police department for years.
Both ran on a critique of a dysfunctional, even corrupt, political system.
The Sri Lankan government has been bitterly divided and dysfunctional for months.
"I wouldn't call tennis dysfunctional," Gimelstob told me before he stepped aside.
Since the demise of earmarks, Congress has become more dysfunctional and polarized.
It's a dysfunctional relationship neither party can quite bring itself to sever.
Today in America, our pre-school system is largely dysfunctional and unaffordable.
At the root of Puerto Rico's crisis lies a dysfunctional labor market.
The dysfunctional American political process had already warped the process, of course.
Not having lighting where you need can be both drab and dysfunctional.
The Point: Professional Washington is back -- and just as dysfunctional as ever.
"If we allow that to happen, Congress would be completely dysfunctional," Rep.
The dysfunctional Pritchett clan returns for Season 9 with a houseboat vacation.
The combination of a dysfunctional immune system and dry lungs is devastating.
Politics — even overheated, corroded, dysfunctional politics — are outside of Dr. Costa's expertise.
Even dysfunctional Libya and Iraq have been pumping and exporting like mad.
Right now, that's dysfunctional, and that's what worries me a great deal.
It is dysfunctional all the way around—socially, economically, politically, and morally.
There has been no reform of dysfunctional markets for land, labour or capital.
According to Santi, this leaves Italy's electoral system in a "quite dysfunctional" state.
And that isn't the only shocking number associated with Congress' dysfunctional budget process.
A dysfunctional federal government is a government unable to fully serve its citizens.
On the five-track EP, she confronts her dysfunctional relationship with her parents.
The announcement brings the end to the dysfunctional and disastrous caucus much closer.
The Host is a monster movie about dysfunctional family dynamics and government ineptitude.
Maduro's critics say indiscriminate printing of money and dysfunctional regulations are to blame.
America's own Department of Justice deems it to be "lawless, weak, and dysfunctional".
She also found a small family, albeit dysfunctional at times, in her colleagues.
In effect, Nigeria's north-east is a failed state within a dysfunctional one.
Congo, a dysfunctional, vast country of perhaps 80m people, is catching election fever.
Just about all agree that underlying all this is a dysfunctional housing market.
I think of dysfunctional components as part of the invisible underbelly of things.
Stop putting yourself under emotional distress by dealing with such a dysfunctional app.
THE welfare state plays host to the most dysfunctional relationship in British politics.
Or: Jake ended up the way he did because his family was dysfunctional.
Their patience will be tested if their votes only perpetuate dysfunctional, corrupt rule.
This exhibition amounts to a theory attempting to explain a dysfunctional French society.
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die.
But things are every bit as dysfunctional on the left as the right.
So we can't go back to the old dysfunctional relationship that we had.
Often the admission of a dysfunctional past is used to disarm adversarial criticism.
There are two major takeaways: This is what a dysfunctional government looks like.
He said banks should be selective to avoid funding zombie and dysfunctional firms.
It could point the way toward a broad strategy for ditching dysfunctional defaults.
Ms. Wood said mass deportations would add chaos to a dysfunctional immigration system.
Just the process of doing it shows investors the government is relatively dysfunctional.
IN LARGE PART BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN SO DYSFUNCTIONAL AND SO POLARIZED.
Some of them I had to fire because it was just too dysfunctional.
We look at how the tragedy is a symptom of Iraq's dysfunctional government.
It's difficult to look at those numbers and conclude that Uber is dysfunctional.
They quickly withdrew their dysfunctional bill, and the status quo remains in effect.
I think we can all agree the tax code is a dysfunctional mess.
You're right in saying that we have more or less a dysfunctional Congress.
Congress is more divided and dysfunctional than it was when McCain entered it.
In both cases, water quality has suffered at the hands of dysfunctional government.
On "Sticky," she's bound to a dysfunctional relationship with no intentions of leaving.
Psychologists sometimes break down children in dysfunctional families into a series of archetypes.
The MeK was ultimately delisted — a victory for justice against a dysfunctional agency.
Apparently one of the most common dysfunctional scripts is the demand/withdrawal cycle.
It doesn't do them any good to make the federal government look dysfunctional.
As I said before, distraction is a symptom of his dysfunctional work culture.
He projected old-fashioned family values, yet his own family was sometimes dysfunctional.
A dysfunctional political class may prove incapable of representing the state in talks.
The raids' practical effect will be to further burden our dysfunctional immigration system.
To say that we find ourselves in a dysfunctional relationship is an understatement.
Instead, I get my slightly dysfunctional family and a crummy office holiday party.
If Washington is dysfunctional — a pitiful, helpless giant — legislatures can show the way.
We can't wait to see what the dysfunctional Roys get up to next.
A bright idea has somehow emerged from the dysfunctional, dystopian Trump White House.
Yet it is by any measure one of the world's most dysfunctional states.
As the workarounds accumulate, they reveal how fully dysfunctional American health care is.
"A situation such as this could render the board dysfunctional," Ms. Weisberg said.
Parks have become shantytowns, and public services are either nonexistent or highly dysfunctional.
A poorly planned layout can lead to a dysfunctional and odd-looking kitchen.
Digital coins are also attractive for those living in countries with dysfunctional currencies.
A dysfunctional Congress cedes too much power to the executive branch of government.
"This is a thoroughly dysfunctional operation," said a Democratic senior foreign policy source.
Here are seven worthwhile candidates, plus samples of their memorable (read: dysfunctional) gatherings.
Judgment that is disconnected from help becomes onerous and creates a dysfunctional community.
It's all a bunch of BS. It's a continuation of a dysfunctional Washington.
Constant screaming and crying were signs that a relationship was dysfunctional, not steamy.
There are many more examples of the complicated, seemingly dysfunctional graduate school market.
It's not in their interest to change the system even though it's dysfunctional.
Objects rendered dysfunctional become a reflection of their service to a patriarchal system.
Lives are at stake, and America's dysfunctional relationship with codependence needs to stop.
Now I've come realize that America is almost as dysfunctional as many African countries.
The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of JuiceroJuicero began in secret.
"It's not their fault that the government is dysfunctional and shut down," he said.
Food chains and industry would become completely dysfunctional, and in some cases, non-existent.
Shoko Yoneyama of the University of Adelaide argues that Japanese schools are "dysfunctional communities".
A constitutional lawyer by training, Mr Temer dreams of reforming Brazil's dysfunctional political system.
Better-raised toddlers mean less need to cope with dysfunctional adults at public expense.
So many of my muscles were dysfunctional from having the disease untreated for years.
Carreyrou's book unveils the most toxic, dysfunctional, unbelievable work environment I've ever read about.
Political division has gotten so dysfunctional and so ugly that it's crippling to democracy.
And yet even he is ultimately compelled to return to the dysfunctional family fold.
We genuinely loved the guy and he was part of our dysfunctional family pic.twitter.
The Alabama Democratic Party is dysfunctional and deeply riven, its infrastructure almost non-existent.
For me, it was a life of constantly broken, unhealthy relationships and dysfunctional behaviors.
They're related, yes, but do they have to look like a dysfunctional brunette army?
Uber's dysfunctional and toxic work culture is the headline reason for its current chaos.
It was this big, dysfunctional family that came together in this strange, organic way.
That seems exactly like the kind of dysfunctional, childish thing Fitz would totally do.
The opposition PDP said on Twitter Saraki had "dumped the failed and dysfunctional" APC.
My relationship with food has been dysfunctional for as long as I can remember.
"Memories were coming up, and the more and more dysfunctional we became," she said.
"We are an authentic group of friends, and we are very dysfunctional," said Kent.
They also had the highest levels of happiness and lowest levels of dysfunctional behaviors.
Right now, the FEC is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans and notoriously dysfunctional.
Somehow, the Miami Dolphins are not the most dysfunctional franchise playing in this game.
Give me a desperate team over a dysfunctional one any day of the week.
I grew up in a pretty dysfunctional household where everyone was walking on eggshells.
On "Arrested Development," a once-wealthy, dysfunctional family copes with a variety of problems.
It's all smooth edges, with combat that's fast but maybe a bit dysfunctional underneath.
If the bus system were less dysfunctional, it would be less of a problem.
Democrats and some Republicans said Congress is dysfunctional enough without Mr. Trump getting involved.
SANDO on Acorn TV. This Australian comedy takes the dysfunctional family theme to extremes.
He also seemed dismissive of the Democrats' ongoing attempts to shelve their dysfunctional ways.
The story is loosely structured around a young man, Himi, and his dysfunctional family.
Homelessness is the worst symptom of "a highly dysfunctional housing market," Mr. Twyford said.
Ultimately, all he could do was bear witness to the dysfunctional brothers' bloody end.
"It is dysfunctional, hobbled by administrative inefficiency, and quite frankly by corruption," he said.
This led to a dysfunctional multi-trillion-dollar build-up of cash held overseas.
But nearly everyone who acts out violently has a dysfunctional or missing paternal relationship.
Although currently dysfunctional, there's still hope for a grand, more unified and uplifting structure.
That would be a major step toward finally overhauling the country's dysfunctional equity markets.
The racist police officer, Chris, is a nervous wreck with a dysfunctional family life.
Mia Kirshner portrayed Catherine Wyler, Jake's sister who had a dysfunctional crush on him.
LULAC is making headlines because of its apparently flawed internal procedures and dysfunctional leadership.
" Included in the show are the dysfunctional couple depicted in "Room in New York.
All of that was welcome news for a Knicks team that often appears dysfunctional.
Mostly, though, Mr Herron's dysfunctional crew suffers from a sort of auto-immune condition.
I mean love the way two dysfunctional street kids running amok in Hollywood loved.
Aladdin's dysfunctional family unit: Alia Shawkat as Aladdin's adventurous and idealistic twin sister Emily.
"We've got good people trapped in a dysfunctional system," he said in an interview.
Being familiar with dysfunctional democracy, they are not counting on a post-Trump revival, either.
Her family drama is fodder for the idea that she comes from a dysfunctional background.
We've pulled together a collection of the most dysfunctional clans from TV and the movies.
Small offices can often feel like families, and unfortunately yours is a rather dysfunctional one.
I can only hope that the MBTA won't be completely dysfunctional because of the snow.
Tom Graves: Americans are fed up with dysfunctional government spending -- I&aposm trying something new .
Having been a symptom of India's dysfunctional politics, the felons are metastasising into its cause.
And while this family might be dysfunctional, Sarah makes a compelling case for their flaws.
Sure, it is a very unconventional and dysfunctional lifestyle I have, living with these birds.
Adding insult to injury, taxpayers fund over $1 billion for a dysfunctional statewide shelter system.
In an hour we'd be at Brezovica, the most delightfully dysfunctional ski resort in Europe.
But experts say it's tragically necessary, given how dysfunctional America's addiction treatment system can be.
As well as compellingly tracing his professional dealings, Mr Conlin's book evokes Gulbenkian's dysfunctional family.
"We're infusing politics, which is making it even further a dysfunctional immigration system," Morgan said.
A rump Bannonite wing could make the Senate's Republican caucus as dysfunctional as the House's.
It centers on a dysfunctional family of superhero siblings who all cannot stand each other.
Ms. Leff's appointment was a promising sign that the dysfunctional pardon process would be repaired.
It's an essential mission that this deeply dysfunctional organization appears to be having trouble fulfilling.
The murders — and the resulting media frenzy — pulled back the curtain on a dysfunctional family.
Or is it, as our European allies worry, just a symptom of a dysfunctional administration?
The big picture: As Congress becomes more dysfunctional, more power goes to the executive branch.
Be smart: The most consequential workplace in America has been one of the most dysfunctional.
"The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional," she told Fortune's Pattie Sellers.
Families fight because relationship patterns form over time and can lead to dysfunctional communication patterns.
Coming from dysfunctional situations, they were not equipped to handle all that came at them.
Democrats shouldn't assume, in other words, that the process will fail because it is dysfunctional.
International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO, describes a "deeply politicised, dysfunctional criminal-justice system".
Siouxsie's husky, powerful voice sucked listeners into stories about war, dysfunctional families, and mental illness.
We should never be resigned to this dysfunctional pettiness, and there's nothing amusing about it.
This is one – but far from the only – example of dysfunctional diplomacy afflicting the administration.
If not, the program will be overseen by the partisan and dysfunctional Board of Elections.
Political intransigence makes for great television, but it makes for a dysfunctional nation as well.
His save was over the top, but there's a genuine dysfunctional family impulse behind it.
When Mr. Reed took over, he was inheriting a dysfunctional marriage in a crumbling house.
"I got news for you—the entire Arab world is dysfunctional right now," he said.
"The Trojan family needs to change its dysfunctional ways," she said, referring to USC's mascot.
Ask yourself if this dysfunctional Congress could have contributed to the rise of Donald Trump.
Yet, at home, our politics and democratic institutions have become divisive, hyper-partisan and dysfunctional.
"We are a very dysfunctional family, of the mild dysfunction," Harbour, 43, exclusively told PEOPLE.
The relationship between his character and Ms. Bell's is one of TV's most enchantingly dysfunctional.
Republicans insist Guantánamo's military commissions offer tough justice, but those tribunals have been largely dysfunctional.
This year's campaign is just the latest chapter in years of polarized, dysfunctional national politics.
Instead I characterized it as dysfunctional –"not operating properly or normally" --as is the House.
For a dysfunctional family like mine in the 90s, The Simpsons were an understanding reflection.
"Air traffic management is still dysfunctional in the EU," A4E managing director Thomas Reynaert said.
There's not a lot of introspection and articulation among dysfunctional youth, it's just all reaction.
But she has also warned that she would intervene in industries deemed to be dysfunctional.
National-security professionals prefer civilian courts, which have convicted numerous terrorists, to Guantánamo's dysfunctional tribunals.
The American people understand that we cannot continue a cruel and dysfunctional health care system.
And assuming they do, how long can this infamously dysfunctional musical family hold it together?
It's almost as if mildly dysfunctional is the new functional when it comes to families.
On top of all that, the company that owned the ship, Tote, was shockingly dysfunctional.
Those systems and practices can be dysfunctional while the whole still works, more or less.
Let's hope that a dysfunctional congress views this as a place for earnest consensus building.
The reality is that, whoever won, the country would remain divided and most likely dysfunctional.
I think for the last more than 10 years, we have had a dysfunctional Washington.
His adversaries say dysfunctional economic policies and rampant corruption are to blame for the problems.
Large corporations are getting more entrenched, innovation seems to be waning and politics are dysfunctional.
America's foster care system, for example, is dysfunctional and amounts to a pipeline for traffickers.
Cloud 9 employee costumes are also great for a fun, semi-dysfunctional group of people.
Passing regulatory reform may seem an uphill battle in today's hyperpartisan and dysfunctional political environment.
The alien mother ship is a dysfunctional workplace staffed by three not-always-compatible species.
Like most institutions in this country, the systems of law and order are thoroughly dysfunctional.
As the extended debate over the Clean Power Plan shows, our regulatory system is dysfunctional.
The review uncovered a deeply dysfunctional and flawed process riddled with inaccuracies and material omissions.
Now Rowling's book is also full of dysfunctional and venal white people, particularly white men.
The current federal budget process is widely regarded as dysfunctional and in need of reform.
"The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die," Williamson wrote.
They cite a desire for a less dysfunctional White House as much as anything else.
Many governors warned of another threat to their states: the dysfunctional federal government in Washington.
In a body that is often slammed as hopelessly dysfunctional, they actually got something done.
Afghanistan remains in the grip of a resolute insurgency and a kleptocratic, dysfunctional governing elite.
If and when financial markets consider our dysfunctional Washington politics, they may become very nervous.
They said poor public services and over-development were symptomatic of a dysfunctional political system.
By passing an actual bill you cut through the dysfunctional negotiations at the White House.
"I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood," she told Ms. Shriver.
But they are also informed by a thorough understanding of how dysfunctional Washington now is.
Yet instead of a dysfunctional, unworkable mandate, the recommendation would allow market forces to operate.
You also find that high-inequality societies are more polarized, more chaotic, and more dysfunctional.
He was widely viewed as a competent, stabilizing presence in a dysfunctional, chaotic White House.
One stellar example is The Meyerowitz Stories, from the auteur of dysfunctional families, Noah Baumbach.
America's regulators should have more powers, as Britain's do, to investigate markets that are becoming dysfunctional.
On the surface, the Knicks might appear borderline dysfunctional after firing Coach Derek Fisher on Monday.
I start stressing because I still haven't packed, and omg why am I always this dysfunctional?
"Most of the people we interviewed came from some type of a dysfunctional family," he added.
For the New York Mets, even the wins these days feel like dysfunctional family holiday meals.
Even if the current political crisis abates, Poland's constitutional structure looks set to become increasingly dysfunctional.
He'll need to figure out some way to function inside a deeply dysfunctional and divided administration.
But rather than taxes, it is red tape and a dysfunctional state that hold back growth.
Meanwhile, many middle-income countries at or near universal access still suffer from dysfunctional power systems.
It is currently in the running for a new distinction, too: the world's most dysfunctional metropolis.
This would be so obviously counter-productive that only a seriously dysfunctional government could countenance it.
It was mob action fueled by a lot of alcohol, a perfect storm of dysfunctional behavior.
"He was a very nice, confused kid from an exceptionally dysfunctional family," recalls Copetas to PEOPLE.
One reason local governments in China are dysfunctional is the way their finances work (see article).
As he left, sources close to Immelt's thinking called the search process totally "dysfunctional" (and worse).
What replaced it is the completely dysfunctional institution that practically no American has confidence in today.
She, who struggled financially, endured relationships that weren't working, and contended with a painful, dysfunctional childhood.
He's a first-term representative from the minority party in a deeply divided and dysfunctional Congress.
The biggest problem of all was the dysfunctional corporate culture in which it was being developed.
His critics say the country's plight is the result of a dysfunctional state-led economic model.
The impeachment saga served primarily to accelerate an already-dysfunctional Congress' slide into permanent political warfare.
Another theory points to dysfunctional electric discharges in the brain, incorrectly activating the neuronal memory hub.
Not good, if we go by the recent debate over further reform of our dysfunctional system.
I always thought that Google was the most dysfunctional group of people who function well together.
There are many problems in today's dysfunctional U.S.-Saudi relationship; policymakers should be discussing them urgently.
The story behind the name, however, isn't necessarily based off the dysfunctional Disney character, Louis Stevens.
But even in a dysfunctional White House, you wouldn't necessarily expect the story to end there.
Larson plays Walls, a woman with a seemingly whimsical but dysfunctional childhood thanks to her parents.
Higher prices are not, by themselves, a sign that the insurance marketplaces are dysfunctional or failing.
Cammie Maturin got involved trying to change Louisiana's famously dysfunctional criminal justice system for two reasons.
Sanders called the American healthcare system the "most dysfunctional and cruel healthcare system in the world."
The series about a dysfunctional family of mega-rich media people — think Rupert Murdoch and co.
He's been very, very successful in controlling the country's most dysfunctional institution and thwarting his enemies.
Some Arab states -- Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen -- have fragmented, while others like Egypt are dysfunctional.
The House Republican conference has long been dysfunctional and vulnerable to pressure from the far right.
But the issue is so personal, and the system is so dysfunctional, that may be impossible.
On last check-in with the San Francisco 49ers, we found the organization a dysfunctional mess.
We believe our government suffers when either one of, or both, parties are broken and dysfunctional.
Mike: Moving on, let's head over to the world of Twitter, everybody's favorite dysfunctional social network.
Meanwhile, the budget process is dysfunctional, and most members are rarely involved in significant legislative work.
It said that voting machines were dysfunctional in 544 out of 12,300 polling places it monitored.
While blame for the dysfunctional transit system can largely be laid at the feet of Gov.
And the Republicans will probably still be the same dysfunctional and disappointing party it is today.
Over and over she put herself into dysfunctional relationships, trying to be one of the boys.
So it's not surprising that the administration's response to the coronavirus has been dysfunctional at best.
How government is so inept and so dysfunctional that they don't care about the local community.
In their place, a dysfunctional information ecosystem has emerged, characterized by polarization, addiction and conspiracy theories.
"The situation here has become so toxic that the church was basically dysfunctional," said the Rev.
But there's also this really interesting element to it, where they're like a big dysfunctional family.
This decision is, at best, premature as the country's energy plan and energy markets are dysfunctional.
Or have those disruptions spiraled into chaos and disorder, showing a White House that is dysfunctional?
Another person with knowledge of the situation said Mr. Immelt considered Uber's board to be dysfunctional.
So, is Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics — or is he part of the problem?
They're idiosyncratic, dysfunctional, stubborn, hilarious, and real — from the patriarch Henry to the prodigal son Leland.
The United States government has become dysfunctional to the point that gridlock is almost a cliche.
A while back, a member of Congress compared our supposedly dysfunctional politics to the American Revolution.
They also inherited a notoriously dysfunctional product line from the corner-cutting market gurus at McDonnell.
"My plans attack the root causes of our dysfunctional economy by rewriting the rules," she said.
"With a dysfunctional administration that's going to go from very hard to probably impossible," Bennett predicted.
And it still has a wonderfully portrayed cast of characters who put the 'fun' in 'dysfunctional.
Now in Season 3, the four Parkers have become one of TV's most endearingly dysfunctional families.
But at some point, if you're lucky enough ... Like, for example, my parents were deeply dysfunctional.
They're all a bunch of dysfunctional, strange people, so I'm not sure it's ... I don't know.
To many Republicans, Medicaid is a dysfunctional program that needs to be wholly restructured or repealed.
The Bitcoin community has been hampered by a dysfunctional culture that has grown increasingly hostile toward experimentation.
Depending on the results of the 2016 elections, this dysfunctional future could very soon become our present.
Meanwhile, Stubbs finds Theresa's body at the bottom of the same ravine they found the dysfunctional woodcutter.
RIVERA: Passed the Congress 360 to 59, one of the rare bipartisan deeds of our dysfunctional Congress.
They described the White House as "dysfunctional", "clumsy" and "inept", and its occupant as "radiat[ing] insecurity".
People with narcolepsy have a dysfunctional immune system that kills off the cells responsible for making hypocretin.
And the more dysfunctional it becomes, the more illegitimate it will seem to more and more people.
And a dysfunctional federal government waffling on plans to thwart future attacks on elections isn't helping matters.
Nearly every government since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 has proven corrupt, incompetent or dysfunctional.
If your interests are getting in the way of you having a social life, then it's dysfunctional.
In 2004, Tatum detailed her dysfunctional relationship with her father in her searing autobiography A Paper Life.
There is reason enough for Americans to lose some faith in what has been a dysfunctional Congress.
Pub date: March 26 A dysfunctional family awaits the death of its patriarch, in Attenberg's sixth novel.
Dysfunctional government policies, which have coincided with lower real interest rates, have pushed prices up (see article).
The sisters were raised in a dysfunctional household, reigned over by "big Kathy," which was Dugan's nickname.
For all that it is dysfunctional, Lebanon has limped along thanks to the pragmatism of its sects.
Years of underfunding, corruption and neglect have meant that the sector is largely dysfunctional, government critics say.
A big part of the debt problem stems from a dysfunctional relationship between central and local governments.
Getting the divided and dysfunctional Afghan government to do more to fight corruption is another crucial step.
"The military has a dysfunctional sentencing system that is archaic and results in widespread disparity," Christensen said.
That it is so surreal is an indication of how deeply dysfunctional our current political situation is.
And the more dysfunctional it becomes, the more illegitimate it will seem to more and more people.
Former BoE policymaker David Miles has argued that bond purchases work best when financial markets are dysfunctional.
Even at a time of unprecedented activism, politics can look like a "really dysfunctional place," she said.
Still, it's awful news for those addicted to the dysfunctional exploits of Hannah, Marnie, Shosh, and Jessa.
The UFC report also said that since 2015, cross-border power exchanges with Germany have been "dysfunctional".
Its member states are unable to muster support for a common strategy to reform its dysfunctional institutions.
The former British ambassador to Washington called his administration dysfunctional, unpredictable, faction-riven, diplomatically clumsy and inept.
It is true that the current research ethics system in the US is cumbersome, inefficient and dysfunctional.
Those nations have been dysfunctional, corrupt, impoverished, and crime-ridden for as long as anyone can remember.
It takes "What, Me Worry?" to a new level in promoting political ideas that are fiscally dysfunctional.
People aren't present, but you get the impression that a profoundly disadvantaged and dysfunctional family lived here.
Neither the Republican-controlled Congress nor President Obama has done anything to fix the dysfunctional immigration system.
Public transportation and waste removal services are dysfunctional, as the piles of garbage on Rome's streets attest.
Congress has taken a lot of flak over the years for being dysfunctional, often for good reason.
As it stands now, the country's flood insurance program, de facto backstopped by taxpayers, is structurally dysfunctional.
Programs for tuberculosis, malaria, chronic diseases, mental health and HIV/AIDS are "increasingly becoming dysfunctional," he said.
It has also used the U.S. Senate to stymie reform and render the Federal Election Commission dysfunctional.
The Trump administration is lucky that its dysfunctional national security apparatus has not encountered a real crisis.
Some Belgians lashed out at a flailing security apparatus and chronically dysfunctional government for abetting the tragedy.
Instead, detainees who are being prosecuted are subject to military commissions, which critics have decried as dysfunctional.
The dysfunctional nature of it all, like feeling it can all become unhinged at any given moment.
"It's quite unpleasant," said Thurber of this unpredictable yet dragging and utterly dysfunctional governmental state of affairs.
The dysfunctional 115th Congress has amplified a bipartisan call for real changes in the way Congress operates.
Today, of course, Iraq has a dysfunctional Shia-dominated government threatened by the Sunni terrorists of ISIS.
They hailed it as a sign that the Trump administration was too dysfunctional to get anything done.
For decades, as other regimes collapsed or curdled into dysfunctional pretend democracies, China's held strong, even prospered.
But its political system and its political class, however dysfunctional and sclerotic, are remarkably resilient as well.
They can also be highly effective medications that make the difference between a functional and dysfunctional life.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the antigovernment protests over the winter have faded, and the country remains dysfunctional.
"Sexy Sadie," and Leslie Van Houten each sought to escape their dysfunctional nuclear families in California's counterculture.
Not only that, but it's a problem that doesn't require action from the often dysfunctional federal government.
Three—it highlights how utterly dysfunctional our current politics is, how divided and broken the country is.
Yet aid for education has been falling since 2010, and in poor countries schools are often dysfunctional.
New Yorkers who can afford to avoid their dysfunctional subway system are spoiled for choice these days.
Being in a relationship that doesn't meet these needs is considered problematic and dysfunctional by anyone's definition.
Imperfect Partners The United States and China are locked in a mutually dependent, frequently dysfunctional economic partnership.
Fast-talking and fatuous, self-important and servile, he embodied the "commedia dell'arte" of Trump's dysfunctional crew.
Synopsis: The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
For many Trump loyalists, the issue is not whether his presidency is messy and chaotic and dysfunctional.
At the same time, the ratio of testosterone to luteinizing hormones decreased, a sign of dysfunctional testicles.
Congress now has the power to create more sustainable jobs by correcting decades of dysfunctional tax policy.
Claudia Durastanti's "La Straniera" ("The Stranger") recalls her upbringing in a dysfunctional family between Brooklyn and Basilicata.
"The Kelloggs" tells a good story of how an epically dysfunctional family produced two monumentally successful institutions.
A lot of the families are really dysfunctional and the aides have to deal with that, too.
But, he says love conquers all ... even in a dysfunctional unit that squabbles as much as his.
Look no further than the current dispute on Southern to see how dysfunctional the privatized system is.
What makes our current politics different, but not dysfunctional, isn't just that the stakes are less dire.
And the back story of a childhood that was "dysfunctional to the max," Mr. van Gelderen said.
"They saw a dysfunctional Democratic party, a president on the march and a Trump win," said Clifton.
Yet the Trump administration is unlikely to see any immediate breakthroughs in the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan.
The subways are rickety, the schools are dysfunctional, the rent is too damn high and getting higher.
These reforms, they think, could make the government's famously dysfunctional IT systems work a whole lot better.
These are uniquely American stories, and they are the key to understanding our dysfunctional health care system.
Jackson was instead picked by a dysfunctional organization that also has quite a bit of young talent.
A thoroughly independent board would provide a critical check on possible dysfunctional group dynamics, such as groupthink.
Often these concerns were dressed up as stories about dysfunctional families; sometimes they were just horror films.
Bosnia, for example, remains dysfunctional more than two decades after its war ended, divided by ethnic-based parties.
Rodriguez, now 20, testified that he came from a dysfunctional family and trusted Harrison, who students nicknamed "Rev."
" McNally wrote in his report that the sheriff's office command post was "severely dysfunctional" and "communication was difficult.
" He said it would be "ludicrous" to pressure Israel to make peace to create "another Arab dysfunctional state.
In a dysfunctional ecosystem, the challenge is the opportunity — there is nothing more exciting than creating new solutions.
The key problem is not a lack of intellect or business talent, but state inefficiency and dysfunctional institutions.
"I kind of came up in a very dysfunctional family, a lot of alcohol abuse, violence," he said.
Indeed, the appointees in every last cranny of this administration must question the dysfunctional enterprise they are enabling.
Technology has ended up strengthening a dysfunctional bureaucracy that desires efficiency through data it cannot seem to protect.
Day in and day out, he maintains a decaying space station and contends with a dysfunctional, boring crew.
The film comes off as this story about a small dysfunctional family with an obvious problem with communication.
That became a wonderful metaphor, because that vast difference between experience and concept is where the dysfunctional lives.
The infectious jam finds Tomlinson and Rexha "addicted to the drama" as they sing about a dysfunctional relationship.
We return to the dysfunctional Smith family as they reckon with the consequences of their biggest threat yet.
Stigma, impunity for attackers and a dysfunctional justice system has prevented many victims from speaking out, HRW said.
Even though governance in Bosnia can be dysfunctional, fears of a return to violence have a pacifying effect.
The documents are the product of a hasty, dysfunctional, thrown-together effort to put together a presidential administration.
Unflattering stereotypes of polyamorists as damaged, dysfunctional, or secretly coerced by pushy partners are all belied by research.
Separatists, backed by Russia, controlled a swathe of territory in the east and Ukraine's security forces were dysfunctional.
"This administration is toxic and dysfunctional," says Paul Musgrave, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"The overdraft market is dysfunctional, causing significant consumer harm," FCA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey said in a statement.
Among other things, he is developing a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama show about a dysfunctional Korean-American family.
Though the drama currently unfolding on the GOP side is more spectacular, the Democrats are just as dysfunctional.
Dodd-Frank, despite its hundreds of required rulemakings, did nothing to fix our dysfunctional and disjointed regulatory system.
They were just a family – a dysfunctional one, who had gone through as many good times as bad.
Many accurate words have been written about the amusingly dysfunctional Phoenix Suns since the season started last Tuesday.
Yet at a time when they should be celebrating, the movement seemed more fractured and dysfunctional than ever.
Yahoo was notoriously dysfunctional: at one point it had four different classified-advertising businesses, each using different technology.
That portends, in the longer term, a dysfunctional government and bunkered White House that lead to Trump's undoing.
Almost all communication from immigration courts comes through the mail and the Mexican postal system is notoriously dysfunctional.
"I think it's dysfunctional at a very high level," Rogers said of the panel in its current form.
I'd do it in full awareness that the E.U. is deeply dysfunctional and shows few signs of reforming.
"Forever putting the fun in dysfunctional ... Happy #Friendsgiving," Providence, Rhode Island radio host Bekah Berger said on Twitter.
Analysts say rampant corruption and a dysfunctional bureaucracy have prevented Congo from capitalizing on its prodigious mineral wealth.
Read more: The UK is investigating whether Russian spies hacked secret memos branding Trump 'uniquely dysfunctional' and 'incompetent'
"It's like a very dysfunctional family tree," she said, and pointed to some crosshatched lines near Mnuchin's face.
" She described her films as most akin to documentaries, "but they're totally dysfunctional — they don't tell you anything.
"It was not just my dysfunctional family that I couldn't trust, it was society at large," he said.
But people are still fascinated to hear about the struggle to survive in the tech industry's dysfunctional underbelly.
Despite the dysfunctional buses, the heat and the confusion, it actually ended up being a lot of fun.
The other is about as economically dysfunctional and politically repressive as it's possible for a state to be.
But multiple experts describe the ability of the Saudi forces to work alongside each other as uniquely dysfunctional.
They are notoriously violent and dysfunctional, operating even more opaquely than state-run facilities, while paying miserable wages.
He'll watch Ryan struggle leading a House as dysfunctional as it has been over the past six years.
Privatizations are generally unpopular in Brazil and would be unlikely to move swiftly through an often-dysfunctional Congress.
San Francisco had all three: support for local industry, an especially dysfunctional existing system and regulatory gray areas.
He had that almost hopeless love for the country that many immigrants who come from dysfunctional places have.
The dysfunctional democracies of the United States and Western Europe show little sign of being able to cope.
So that's when I started making the ceramic hammers, thinking about them quite literally: ceramic that is dysfunctional.
Critics occasionally described the HP board as dysfunctional and called for it to start over with fresh eyes.
Stephen Colbert took House Republicans to task for the contentious, often dysfunctional hearing that they convened on Thursday.
I would say that's my biggest surprise, how robust corporate profitability is, even with a quite dysfunctional Washington.
It's a bit like undergoing Stockholm Syndrome by slow degrees, hopefully in very small and non-dysfunctional doses.
The films of Mr. Iñárritu break from the moral optimism of Hollywood to portray a more dysfunctional world.
And that apathy allows for enduring injustice in the form of indefinite detention, tainted procedure and dysfunctional bureaucracy.
Her true passion is the fictional Berlozhniki, and she erects a perfect model of this dysfunctional Russian town.
Mr. de Blasio delivered a blunt speech in February, sharing the blame for creating a dysfunctional shelter system.
Computation is an essential technology, but the AI way of thinking about it can be murky and dysfunctional.
"We have tried to fix this through the dysfunctional bistate agency called the Port Authority," Mr. Figueroa said.
"A man with a deformed personality and a defective intellect runs a dysfunctional administration," as Bret Stephens writes.
But in their debates and public appearances, the field largely remains stuck in Mr. Trump's dysfunctional trade agenda.
Americans already recognize that the criminal justice is dysfunctional, and most Americans support programs that focus on rehabilitation.
Texas may not have the most corrupt state government, Wright says, but it clearly has the most dysfunctional.
All over this country, I have heard from Americans who have shared heartbreaking stories about our dysfunctional system.
Mr. Tambor plays the patriarch of the Bluth family, the dysfunctional clan at the center of the show.
It has also engendered some pity from those who see Congress as hamstrung by a dysfunctional White House.
In 2006, the world became privy to the dysfunctional family dynamics of the Carter family in the E!
But it is far from certain that the move will be enough to tame a dysfunctional White House.
That is more due to the dysfunctional politics of Washington than an inherent weakness of the U.S. economy.
Whatever the reason, they let a dysfunctional situation go on too long, undercutting the effectiveness of their team.
" Glennon has written that "judicial review is negligible" and "congressional oversight is dysfunctional" while "presidential control is nominal.
The show takes place on the fictional Iron River Ranch in Colorado and follows the dysfunctional Bennett family.
But they also demonstrate the chaos and unpredictability that Trump has injected into an already dysfunctional capital city.
Apple isn't the only tech company that's been rethinking how to address consumers' often dysfunctional relationship with technology.
"Laurel and Cara Maria's long-standing feud takes center stage for a dysfunctional Team USA," the network teases.
The commonwealth's funds have also been depleted by subsidized electricity, government inefficiency and a dysfunctional tax collection system.
If this year has taught us anything, it's that America's political system is more dysfunctional than previously thought.
The Texans easily manhandled dysfunctional Jacksonville Sunday, and they have a formidable multidimensional talent in quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Those are things that no chief of staff could do [anything about], that make the White House dysfunctional.
In its place was an afternoon more like a dysfunctional family Thanksgiving than a banal party building event.
But she wasn't terribly specific about what she found dysfunctional: We as Republicans need to own that truth.
As El-Erian makes clear, dysfunctional government bears a large share of the blame for our inadequate economic performance.
He has yet to fill nearly 200 foreign and national-security jobs, and policymaking in his administration is dysfunctional.
"To Err Is Human" changed that by showing that most cases of harm resulted from dysfunctional ways of working.
The most important theme that President Obama can address will be the dysfunctional political system within which he governed.
We want to hear that people are doing badly and we crave this vicious news cycle; it's very dysfunctional.
Housing affordability is good, but when homes get more expensive to replace than to buy, the market turns dysfunctional.
Hulu's Golden Globe-nominated comedy puts the fun in dysfunctional family, but even when it's awkward, it's always honest.
"But I am going to miss playing a hyper-dysfunctional, narcissistic, undeveloped, ruthless human being," the actress jokingly added.
The fact that it seems bound to go bankrupt yet again shows just how dysfunctional the program has become.
These have become increasingly hard to obtain in Venezuela as dysfunctional currency controls restrict the import of basic materials.
But a bevy of new faces and outsiders has, if anything, made the government more and not less dysfunctional.
Yes, you could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.
Housing affordability is good, but when homes get more expensive to replace than to buy the market turns dysfunctional.
Netflix has a strange new superhero series coming up that seems sort of like a dysfunctional, comedic X-Men.
It's been a wildly dysfunctional 14 years, and you're an entirely different magazine than when we first got together.
You feel cheated that Harley didn't get to dress down Joker in the movie over their entirely dysfunctional relationship?
And though Crane may be brilliant in his psychiatry career, it's his dysfunctional family relationships that make him relatable.
On May 10th Reinhold Mitterlehner, the ÖVP vice-chancellor, resigned and brought down the dysfunctional SPÖ-led grand coalition.
But they are also deeply dysfunctional places, where much of the population lives in a Hobbesian world of exploitation.
History shows that inequalities polarize society, leading to dysfunctional governance, and in the long run to riots and violence.
Many metropolises are dysfunctional: public transport is in decline, housing is scarce, pipes are decaying and water is contaminated.
Pompeo's defenders believe he's a gifted public servant trying to do the best job possible despite a dysfunctional administration.
"We think this has a very good chance," he said, describing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law as dysfunctional.
To the rest of the world, the episode offers the latest piece of evidence that America's government is dysfunctional.
Indeed, their relationship remains perhaps the most dysfunctional and least productive of any US president and Israeli prime minister.
A brain with 10% of its capillaries suddenly closed would be terribly dysfunctional, with widely distributed brain cell death.
On Monday's episode, which was filmed in April, Kelly found herself comparing her dysfunctional relationship to her parents' marriage.
In the meantime, tensions could keep rising, pushing up oil prices and further straining an already dysfunctional Middle East.
As more tech start-ups move into the city, its economic fortunes could change, but it remains dysfunctional. 10.
The man President Donald Trump hired to get his dysfunctional press team in line used to hate his guts.
But accusations of rampant rights violations, entrenched graft and dysfunctional public services have since fueled opposition to his rule.
In other words: Could we envision using it to revert the dysfunctional BRCA-22 gene, say, to functional version?
But one thing is clear: Iran, and not a divided and dysfunctional Arab world, is rising politically and economically.
The Arab spring has shown time and again that post-colonial Arab states are singularly dysfunctional (see page 41).
The result is an abstract expressionist masterpiece, perfectly capturing our dysfunctional relationship with technology and its suffocating capitalist trappings.
The 21995 budget process is looking more and more like another dysfunctional charade laying bare the internal party conflicts.
But the media has played up an untrue connection between successful leaders and their occasionally dysfunctional character and demeanor.
If this feedback loop were completely dysfunctional, the naked mole rat might not grow a normal network of neurons.
Now Donald Trump—a "nobody" but for his wealth and ambition—exemplified "stultification" and an ominously "dysfunctional, destructive" politics.
Also redacted were dozens of findings and recommendations that, when taken as a whole, suggest a profoundly dysfunctional agency.
My dad's family is fairly dysfunctional, and I was invited to Christmas, despite my disownment by my immediate family.
The military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, meanwhile, has created an even more oppressive and dysfunctional state.
Right now this debate about the increasingly dysfunctional London dame of metal trading is taking place behind closed doors.
Significant barriers to the private sector remain, meanwhile, including what investors describe as a dysfunctional bureaucracy and confusing regulations.
The state itself is dysfunctional in every way, but particularly in its capacity to protect its citizens from terrorism.
When switched on, the creatures scurry across the floor in a frenzy, like eager puppies or dysfunctional domestic robots.
While politics in Washington has degenerated into dysfunctional hyper-partisanship, it's increasingly our local communities that give us hope.
The relationship at the heart of "Hot Milk," that between Sofia and Rose, is as dysfunctional as they come.
Congress needs to address the dysfunctional tangle of overlapping regulatory agencies that is at the root of the problem.
Congress is notoriously dysfunctional, and regressive state governments are making it harder for voters to get to the polls.
Vegas is creating change inside your dysfunctional organization that otherwise would not have happened for years, if at all.
It's also a means by which you could introduce legislation to correct the worst impulses of a dysfunctional administration.
Overcoming dysfunctional patterns felt more within reach, and the group expressed motivation to continue therapy for their eating disorder.
"They've trafficked in alternative facts...they've been haphazard and downright dysfunctional," Schumer paused to shush tourists in the building.
The hope here, for Browns fans, is that this is the coda to their time as a dysfunctional organization.
Overgoor had plenty of experience with rewiring nerves as a reconstructive hand surgeon, getting dysfunctional digits to work again.
I saw it as a dysfunctional family show first in the way maybe Wes Anderson did The Royal Tenenbaums.
Insurance plans expect the market to become dysfunctional if healthier Americans were to lose the incentive to sign up.
Was this related to a dysfunctional team or to this officer's inexperience or lack of emotional maturity and control?
"America's tax code is a total dysfunctional mess," Trump said at a rally for the tax plan last month.
But this is New York, and the politics surrounding the subway are almost as dysfunctional as the system itself.
We also should curb the dysfunctional National Flood Insurance Program, which encourages people to live in low-lying areas.
Unless the relationship is dysfunctional, a spouse or close companion is inevitably going to have the chief executive's ear.
For years, he said, he's watched an increasingly dysfunctional music business fail to mentor artists for the long haul.
He creates the thing he purports to fear and to solve: a class of socially dysfunctional and alienated immigrants.
More from Tonic: "My family became dysfunctional because we were unable to process our mother's death," Perrine-Gifford says.
"It may have seemed dysfunctional, but that doesn't say anything about whether they loved each other," Mr. Edmonds said.
The experience of Aeroflot, the Russian airline and a tenant at Terminal 1, illustrates how dysfunctional the situation became.
For years, it has been criticized by locals and travelers as dark, dysfunctional and even chaotic during rush hours.
Almost Family, premiering on Fox on October 2, is a show about a 21st-century kind of dysfunctional family.
It has created a largely dysfunctional federal government and helped to elect the least qualified president in American history.
And like many across the country, we're frustrated with both major parties and the state of our dysfunctional politics.
Not so fast: Other signals suggest that President Trump's national security team remains as weak and dysfunctional as ever.
And "Shattered," an account of the 2016 election, depicts Hillary Clinton's campaign as dysfunctional and outlines its many mistakes.
Bernhardt replied to Kendall on Thursday, blaming the delay on a "dysfunctional" documentation process dating from the Obama administration.
And along the way, let's overhaul the dysfunctional Federal Elections Commission so that it works again for the people.
Characteristically funny and cleareyed, Ms. Fisher fielded questions from readers on bipolar disorder and dysfunctional marriages, among other topics.
"The direct consequence is on the AIF's role as financial-intelligence unit, which is now dysfunctional," says Mr Brülhart.
And hypercorrectors, in particular, think that judicial checks hamstring them in their effort to overhaul a dysfunctional status quo.
It is not because the Republican Party has become dysfunctional that we see so little good in our governing.
Even as it will lose its second-largest economy, the dysfunctional E.U. is far from dead, our writer says.
It comes as Verma is also facing heightened scrutiny over her increasingly dysfunctional relationship with HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
I've implored local and state politicians for help (especially for the dysfunctional bus system) for years to no avail.
The excerpts prompted backlash from Trump and White House officials seeking to downplay claims of a dysfunctional White House.
The Obama administration and the UN policy of actively forcing Somaliland back into a dysfunctional "united" Somalia are odious.
If new energy markets can't make a symphony of these varied assets, the result could be a dysfunctional cacophony.
The billions in infrastructure projects are proving as dysfunctional and short-lived as the peace we said we'd bring.
A post-apocalyptic, dysfunctional machine, her sculpture conjures both associations of her materials' use values and something more primordial.
The EPA "is so dysfunctional these days that all the 'normal' protocol seems to have disappeared," another told me.
Her family had presumed she had just left home because she had come from a dysfunctional and difficult family life.
"It's just a reminder of how utterly dysfunctional the federal government is," said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.
Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done.
In a dysfunctional team, you don't quietly sit down and hash out disagreements with Human Resources over coffee and bagels.
That is, women are routinely preyed on by men who often evade appropriate punishment in a dysfunctional criminal-justice system.
Graham called the hyper-partisan Supreme Court nomination process "dysfunctional," but said Republicans should be happy with those four candidates.
Even the better teams playing this weekend were dysfunctional or lopsided or otherwise weird enough not to get a bye.
This is usually less of a product "A-Ha!" and is more likely an arbitrage opportunity in a dysfunctional market.
He and other top White House officials have said repeatedly in recent months that the asylum process has been dysfunctional.
The Ab Fab brand the comic misadventures of two boozily dysfunctional middle-aged fashionistas apparently never goes out of style.
But in those with dysfunctional pulvinar activity, thoughts, emotions, and attention crash into one another, causing unnecessary suffering and confusion.
" Kelly says he has researched the shooter, learning he "grew up in an abusive, shame ridden and dysfunctional poor family.
And finally, there's Steven and Olga, two dysfunctional 20-year-old cuties who met one carefree summer and got pregnant.
The 164-page report paints a picture of a dysfunctional department whose officers disproportionally use force against blacks and Hispanics.
There is mounting evidence that negative rates undermine investor and business confidence, since they signal how dysfunctional the economy is.
Taeyoon's robots seem to obliquely remind the observer that a case could be made for AI as a dysfunctional technology.
So the numbers are reaching a point at which it's almost impossible that even our dysfunctional bipartisan system can ignore.
Bernie Sanders tweeted that he wanted to "abolish the cruel, dysfunctional immigration system," which he said would mean "restructuring" ICE.
The dysfunctional government has been unable to provide consistent services such as 24-hour electricity, tap water or garbage disposal.
Staff described the organization as "dysfunctional" and had witnessed "'deceitful', 'two-faced', 'egotistic' and/or 'belligerent'" behavior from senior staff.
Many blame a dysfunctional government for the ease with which IS captured Mosul and the surrounding countryside two years ago.
I got to grips with the FlexPai today and I was amused by how dysfunctional most of its software was.
The researchers eventually concluded that what distinguished the ''good'' teams from the dysfunctional groups was how teammates treated one another.
The premise alone was too alluring to miss — could these two wildly dysfunctional characters beat the odds and get together?
It is particularly corrupt and dysfunctional in all its forms and we have been battling against this all these months.
Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and does not expect that to change.
Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and did not expect that to change.
For that, economists blame Chavez-era economics, including dysfunctional currency controls and botched nationalizations, that Maduro has refused to reform.
The Meyerowitz Stories — Noah Baumbach's film about a dysfunctional New York family that hits Netflix Friday — is a classic dramedy.
The Favourite may center around a dramatic and dysfunctional royal court, but it's unlike any other period piece before it.
Frankly, the less said about frequent Sesame Street guest star Kermit and his dysfunctional relationship with Miss Piggy, the better.
Alongside her TV work, Markle has also had smaller roles in films like Remember Me, Dysfunctional Friends and Horrible Bosses.
"I thought they could [quit] if they wanted to," says Burnett, who became a people-pleaser in her dysfunctional family.
But both its staff and its patients are victims of the sort of dysfunctional health system common in poor countries.
Consider a scene near the start of "A Lie of the Mind", a drama about dysfunctional families set in Montana.
The apology is mealy-mouthed at best, because Flaxman and HP insist that making a functional product dysfunctional is ok.
How to make dysfunctional love last forever is a self-help book I'd personally be very, very interested to read.
Back in 2007, TV viewers flocked to cinemas to see  their favorite dysfunctional family  break on to the big screen.
"It's actually a little dysfunctional that Ralph is defining himself based on how another person feels about him," he said.
The violently dysfunctional family that lives there wouldn't be out of place in one of Rob Zombie's "torture porn" movies.
" They describe the White House as a "uniquely dysfunctional environment" and predict that Trump could face further "disgrace and downfall.
But this sweeping Luca Guadagnino film is also an exploration of money, dysfunctional families, and of course — hearts' wild desires.
"Tomorrow we will hold a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Oreskovic as this government is dysfunctional," Karamarko told reporters.
Published on April 18, Allen and Parnes' book makes bold claims of a dysfunctional campaign that was plagued by infighting.
But in Libya with its dysfunctional state, pipelines have sometimes been blocked by 20 or fewer people, industry sources said.
They're led by Plumeria and Guzma, who have a kind of dysfunctional mother/father dynamic with the peons underneath them.
Scott walks Kourtney to the cart and true to their dysfunctional form, they seem pretty okay with the evening's events.
News Corp recently accused Google of creating a "dysfunctional and socially destructive" environment for journalism by profiting from fake news.
The International Monetary Fund applauded Lisbon for reforming a dysfunctional court system which had been a brake on the economy.
Last year, a study from the Harvard Business Review actually said that 75 percent of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional.
"I admit that Washington is horribly dysfunctional, " said Scott in scripted remarks made available ahead of his announcement in Orlando.
As well-intentioned as the renegade House members might be, they will likely be defeated by their dysfunctional party leadership.
Bloomberg Politics reported a variety of embarrassing details on Wednesday about Trump's dysfunctional relationship with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
But it is absolutely dysfunctional for the rest of the population and is in dire need of a general rethink.
As a result, a significantly large number of women stay in marriages that are unhealthy and even border on dysfunctional.
The CW's "Gossip Girl" is known for its fashions, dramatic feuds, and, most notably, its powerful and oftentimes dysfunctional relationships.
When Mr. Obama first met Mr. Peres, they traded notes on how dysfunctional each of their political systems really was.
A fascinating retelling of "King Lear," the Australia-based Malthouse Theater sets the family tragedy within a dysfunctional Aboriginal clan.
At the center of this earnest novel are the dysfunctional childhoods of three siblings in mid-twentieth-century South Dakota.
A prime example of how out of touch, and dysfunctional these offices dedicated to enhancing the student experience have become.
Other major red flags, as Burgess wrote in the study cited above, involve job security, dysfunctional teams and poor leadership.
You appreciate Ronald Reagan for his charm and friendships across the aisle, but can't ignore how dysfunctional his family was.
The idea of Wotan and his dysfunctional family of gods as aristocrats losing their hold on power is not new.
Yet the Senate bill would take our already-dysfunctional system of long-term care and make it worse - much worse.
" He remembers Oprah once asked him on her show about his dysfunctional family growing up, and he thought, "What's that?
Not satisfied to stop there, Williamson adds: The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die.
So higher education will have to bite some bullets by challenging long-honored practices that have become pretty clearly dysfunctional.
While I was there, I had been making these dysfunctional ceramics, tools that would force you to question their utility.
Their home was "dysfunctional," and a passage that describes Chyna's father, who was an alcoholic, stabbing LaQue is also accurate.
Why it matters: It will be the most dysfunctional G7 meeting — by a long margin — since the first in 1975.
Their version of political craziness is rooted in the faith that even a dysfunctional system has some logic, some coherence.
Now, our fears lie outside — in dysfunctional algorithms, in a climate out of joint, in bombs triggered by unstable fingers.
It neither makes our government less dysfunctional, nor is it likely to inspire Gorsuch or Kavanaugh to behave less ideologically.
Once brutalized by dictatorship under Saddam Hussein, the country became even more dysfunctional, difficult and dangerous for its people afterward.
Later, things grow less enchanting — anchored in the realities, from dysfunctional to horrific, of Romania in the 1970s and '80s.
She'd been working at a series of increasingly dysfunctional San Francisco startups while at the same time experiencing worsening migraines.
But it was a difficult record to make because we had a very dysfunctional relationship with our producer [Steve Osborne].
Their creative alliance is the film's core, the quiet, non-dysfunctional love story woven through the glitter, excess and heartbreak.
But in some ways, real estate in Akron and many other Midwestern cities is so cheap as to be dysfunctional.
They fail to simplify the current confusing and dysfunctional administrative system that makes up 17 percent of health care expenditures.
With Parliament as divided and dysfunctional as it is at the moment, agreeing on something this fraught could be difficult.
No matter how dysfunctional an N.F.L. team is, there's potential for fantasy value on any team in any given matchup.
They also believe in the bigger mission and vision of the film about showing the dysfunctional aspects of American society.
The ruling sends a blunt message of rejection to visa seekers from some of the most destitute and dysfunctional countries.
In fact, I'd say the siege mentality explains most of the dysfunctional group behavior these days, on left and right.
Conant's wife, Grace (Patty) Richards, was temperamental, erratic and a distant if not completely dysfunctional mother to her two sons.
My dad was an alcoholic, and the family was somewhat dysfunctional until about the time I got into high school.
Pawnee, Indiana, where Knope helped run the Parks Department, was a depressed, dysfunctional city just south of the Rust Belt.
Few Iranians are optimistic that the election will help end a cycle of poverty and turn around a dysfunctional economy.
But Knicks fans directing this much ire at their former star means letting a dysfunctional front office off the hook.
"Fitim Ladrovci should never have been released," says Makolli, who blames Kosovo's dysfunctional bureaucracy for hindering his counter-terrorism efforts.
"The Republicans are dysfunctional, they're in total disarray and that's why America knows this is a Trump shutdown," he added.
Former CIA director Leon Panetta said Wednesday that he has "never seen a Washington as dysfunctional as it is" now.
Still, for a brief period at its height, Fashin was a stiletto-in-mouth dysfunctional family where opinion was king.
"It was, to begin with, the most dysfunctional White House in modern history, and now it's worse," Mr. Whipple said.
Italy now provides the dysfunctional Libyan military — which works with militias and human smugglers — with patrol boats, training and intelligence.
Americans' frustration with the situation has fed our angry, dysfunctional politics and, in turn, the country's retreat from global leadership.
Reforming the primary system would go a long way toward making televised shouting matches curious relics of a dysfunctional age.
The twisty plot turns on the dark impulses lurking in female bonds and the lethal stress of a dysfunctional workplace.
Years ago, I served on such a board in France, and saw just how dysfunctional and non-productive it was.
Recently, we read about one of those in Natalie Beach's confessional about her dysfunctional friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway.
In his final show, "The Lyons," by Nicky Silver, he played Ben Lyons, a dying man in a dysfunctional family.
Denied the chance to marry her first true love Peter Townsend, she entered into a dysfunctional and ultimately doomed marriage.
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So what CEO worth their salt is going to want to come into a board like that, that's so dysfunctional?
But few predicted where things stand now, either: The European Union, if still ailing and dysfunctional, is far from dead.
The ambitions and the frustrations of the contestants flowed freely, fuelled by the alcohol, and Shapiro found a dysfunctional home.
Rebecca Babin, a senior energy trader at CIBC Private Wealth Management described the OPEC plus meeting like a dysfunctional family.
The twisty plot turns on the dark impulses lurking in female bonds and the lethal stress of a dysfunctional workplace.
Even in its highly dysfunctional state, the Senate provides a great deal of comfort and support — both logistical and psychological.
I trust that enough people recognize that it's better to have a dysfunctional republic than to have nothing at all.
"I think he handled it as well as anybody could handle it, given a dysfunctional Congress," Mr. Meadows told reporters.
It also illustrates how dysfunctional the weapons procurement process and arms industry are in the world's second-most-populous country.
That's a recipe for a dysfunctional White House, and it's something that has always been part of Trump's management style.
The result, he writes, is a dysfunctional system that encourages corruption and rigs the game in favor of Big Business.
He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could.
A major reason is that these dysfunctional behaviors don't elicit serious physical symptoms of withdrawal, such as anxiety or illness.
Critics have said that incompetent policies, such as dysfunctional currency and price controls, and rampant graft are behind the crisis.
He was certainly not the muscly ogre in the center of a dysfunctional relationship; that was thick-necked Ronnie Magro.
The Scarlet Knights have been an unmitigated disaster this season, perhaps the most dysfunctional men's basketball program in the country.
His bloc's performance represented a rebuke to a political elite that some voters blame for widespread corruption and dysfunctional governance.
Government is dysfunctional and the immigration issue has become a symbol for how elites are out of touch with the mainstream.
But where it matters, the state is, in the words of the American Department of Justice, "largely lawless, weak and dysfunctional".
These patients had the most severe symptoms (such as kidney damage), a very dysfunctional metabolism, and were typically overweight or obese.
I hope my roommates love Jen as much as I love Jen and we can be one big happy dysfunctional family.
By the time investors moved to demand Kalanick's resignation in June 2017, observers were calling Uber the world's most dysfunctional startup.
For this season, only four contestants were together on the trip – and three of them were from the dysfunctional Brawn tribe.
Unlike the dysfunctional relationship that Becky has with her bandmates of Something She, Akergirls share more of a sisterly, close bond.
The home was made popular thanks to the '80s classic in which Prince played a rising rocker with a dysfunctional family.
The Ab Fab brand – the exuberantly vulgar misadventures of two boozily dysfunctional middle-aged fashionistas – apparently never goes out of style.
Just pumping up the dollar signs around America's existing largely dysfunctional system for transportation spending is another kettle of fish entirely.
That has forced Mr. Obama to repeatedly assert his executive authority in the face of a sometimes dysfunctional Republican-led Congress.
In 2011, for example, Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency, cut America's sovereign credit rating, citing its soaring debt and dysfunctional politics.
Marriner feels safe among friends, and almost seems to enjoy discussing his dysfunctional love life and his moribund career with them.
"This often takes the form of recurring fights that repeat the same dysfunctional dynamics in a seemingly endless loop," she said.
America's is too dysfunctional, and Britain's too distracted by Brexit, to focus on improving education, infrastructure and the competitiveness of markets.
This would reinforce the euro area's dysfunctional economic governance by strengthening yet again a forum governed by the rules of unanimity.
The protests are a manifestation of widespread anger at decades of corruption, dysfunctional government and the deterioration of basic public services.
But that puts a lot of faith in Republicans becoming less dysfunctional and more willing to cooperate with a Democratic president.
Annie Hall Breaking the fourth wall, Woody Allen invites us into his dysfunctional version of dating and love in New York.
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Saturday, calling the House Intelligence Committee chairman "dysfunctional" over his handling of the panel's Russia probe.
No matter how dysfunctional politics become, conventional wisdom holds that everyone in DC can still agree and act on veterans' issues.
But for a bitterly divided board of directors at a dysfunctional yet highly innovative company, compromise may be what Uber needs.
Also, NJJN encourages people looking to take action to get involved at the federal and local level to change dysfunctional policies.
The dysfunctional Sacramento Kings will try to avoid a sixth straight setback when they visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday.
Governments have tended to respond to a dysfunctional bureaucracy by creating islands of excellence, such as central banks and finance ministries.
When Americans think of dysfunctional places they imagine cities like Detroit, where large areas are literally in ruins, says Mr Pipes.
In a Washington that is universally regarded as dysfunctional, we all too often see good policies delayed and the process stagnate.
When she did "King Lear" here last year, she presented Shakespeare's violently divided royal clan as the dysfunctional family next door.
Gordon uses PURE as a montage of the trauma that's shaped her, leading us through her dysfunctional relationship with her parents.
The terms "inner child" and "dysfunctional family" became part of the nation's lexicon and were widely assumed to be his creations.
The millions of human beings who remain trapped within our dysfunctional and discriminatory justice system deserve our best efforts, even now.
But after the last years of extreme polarization and dysfunctional governance, are Americans still convinced that their democracy cannot be upended?
Why would I want to turn her into a stressed-out, dysfunctional, crazed young adult all in the pursuit of "prestige"?
Since America's political system is particularly dysfunctional at the moment, it would appear to be in particularly urgent need of reform.
It is caused by a set of obviously dysfunctional economic policies held in place by a government unwilling to change course.
There are many factors — poverty, inadequate nutrition, drug and alcohol abuse, dysfunctional families and so on — that adversely affect student learning.
After all, terrorism is kept alive by a warped narrative that features the notion that the West is corrupt and dysfunctional.
Decades of unfunded entitlement promises, demographic changes, and a dysfunctional political process combine to drive the federal budget deep into debt.
The abrupt ouster of national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday demonstrates just how dysfunctional President Donald Trump's White House is.
Likewise, the Social Security administration's planned revamp of its Disability Case Processing System wasted nearly $21625 million for a dysfunctional product.
Under Obama, the department was initially scandal-plagued and dysfunctional, as bureaucrats covered up long wait times for patients requesting care.
Congress should instead demand the US government calibrate assistance to capacity: give aid to functioning systems; deny it to dysfunctional ones.
Rather than distracting from the important national debate over our dysfunctional health care system, this shone another light on its importance.
I wasn't ready to deal with the pain of my divorce, so dating a dysfunctional guy was a nice subconscious distraction.
Martin Andanar, Mr. Duterte's communications secretary, said critics in the West should recognize how dysfunctional the Philippine judicial process has become.
A spokesman for Mr. Joko, Johan Budi, denied that the judicial system was dysfunctional, saying the executions had followed legal procedures.
The passage of tax cuts late last year also helped undercut arguments that his relationship with Republican lawmakers was hopelessly dysfunctional.
If this isn't a red flag for the current dysfunctional and wasteful health-care system, frankly I don't know what is.
Younger voters are the ones being hurt the most by this partisanship, because the partisanship means we have a dysfunctional government.
"Some eventually decide to undergo an amputation if there is severe pain in the limb and it is dysfunctional," he said.
You've got monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, government-run markets, price-fixing — all the dysfunctional behaviors that lead to rapid increase in prices.
The military commissions system at the base has proved to be dysfunctional and incapable of getting contested cases swiftly to trial.
Our dysfunctional unholy family is headed up by an entirely new trio of vampires, who each have analogues in the film.
He described the country as "a dysfunctional state" where citizens do not feel any ownership of the notoriously clogged public administration.
The fact that the events are going to be staged less than two months apart is tennis at its most dysfunctional.
The agency was already "dysfunctional," Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine, wrote on Twitter.
Alfred Hitchcock abused actresses who worked for him, so openly that you can see his dysfunctional psychosexual power dynamics right onscreen.
It's hard to argue that America's tribal democracy is not dysfunctional these days, but still the United States is a democracy.
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it requires a dysfunctional system to produce and enable Ghosn's overreach.
An anti-business, anti-development and anti-mainland China ideology permeates debates in the legislature, which has become fractious and dysfunctional.
JERUSALEM — To many outsiders, Israeli democracy must appear as dysfunctional and chaotic as some of the political systems in points West.
"The dysfunctional communication network created lots of problems, especially during polling day," said Muhibullah Muhib, a police spokesman in Farah Province.
Alexander Vindman has seen the inner workings of the National Security Council, no matter how dysfunctional it may be at times.
At some point in the mid-aughts, it became commonplace for even the most dysfunctional eighties and nineties bands to reunite.
Created by British screenwriter Jesse Armstrong, Succession revolves around the extremely dysfunctional Roy family, billionaires who own a global media empire.
That may be because corporate managers seek greater safety — and limit risk-taking investment — when the political system seems particularly dysfunctional.
To wit: Congress itself is an angry dysfunctional crowd, and those attending town hall meetings are treating its members as individuals.
But United States officials were far more worried about supporting the dysfunctional Greek state than Mr. Kammenos's recent comments would suggest.
She's since redeemed herself, but this is a dysfunctional family which created these children, who are really looking for unconditional love.
My colleagues and I have zeroed in on one specific aspect that might help explain America&aposs dysfunctional discourse: moral grandstanding.
In a Thursday earnings call, CEO Robert Thomson lamented the "dysfunctional, and sometimes dystopian" digital media environment into which News Corp.
This has led to highly dysfunctional House and Senate tax bills reflecting big donor demands at the expense of sound policy.
We are identifying at-risk children and dysfunctional families — assessing, addressing, mitigating, and eliminating many basic causes of substance use disorders.
"The gravamen of the problem still exists and will not be solved by personnel changes at the dysfunctional White House," Rep.
It is a testament to the dysfunctional relationship between the executive and legislative branches that the authorization has yet to pass.
According to a recent Times expose, she wasn't helped by a campaign operation that was a dysfunctional mess behind the scenes.
The aggravated callers take it out on the workers, who must multitask among dysfunctional, incompatible computer systems while empathizing and upselling.
" Trump pointed to two suspects in recent terrorist attacks in New York City as examples of the country's "dysfunctional immigration system.
She'd want things to be less dysfunctional than the family she had growing up, but she likes the idea of stability.
Just as unfair traffic stops can test faith in the criminal justice system, dysfunctional lines may undermine belief in American elections.
The halting progress is emblematic of the country's larger transportation problems — its potholed roads, dysfunctional subways, dilapidated bridges and shabby airports.
Editorial On Friday, President Trump named John Kelly chief of staff, presumably to bring order to an increasingly dysfunctional White House.
Laumann later expanded on this study and claimed that 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men were sexually dysfunctional.
Still, there's a certain dysfunctional ring to it: I've spent more than a year's graduate school stipend on my Starbucks habit.
Putting something like this in the context of a gallery brings up an notion of functional/ dysfunctional, and it happens simultaneously.
"The number one issue for Tennesseans has got to be the overarching issue of how dysfunctional Washington has become," said Bredesen, 74.
These people are predominantly people of color and lower income citizens who also bear a higher burden of the dysfunctional healthcare system.
Like I mentioned, the Fold Your Hands period was essentially dysfunctional and I just wanted to quit, but Storytelling was really good.
For us, ultimately, the story, even aside from the technology, is about this dysfunctional family that needs each other in some permutation.
If I've learned anything from Marie Kondo, it's that folding my laundry is the first step to fixing my (imaginary) dysfunctional marriage.
"I found a letter upstairs that said we were dysfunctional people and she didn't want us in her life anymore," Tomaszewski says.
"To come back and begin again with this old, extended, dysfunctional family was a really nice way to begin again," she said.
This time Harris ran a dysfunctional campaign; she had a moment after attacking Joe Biden but was unable to capitalize on it.
The questions of its story stumble by the end, but it has more to offer: a rare, thoughtful dive into dysfunctional relationships.
And I mean literally just like him: white, Western, from dysfunctional families with histories of violence and run-ins with the law.
The third is that these two reinforce each other: the further she moves into unfamiliar territory, the more dysfunctional her approach becomes.
Finally, eventually the electorate is going to realize that in an age of dysfunctional government, effective leadership capacity is the threshold issue.
A new retrospective charts the graphic novelist's journey from her dysfunctional family's funeral home to being appointed Vermont's Cartoonist Laureate in 20183.
"Four in One Sculpture" (1998), is a dysfunctional barrier made of a painted white wood plank with 17 plastic sawhorses straddling it.
That leads to a particularly tense talk between the two women, who rehash every reason why their relationship is the most dysfunctional.
That was the story of the first six years I was here, which was: dysfunctional system, we can still get things done.
This is significant in a stagnating global economy, in which markets can become dysfunctional and volatile due to increased central bank intervention.
Non-state groups, such as Islamic State (a misnomer), can take and hold, at least for a while, territory from dysfunctional governments.
"The gun issue is tough, but Congress is dysfunctional," he says, noting that no major legislation has passed through Congress this year.
It is yet to be seen what will happen when communities with dysfunctional police departments choose not to tackle the problem themselves.
As the eldest daughter of perpetual screw-up parents, Fiona found herself in the unglamorous position of holding her dysfunctional family together.
The_Donald is not uniquely dysfunctional in the history of Reddit, but it is unique in Reddit leadership's continued tolerance of its behavior.
Admitting that Ukraine is corrupt and dysfunctional would prompt uncomfortable questions among American voters about their country's involvement and sanctions against Russia.
The second illustration of the iron law is that, however dysfunctional the Downing Street machine seems, the reality is still more chaotic.
That's how we posited it right from the beginning — the people are rising up against a government they find to be dysfunctional.
Faced with that challenge, or that of homegrown would-be jihadists, Belgium is afflicted with uniquely complex, and uniquely dysfunctional, security services.
Born the bastard child of dysfunctional amplifiers, its unmistakable fuzzy squall has since gone on to define countless careers (and entire genres).
If you find yourself complaining about having a dysfunctional board, or you distrust the member's motivation, it always boils down to communication.
These ideas have a common theme: American institutions — its banks, universities, and political system — have become so dysfunctional that they're beyond saving.
However, while Christie is concerned about Washington being perceived globally as a dysfunctional place if the investigation drags on, Bernstein is not.
He says his parents couldn't continue to witness the organization gradually decline into what he alleges is a reclusive and dysfunctional group.
We had long, deep dysfunctional patterns: guilt trips, self-medicating, self-loathing, and retreating into work to distance ourselves from the problems.
With Argentina looking dysfunctional and under-performing throughout the qualifiers, Messi's dream of matching Maradona in Russia always looked a tall order.
Yet, while millions of families suffer, Congress has failed to fix our dysfunctional immigration system because of politics, prejudice, and unearned complacency.
I am not suggesting that we fight the Kurds' battles for them or that we substitute ourselves for a dysfunctional Iraqi state.
This is our drive to cling to an identity with which we are familiar, even if it is dysfunctional and personally damaging.
For them, the old system and ways of behavior were so corrupt, dysfunctional and distant, that just tearing them down is enough.
There are some offices where professional pressure to drink is A Thing—but they're (a) fairly rare and (b) toxic and dysfunctional.
And once Bran's powers are widely known, who wouldn't want an all-knowing time-traveling demigod Stark to fix these dysfunctional kingdoms?
The two comedians play half-brothers—each wrestling with his place in their dysfunctional family—and, yes, they end up exchanging blows.
Wilde employed satire to reveal how a dysfunctional relationship with guns in the US connects with the semiotics of the Wild West.
The candidate later called out New York's dysfunctional electoral machinery, which resulted in purged voter rolls, closed polling stations, and long lines.
Chamberlain oversaw the reform of the exchange's dysfunctional warehousing system, a similarly complex series of intertwined problems that split the LME community.
Compare this with the agonies of Brexit Britain, Germany's dysfunctional coalition and faltering economy, or the political paralysis of Italy and Spain.
The result was a still more dysfunctional government, with agencies under the president's control refusing to communicate with ministries under Mr Wickremesinghe.
And Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer.
We believe that the people also are very, very upset with the dysfunctional Congress, the gridlocked Congress that is not addressing issues.
However, a less crisis-driven, last-minute, ad hoc approach to budgeting is unlikely until the existing dysfunctional process has been changed.
Haley successfully outmaneuvered a weak and publicity shy secretary of state and a dysfunctional State Department to hog the foreign policy limelight.
He seems to understand that these changes, at a minimum, are necessary if his dysfunctional country is to have a better future.
Sometimes monogamous, heterosexual love can override the absence of one of these stipulations, but lacking both is often only depicted as dysfunctional.
"The opposition remains a haphazard, dysfunctional coalition of parties with diametrically opposed ideologies that cannot agree on basic policy platforms," he said.
Given this dysfunctional reality under the ACA, it's remarkable that neither major political party has a plan to truly fix the situation.
Despite many complaints about the dysfunctional government, there is still hope that President Ashraf Ghani has the ideas to lift the economy.
In an increasingly dysfunctional state crippled by corruption and conflict, the Catholic Church has become one of the country's few effective institutions.
Critics have called the commissions dysfunctional and slammed them for not delivering justice more than 85033 years after the 9/11 attacks.
After 15 years of dysfunctional U.S. development schemes costing over $100 billion, Afghans remain near the bottom of most human development indices.
Yet only thoroughgoing single-payer reform can realize the healing potential that is currently thwarted by our dysfunctional health care financing system.
The show takes place in a fictional Colorado town, and follows a dysfunctional rancher family and their interactions with the local townspeople. 
But if you think our system is deeply dysfunctional, then saying we're going to reform it sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Since then, I have not lifted a finger to help the dysfunctional GOP Senate, which seems to be on a suicide mission.
You have parents that have been dysfunctional your whole life, and you're just trying to figure out life through success and money.
Her familiarity with both cities animates "The Nest," about the four dysfunctional (what did you expect?) Plumb siblings and their fiscal expectations.
It has pretty special effects, and it's about a dysfunctional family of scientists who are going to be almost dying a lot.
It's not worth the strain in your heart and it starts to bleed into your other relationships and it becomes super dysfunctional.
Marin is wary that labeling female premature orgasm as dysfunctional could give women yet another reason to feel ashamed of their sexuality.
The danger begins, Morell says, with a dysfunctional economy and a rapidly growing population of young people without education or job prospects.
Many Venezuelans are disillusioned and angry over the election: They criticize Maduro for economic hardships and the opposition for its dysfunctional splits.
But this is not an isolated incident – it is just another symptom of a greater problem: a weak and dysfunctional legislative branch.
Unfortunately, because of his focus on average costs, even Sanders has understated the true costs of our corrupt and dysfunctional healthcare system.
But unless you are covertly doing research for a screenplay about a dysfunctional office, I'm guessing you don't want this to escalate.
But it has long frightened Americans away from using the Constitution's chief mechanism for bypassing Congress and curing our dysfunctional federal government.
But Mr. Mac is also a playwright, recently represented Off Broadway with "Hir," a well-reviewed comedy about a wildly dysfunctional family.
Now, with Republicans showing little aptitude for fixing an expensive, dysfunctional health system, more voters, doctors and politicians are walking through it.
So I felt a guilty shudder of satisfaction reading Williamson's vituperative 2016 attack on the dysfunctional small towns that supported Donald Trump.
But other increases arose from a dysfunctional budget process manipulated by a defense industry that woos Congress with unneeded or extravagant weapons.
Abadi's efforts to replace those party affiliates with technocratic outsiders have been stymied by bickering in an increasingly dysfunctional and divided parliament.

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