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- adverb In a
dysfunctional manner.
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Examples
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Another benefit for European nations, Todd says, would be throwing off the domination of Germany, which he describes as dysfunctionally psycho-rigid, and so focused on its own national interests that it no longer cares about ruining its euro partners.
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But to resolve the competing, vague lines of authority in the intelligence, war fighting, diplomatic, stabilization, and development functions of government, Panetta could have been a modern day James Forrestal in getting government to work better and less dysfunctionally on these tasks.
Steve Clemons: Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps Steve Clemons 2010
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Does any other democracy in the world operate this dysfunctionally? bob mcmanus Says:
Matthew Yglesias » If Conrad-Gregg Is Our Only Hope, Then We’re Doomed 2010
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But to resolve the competing, vague lines of authority in the intelligence, war fighting, diplomatic, stabilization, and development functions of government, Panetta could have been a modern day James Forrestal in getting government to work better and less dysfunctionally on these tasks.
Steve Clemons: Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps Steve Clemons 2010
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But to resolve the competing, vague lines of authority in the intelligence, war fighting, diplomatic, stabilization, and development functions of government, Panetta could have been a modern day James Forrestal in getting government to work better and less dysfunctionally on these tasks.
Steve Clemons: Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps Steve Clemons 2010
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"Loudoun's roads are already dysfunctionally congested, and that's just based on the growth we've experienced so far," resident Tom Simmons said at the hearing.
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As displayed above, there's simply one caveat: the marriage in question needs to be dysfunctionally gay.
Steven Shehori: The Prop 8 Monologues, Vol. 2 of 2: The Law is Gay 2009
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And reorganizing agencies should be accompanied by a restructuring of congressional oversight responsibilities so department officials don't have to answer to a dysfunctionally high number of bosses.
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In an argument which echoes Danny Kruger's On Fraternity, Blond states: Look at the society we have become: we are a bi-polar nation, a bureaucratic, centralised state that presides dysfunctionally over an increasingly fragmented, disempowered and isolated citizenry.
The Red Tory theologian and conservatism's captivity to liberalism Burke's Corner 2009
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The addict is ever absorbed with getting their next fix; that's how they maintain their equilibrium, albeit very dysfunctionally.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Narcissism In A Bottle: The Self-Centeredness Of Addiction 2009
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