Sentences with phrase «highly dysfunctional»

«We strongly believe the consumer should have options, but we remain confident that after 105 years, the reason our brand has been successful is because consumers understand real estate is a highly dysfunctional and complex process, unlike other industries.»

Fact: «Controlling for predivorce parental socioeconomic and psychosocial resources fully accounts for poorer child mental health at initial interview among children whose parents later divorce... a significant interaction between parental divorce and predivorce levels of family dysfunction suggests that child antisocial behavior decreases when marriages in highly dysfunctional families are dissolved.»

These families had a history of highly dysfunctional relationships.

Recent published articles in the New York Times from Dylan Farrow, and subsequently in rebuttal Woody Allen, have brought into the light allegations that have arisen from what appears to have been a highly dysfunctional family environment.

Highly dysfunctional families that include children are often dysfunctional due to the family environment being negative.

Indeed, prior research suggests that, in families that are highly dysfunctional, divorce represents escape from a toxic environment that leads to improvements in child well - being.»

Prevailing models of the etiology of disorganized attachment emphasize the role of highly dysfunctional parenting, to the exclusion of complex models examining the interplay of child and parental factors.

Roger Smith, whose time at Chancery Lane overlapped with my own, describes that Law Society era as «highly dysfunctional, pretty much at every level».

In 1976, Rich took the helm of a highly dysfunctional and much - reviled San Francisco SPCA and transformed it into a beacon of the no - kill movement.

It's a little - known fact that the p - word can also make people highly dysfunctional in many other ways, without ever making them obnoxious.

The New Orleans public school district was highly dysfunctional.

Pre-Katrina, the New Orleans public school system was highly dysfunctional, and student test scores made it the second - lowest - ranked district in the second - lowest - ranked state in the country.

Much can be said of Ricci's performance for her portrayal of a highly intelligent, highly dysfunctional «anti-heroine» - she creates a character that is so abhorrent, yet you can not help but feel pity for her.

Even better is the return of the guttural sound of The Blaster Beam, Craig Huxley's instrument so familiar to fans of «Star Trek: The Motion Picture» and «Dreamscape,» Given that much of the action is driven by dialogue and character, It says something about Trachtenberg's confidence in McCreary's musical storytelling ability that the whole opening plays only with score with score, setting up a highly dysfunctional nuclear family, locked in by doomsday.

Yes its a tale of a despicable man and a highly dysfunctional family, but regardless, I love every minute of this comedy whether it be a scene of pain or pleasure.

And it is a rich and layered 71 minutes that Potter spends, in black and white, with a group of highly educated and highly dysfunctional people gathering for an intimate dinner party at Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Bill's (Timothy Spall) London house to celebrate Janet's appointment as the shadow minister for health.

But such an animal would have been highly dysfunctional: «There's something moving.

[One point of universal agreement: the task force has been highly dysfunctional.]

Germany loudly proclaimed not to use Dublin but it's making virtue out of necessity, it was already highly dysfunctional.

It's clear now that only under the most extreme of circumstances will we ever rid ourselves of Wenger's antiquated, uninspiring and highly dysfunctional regime.

And in fairness to the 29 - year - old, he has often had to cope with being part of some highly dysfunctional Gunners squads during his four years at the Emirates Stadium.

The same labels lay at the feet of all three, and why shouldn't it, they all started from the same group of people, it's a large highly dysfunctional family.

But, «pedophilia» is highly dysfunctional, and being gay wasn't, in fact, being gay seemed as much «born that way» as heterosexuality, or being a blonde, or having good spatial acuity.

Again, the litmus test for a narcissist or a highly dysfunctional interlocked system (xian author / speaker / conference circuit minor celebrities) is the ability to admit wrong, apologize and move forward.

There will be a small percent of highly dysfunctional parents who will not take responsibility for selecting a school.

Matthew came to Covenant House at the age of 17 after being pushed out of a highly dysfunctional home.

Her mission: Take a highly dysfunctional set of executives and turn them into a highly functioning leadership team before the company implodes or she gets fired.

Not exact matches

Even «Dr. Doom» himself, New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, has picked up the theme, arguing that the downturn has exposed Russia as a high - growth imposter with «highly leveraged banks and corporations» and «rust - belt infrastructure» plus «dysfunctional and revanchist politics and a demographic trend in near - terminal decline.»

Having skin in the game is paramount as most of the dysfunctional firms we've come across have succession issues, with highly concentrated ownership among a few individuals.

TA concepts are useful growth tools all along the wholeness continuum, from relatively dysfunctional to highly functional persons.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

We have transformed the state government from dysfunctional to highly functional, a deficit to a surplus, and losing jobs to gaining jobs,» Mr. Cuomo said.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

The only distraction here is Morgan Hook and the dysfunctional Paterson Administration who would rather us believe that State Workers are highly paid fat cats who do nothing!

When the team transferred microbiota from a mouse with such dysfunctional ILC3s into a completely germ - free mouse, the recipient animal was highly susceptible to infections when later exposed to harmful bacteria.

Moreover, there are yet other cell types — such as visceral adipose tissue macrophages and cytotoxic CD8 + T - cells — in which the age - related supernumerary accumulation of dysfunctional and apoptosis - resistant cells appears to play a highly deleterious role on tissue function, but where the cells are not «senescent» cells in the classical sense of p16Ink4a expression and the senescence - associated secretory profile observed in senescent fibroblasts.

None of it would be possible without the extraordinary cast & crew of this highly functional dysfunctional family.

This is a highly controversial and unpopular stance, especially on the left, which ascribes disadvantaged children's poverty and academic troubles to oppressive social structures and defective institutions and is suspicious of projects that blame disadvantage on dysfunctional cultural norms.

[For those that prefer their absurdity straight - up, The Atlantic built a highly entertaining Netflix Genre Generator that spits out such must - see gems as: «Dysfunctional - Family Psychological Space - Travel Slashers Set in Biblical Times About Marriage Directed By Herbert Ross»,» Gangster Disney Thrillers Based on Bestsellers For Ages 0 to 4» and «Tearjerker Thrillers Based on Books From the 1940s About Cats».]

The legal services market is highly inefficient, if not dysfunctional.

These internalizations form the core of self - concept and in the context of trauma, lead to highly negativistic and unhealthy personality formations and thus dysfunctional interpersonal dynamics.

The highly structured climate in families of adolescents with diabetes: Functional or dysfunctional for metabolic control?

-RRB-, child trauma cases are often highly charged and ``... this can cause problems for therapists who are susceptible to splitting, or parallel process, rescuing, collusion and other dysfunctional behaviors.

They also scored more highly on two other measures of cognition (dysfunctional attitudes and negative automatic thoughts).