Sentence examples for dysfunctional power from inspiring English sources

But surgeons' dominance in the operating room can also be problematic, creating dysfunctional power dynamics.

In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009, Taleb, 2007).

Charging whatever California's dysfunctional power market will bear, people in this narrow stretch of the Northwest have created a kind of Kuwait along the Columbia.

That insecurity has been brought into sharp relief by the threat of increased gas prices from Russia, at a time when European renewable energy targets and a dysfunctional power supply pose their own challenges.

The shaky island government, spendthrift in the past, will have to convince Washington that it is reform-minded, as with the recent resignation of the head of the dysfunctional power authority.

He develops strategies of resistance and resentment: refuses to speak or toilet-train – and this last triggers a violent episode which establishes Eva's upper-hand in their dysfunctional power relation, but makes her complicit in a lie and a coverup.

Political analyst Pedzisayi Ruhanya says Mr Tsvangirai's current successes and failures are all rooted in the dysfunctional power-sharing government in which he had little time and opportunity to manoeuvre.

The reality is that "democracy is not synonymous with holding elections" but when an election that is categorized as "free, if not entirely fair" is considered acceptable the message seems to be that a dysfunctional power-grab for personal gain is ok, as long as it takes place within the legitimizing structure of democracy.

A factory worker in Nigeria produces less than he would in New Zealand because the society around him is dysfunctional: the power keeps failing, spare parts do not arrive on time and managers are busy battling bribe-hungry bureaucrats.

Power is most often abused when both the perpetrator and the victim share dysfunctional beliefs about power.

He will have full control over the dysfunctional Board of Education, with power to appoint 8 of 13 members, including the chancellor, who would be the board's chairman.