Sentence examples for dysfunctional ways from inspiring English sources

Some people do not understand our dysfunctional ways.

Despite Albany's often dysfunctional ways, there were allies to be had, coalitions to be assembled.

In a recent series, The Times's Robin Pogrebin detailed many of the commission's dysfunctional ways, including inadequate record-keeping, protracted delays and a lack of transparency.

"I was shocked," said Mr. Ehrenhauser, an independent member of the European Parliament, who describes himself as a "friend of a common Europe" but a foe of its current spendthrift and often dysfunctional ways.

BARELY six months after a general election that was supposed to give the country a degree of democratic legitimacy, Pakistan is slipping back in to its raucous, dysfunctional ways.

We may not know precisely what set Mr. Cho off, but we are beginning to home in on the unusual differences in certain neurochemistries that can make people act in bizarre and dysfunctional ways.

This is without question a dysfunctional way of practicing politics.

AT LAST, it seems, something is to be done about the dysfunctional way America's patent system works.

AT LAST, it seems, something is to be done about the dysfunctional way America's patent system operates.

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

The Crutcher family is represented as loving and stalwart in that allowably dysfunctional way of the Eisenhower era.