Sentence examples for Malfunctioning from inspiring English sources

Police said on Friday that the men told investigators they were forced to live in the garage, which had one chair, no bed and a possibly malfunctioning air conditioner, so their captor could cash their public assistance checks.

Grumpy nurses and teachers create an impression that the services they work in are malfunctioning.

GM believes the Volt's battery problem was caused by malfunctioning sensors rather than chemical reactions going haywire within the cells themselves.

According to pessimistic analysts, Gazprom belongs more in this gallery of malfunctioning gigantism than among blue-chip global companies.

It probably doesn't help that the soundtrack is malfunctioning.

It has been malfunctioning much as usual on the mere wreckage of one since March 23rd, when President Boris Yeltsin sacked his prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the cabinet with him.

The combination of malfunctioning domestic finance, weak regulation and erratic economic policy is perfectly designed to get the worst out of financial openness.

Pressure is also building up within the reactor, but the release valve is malfunctioning, he said.

Virtually every arm of the state, from schools to tax-collection agencies, is malfunctioning.

This year they have obliged, with a steady supply of big-screen explosions, malfunctioning submarines and scenes where men cradle oversized guns ("The Sum of All Fears", "The Bourne Identity", "K-19 The Widowmaker").

And he complained that their issued AK-47s were malfunctioning Czech imitations and his men had to rely on locals for food and shelter.