Sentence examples for appear dysfunctional from inspiring English sources

Right now the Super Bowl runners-up appear dysfunctional in more ways than one.

The party's goal is to make Washington appear dysfunctional and then claim that the problem is Obama, in order to make the case that voters should throw him and his party out.

"These crises look to me like they're generated by folks who have a very aggressive anti-government agenda and it's in their interests both for government to appear dysfunctional, or even be dysfunctional, as well as to create national alarm about deficits and debt," Bernstein said.

It was meant to ensure that the Obama government appeared dysfunctional and broken and prove the argument that Obama is ineffectual, weak, and unable to reach across the aisle.

As the meeting drags on, both sets of parents appear highly dysfunctional and combative.

The Lakers are about to lose one of the greatest minds in basketball history, and they appear too dysfunctional to do anything about it.

When the governmental, economic, and other institutions upon which we depend appear highly dysfunctional and unable to address any of the significant challenges we face, from nuclear proliferation to global hunger to persistent economic disruptions, let alone prioritize climate change as the challenge that poses the greatest threat if we don't act immediately?

In a game that might not have caught their attention or piqued their interest beforehand, the Nets drew on a source they will need often: the desire to prove they can win with the core that captured the past two Eastern Conference championships, but has appeared almost dysfunctional in the past month and lost Alonzo Mourning to a kidney disease this week.

"When we appear to be dysfunctional, as we have in recent times, it makes it hard to be the model for the democratic, capitalistic model we say we want to be in the world," he added.

The Refugee Council's chief executive, Maurice Wren, said: "It's wholly inappropriate that at a time when the rest of the EU is working together to relocate arrivals away from the countries on Europe's borders whose asylum systems appear to be dysfunctional, Britain is trying to send asylum seekers back there".

However, not all forms of repetitive thinking about a negative event appear to be dysfunctional.