Sentence examples for sort of dysfunction from inspiring English sources

The term suggested that a particular sort of dysfunction was native to urban environments and, possibly, inseparable from them.

What sort of dysfunction can appear in the market when sellers can cheat buyers, and some people know more than others?

And even if it does seem like there has been, in the electronic footprint age, a notable increase in scandals, there really is a line between ordinary lives of rationalized peccadillos and compartmentalized dysfunction and the other sort of dysfunction: an operatic dysfunction, that creates a narrative which really does make a scandal.

This sort of dysfunction was on display last year after the Office for Human Research Protections, a regulatory branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, halted a University of Michigan study of a simple five-step checklist to prevent infections at health centers.

This sort of dysfunction isn't new, but the shutdown has raised the stakes on partisan sparring.

The sprawling Castro clan, made larger by Fidel's early extramarital affairs, suffered from the same sorts of dysfunction and disagreements afflicting so many other families: siblings who don't speak, adults resentful over childhood slights and murky talk of babies born out of wedlock.

This sort of political dysfunction is hardly new in India and, in recent years, the economy was booming even as the politicians dithered.

"Well, it's true, there is a history of mental illness that runs through my family and through the whole human family, and the likelihood of my children having some sort of mental dysfunction is pretty high.

And thinking about Zen, he wondered about a Jewish man who talks while alone in a forest: "Is he still wrong?" Mr. Roman said he was not too impressed with the sort of erectile dysfunction drug that promises to work for 36 hours: "At my age, I'm looking for a snappy 20 minutes".

"It's sort of the dysfunction of Congress at work — or not working," said DeFazio, explaining that the House and Senate often passed many of the individual bills in a bipartisan way, only to have them stall in the other chamber.

Germline mutations in the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene result in a significantly increased risk of developing EOC and a large proportion of sporadic EOCs display some sort of BRCA1 dysfunction.