Sentence examples for a dysfunctional way from inspiring English sources

This is without question a dysfunctional way of practicing politics.

The OFT found evidence that insurers compete in a dysfunctional way that may push up premiums for drivers by £225m a year.

But the absence of a micro-payment system led to the evolution of the web in a dysfunctional way: companies offered "free" services that had a hidden and undeclared cost, namely the exploitation of the personal data of users.

"The woman who loved me for me told me I had a dysfunctional way of showing I love someone.

"Some of this is normal teen development, but being drawn to a criminal is a dysfunctional way to forge independence".

EMS consist of memories, emotions, cognitions and physical sensations that influence thinking and behavior in a dysfunctional way and are stable over time, even after evidence-based treatment of depressed patients [ 23, 24].

One gets the impression that, given the choice, he would like to find a less dysfunctional way of working.

The ex-Treasury adviser, who was sacked for plotting to spread smears about senior Tories, warned that Labour currently has "no clear idea who its target audience is, no positive messages to communicate to anyone about why they should vote for the party, no policies which will persuade them, and is being run in a totally dysfunctional way".

We considered estimated values ≥4.4 30 as indicating a potentially dysfunctional way of using defense mechanisms.

It is an intolerant, dangerous, dysfunctional way to treat the past and sits uneasily with the image Madrid likes to project as an open, diverse and transparent city of the future.

It needs to be a collective effort and is probably the moment when family tensions emerge in that lovely dysfunctional way that only a close death can inspire.