It's dysfunctional.

Dysfunctional Disarmament

Europe s Dysfunctional Growth Compact

How can a family get dysfunctional?

I've become very familiar with its dysfunctional behavior.

Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family.

So, you can imagine how traumatized and how dysfunctional the houses are where our children come from.

In addition, measures are needed to ensure that decentralization does not lead to fragmented and dysfunctional landscapes.

It means that reconstruction should not replicate the dysfunctional economy that had caused the State to fail.

My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

The Commission on Human Rights is dysfunctional and devoid of credibility deliberations on human rights have suffered accordingly.

Or is the explanation for Israel s current predicament to be found on the more prosaic terrain of the country s dysfunctional democracy?

The full realization of civil and political rights is also difficult owing to under resourced administration of justice and dysfunctional penitentiary systems.

I could give many examples to illustrate that dysfunctional situation, but this is not the place or the time to go into detail.

Intensive community consultation and involvement in planning processes from the outset would reduce risks of costly planning mistakes and the creation of dysfunctional settlements.

Looking around, leaders like this seem to be an extinct species. Or, if they exist at all, they appear to be constrained by dysfunctional political systems.

The Conference on Disarmament, for its part, faces a crisis of relevance resulting in part from dysfunctional decision making procedures and the paralysis that accompanies them.

While we remain very much committed to a Conference on Disarmament that is fulfilling its responsibilities, we will not resign ourselves to a dysfunctional Conference on Disarmament.

The problem with these patents is that the mechanisms are obscure and the patent system is dysfunctional, and as a result, most of these lawsuits end in settlements.

Silence, and even collusion, is also typical of sex crimes within a family. Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

The Social Services Department in the Ministry of Social Affairs refers children to day care centers due to dysfunctional family situations these day care centers also care for working mothers' children.

Today, Somalia remains a dysfunctional state, as rival clans, jihadists, and an interim government with Ethiopian support compete for power. The US, now out of the quagmire, exercises limited influence from afar.

Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance, owing to a dysfunctional ethos. If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites complicity in widespread impoverishment.

But it is an illusion to believe that we can combat the dysfunctional politics at the root of grave human rights violations by military means alone, or even by economic sanctions, without fully utilizing diplomacy and persuasion.

Most regulators and market participants agree that Europe's financial markets are dysfunctional. With banking assets amounting to roughly 300 of EU wide GDP, compared to some 70 in the United States, large pools of savings are being left unused.

As a result, the US is wasting some of its most valuable assets, with some young people bereft of skills turning to dysfunctional activities. American states like California spend about as much on prisons as on higher education and sometimes more.

I've just got to say it to you all I found all of my family in my adult life. I spent all of my adult life finding them, and I've now got a fully dysfunctional family just like everybody else.

The possible conclusions are stark. One possibility is that those investing in financial markets expect economic policy to be so dysfunctional that the global economy will remain more or less in its current depressed state for perhaps a decade, or more.

From India s perspective, Iran is an important neighbor with which it can ill afford to rupture its relationship. Indeed, India already seems locked geographically in an arc of failing or dysfunctional states, confronting it with external threats from virtually all directions.

The international community has, so far, failed to develop effective and equitable arrangements for restructuring sovereign debt, despite the clearly dysfunctional and problematic consequences of past international public debt crises. This prevents timely debt workouts when needed, effectively impeding recovery.

In the late 1990 s and the early years of this decade, the problems that incited fears of a dysfunctional state seemed to fade. But over the past 18 months, the specter of Weimar has once again begun to haunt Russia.

The problems that contribute to the occurrence of this crime can be found in the low socio economic position which borders with poverty and the desire for fast and easy earnings, low level of education, lack of information, dysfunctional families, etc.

They simply do not care about others the way most people do, and the dysfunctional processing of oxytocin in their brains appears to be one reason for this. Because bastards are out there, we still need government and personal enforcement of economic exchange.

But the education system has been unable to provide enough of the labor force with the necessary education. The reasons range from indifferent nutrition, socialization, and early childhood learning to dysfunctional primary and secondary schools that leave too many Americans unprepared for college.

In short, Putin who is no economic expert makes all major economic policy decisions in Russia, delivering orders to top managers of state owned enterprises and individual ministers in ad hoc, one on one meetings. As a result, Russian economic policymaking is fragmented and dysfunctional.

Seemingly lacking a central nervous system, it has become a dysfunctional creature with little capacity to recognize any common national, much less international, interest. Under such circumstances, even a brilliant leader, with an able staff and promising policies, will be unable to pursue his agenda.

As dysfunctional as a decentralized Europe seems to be these days, India might benefit from moving a few steps in that direction, even as Europe itself struggles to become more centralized. Devolution might sound unrealistic, but once upon a time so did the European Union.

But if the path of war is finally taken, and, in its aftermath, the international community fails once again to pacify the world s most dysfunctional region, the Middle East would devolve into an unruly chaos far more dangerous than the threat of an Iranian bomb.

Even in the best of times, Lebanon muddles through with a politically dysfunctional government and an army that operates in the shadow of a large Shia dominated militant organization. With the exception of Iran, none of Iraq s neighbors wants to see that model in Iraq.

But, with 90 days left to bridge the ideological and partisan divide before another crisis erupts, the fuse on America s debt bomb is getting shorter and shorter. As a dysfunctional US government peers into the abyss, China America s largest foreign creditor has much at stake.

Unemployment and household debt remain stubbornly high. The fiscal drag from rising taxes and spending cuts will hit growth, and the political system is dysfunctional, with partisan polarization impeding compromise on the fiscal deficit, immigration, energy policy, and other key issues that influence potential growth.

Japan s deflation and economic stagnation over the last two decades stemmed largely from a dysfunctional financial system and a lack of private demand. The collapse of asset bubbles in the 1990 s left Japan s financial system and private sector saddled with a huge debt overhang.

If the US is eclipsed any time soon, this will more likely be due to its loss of social cohesion and its dysfunctional politics. China might well step in to fill that vacuum, but that is quite different from being able to elbow America aside.

The Legal Indicator Survey goes beyond the law on the books and assesses how the legislation, together with the local institutional framework (including rules of procedure, courts and judges and insolvency administrators), in each country works to create a functional (or dysfunctional) insolvency legal regime.

This is particularly the case when naïve assistance serves to reinforce a dysfunctional status quo. Although Deaton supports select initiatives, particularly for delivering medical and technological knowledge, he questions whether the vast majority of aid passes the basic Hippocratic litmus test of first do no harm.