Sentence examples for dysfunctional such as from inspiring English sources

Some of their encounters are crazily dysfunctional – such as the couple who mime a brutally comic cartoon fight, playing sports with each other's body parts.

When renal tubules are dysfunctional, such as when tubular epithelial cells rupture, NAG is released into the urine and thus NAG activity can be used as a possible biomarker of kidney damage [ 18].

The need to maintain VEGF activity in a particular concentration range during angiogenesis has motivated the use of therapeutic interventions to regulate VEGF activity when natural regulation is dysfunctional, such as during diabetic wound healing and tumor growth.

Additionally, WRN is thought to play a role in telomere maintenance (Wyllie et al., 2000; Johnson et al., 2001; Opresko et al., 2002; Crabbe et al., 2004), which might be particularly important in situations when telomeres become dysfunctional, such as cellular aging.

It is there thanks to the way that even a dysfunctional democracy such as ours works: because it is a huge issue, and millions don't like it.

And perhaps this is the show's appeal – the pleasure viewers get in placing themselves above dysfunctional figures such as Mick and Mairead Philpott.

Families have been broken up by dysfunctional policies, such as evacuating pregnant women and young children, but not fathers and older children.

Each story portrays a different aspect of socially dysfunctional America, such as the ritual of the cocktail hour, bogus artists, and the erosion of intellectual rigour by popular culture.

Together, we reveal the protective function of RAS-RAF signaling in neuronal atrophy is mediated by activating MEK-dependent autophagy, which is protective and helpful against neuronal atrophy by cleaning protein aggregations and dysfunctional organelles, such as mitochondria.

This becomes unhealthy when the purpose is to enable or hide dysfunctional habits, such as infidelity, overspending or substance abuse.

The old Constitution, with its totally dysfunctional amendments, such as term limits, the two-thirds rule, and laws restricting how the General Fund is spent, is a straight-jacket on the state suffocating its vibrancy and turning off citizens to the very concept of "representative" government.