Sentence examples for a dysfunctional city from inspiring English sources

But that absence had also created a dysfunctional city.

In a dysfunctional city, he has become a character in urban folklore and has inspired numerous memes with the headline, "It is Chirtoacă's fault" about things that go wrong in the city, the country and the world.

Possibly one of the best reads about the spirit and excesses of Wall Street in the midst of the neoliberalist boom, it is a "hell of a read, an uproariously funny tableau vivant of a dysfunctional city", according to Pazuzu.

It's a dysfunctional city," Caruso, who once considered a run against Villaraigosa, told me the other day.

That's because, thanks to a dysfunctional city bureaucracy, residents have to pay dearly either in time or money for every basic service, particularly for safety.

Add the fact that we have a dysfunctional city government culture -- where the Mayor refuses to engage the Board of Supervisors, Gavin Newsom is running for Governor and is preparing every move with an eye on the statewide electorate -- and we have a genuine recipe for disaster.

The idea behind this room is to offer a place for Londoners to gather, if only through the medium of a television camera, for the kinds of serious, big-family sit-downs that go along with governing a sometimes dysfunctional city of more than seven million -- a city so decentralized, in fact, that until three years ago it never had an elected mayor.

Pawnee, Indiana, where Knope helped run the Parks Department, was a depressed, dysfunctional city just south of the Rust Belt.

IN 1969, in the midst of devastating strikes, rising racial conflict, sinking finances, terrifying crime rates and an expanding, dysfunctional city bureaucracy, the pugilistic writer Norman Mailer made a quixotic bid for mayor of New York.

I decided to run for office after getting fed up with a, to my mind, dysfunctional city council.

But is a magazine company that has its own troubles merely changing the subject by putting on a safari helmet and buying a house in the most dysfunctional city in America?