It's dysfunctional.

Dysfunctional Disarmament

Europe s Dysfunctional Growth Compact

How can a family get dysfunctional?

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.

I've become very familiar with its dysfunctional behavior.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To be sure, an improvement in the currently dysfunctional financial system will allow banks and other financial institutions to start lending to borrowers who want to spend but cannot get credit today. This will help, but it is unlikely to be enough to achieve positive GDP growth.

We have to understand that today's conflicts are the product of non competitive, dysfunctional economies marginalized by globalization, leading to tremendous social exclusion and environmental degradation, to the extent that the entire national market system becomes non functional and leads to the collapse of the State.

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.

To this end, eurozone leaders must take three key steps. The dysfunctional system of European fiscal governance should be dismantled fiscal responsibility should be returned to member states and, to minimize the risk of excessive future lending, private lenders should be required to bear the losses implied by unsustainable sovereign debt.

Okinawans were already furious that the Democratic Party of Japan led government broke its pledge to relocate the Futenma Air Base. But, with Japan s political system mired in a protracted transition under a dysfunctional two party regime, recent governments have been unstable and weak, unable to satisfy either side s demands.

The need to not recreate the backward, non viable primary economy and to create a new competitive economy should also guide the institutions of the international financial system, which up to the present have focused more on economic adjustment than on modernizing economies that are dysfunctional within today's competitive global economy.

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.

India, with which Pakistan shares a similar background, went through 40 years of dysfunctional democracy with a one party system. But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral commission gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.

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.

These insecurities are in addition to those that have long confronted Americans. In the country s inner cities, millions of young Hispanics and African Americans face the insecurity of a dysfunctional and unfair police and judicial system crossing the path of a policeman who has had a bad night may lead to an unwarranted prison sentence or worse.

Disintegration in the Arab Middle East reflects the region s failure to find a path between the bankrupt, secular nationalism that has dominated its state system since independence and a radical brand of Islam at war with modernity. The fundamental problem consists in an existential struggle between utterly dysfunctional states and an obscenely savage brand of theocratic fanaticism.

In the days, weeks, and months ahead, the arrangements to remove chemical weapons from Syria will, one hopes, begin a new era in which the US and Russia work together on other pressing global issues as well. A cooperative US Russia relationship is essential if the international system, now almost dysfunctional, is to work properly in the future.

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.

It was obvious that the lending channels in the banking system had become dysfunctional excessively restrictive borrowing conditions were suppressing demand. In response, the ECB did precisely what any central bank would have done we acted to restore the relationship between our monetary policy and the cost of borrowing, aiming to bring down the average rate that households and firms have to pay.

But, for the West, applying long term vision requires more than recognizing the imperative of strategic decision making it also demands efforts to revitalize polarized and dysfunctional domestic political systems. In the United States, there is no question that the lack of strategic vision displayed in Obama s foreign policy is at least partly a result of his need to navigate a defective system.

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.

America faces long run and short run problems decaying infrastructure, weakening educational systems, and a dysfunctional health care system that produces sub standard outcomes at twice the cost of any other industrial country. Solving any of these three problems would go a long way toward resolving the long run financing imbalance between current tax rates and America s long run social insurance promises that the debt ceiling debate s instigators supposedly want to address.

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.