The E.U. could potentially be left with a permanently dysfunctional member state on its eastern flank.
One of the first companies to recognize that cable lines could deliver torrents of data from cyberspace, At Home has been considered a highly promising, if slightly dysfunctional member, of the Internet vanguard.
In a way, he said, it's "somewhat like working with a dysfunctional family member" in that the two will sometimes quarrel and disagree, but without worrying that a permanent rift will result.
With the EU's common border policy increasingly dysfunctional, member states are taking matters into their own hands.
"Sometimes you have a dysfunctional family, dysfunctional family members, but at the end of the day, we understand that we are all one family and we are all home now.
When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights, Groening went in another direction, hurriedly sketching his version of a dysfunctional family, named after members of his own family.
The nastiness arose when the cops found they weren't dealing with a dead gang member from a dysfunctional home, but with the exemplary teenage son of a respectable, God-fearing couple.
The other first-timer on the list to have set her book in Wales is Tiffany Murray, whose novel, Happy Accidents, described as by Boyd Tonkin in the Independent as a "psychedelic Cold Comfort Farm", tells the dark coming-of-age tale of Kate Happy, youngest member of a dysfunctional family living in a farm on the English-Welsh borders.
There are circumstances in life that you can't control, i.e., being born into a dysfunctional family, losing your family member at a young age, becoming a victim of an unforeseeable accident, or having a cancer.
The 2002 Gang of Four briefings left a hodgepodge of contradictory recollections that, to some Congressional staff members, reveal a dysfunctional oversight system.
