| Perched on the edge of the fragmenting Roman world, Britain between ad 300 and 700 was at a meeting of currents flowing from several directions. |
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| What this beast of crime is doing to us is further fragmenting the fabric of our society. |
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| The excess angular momentum can be accommodated by fragmenting the cloud, a process that leads to a binary or multiple-star system. |
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| Sliding and colliding, separating and fragmenting, great trenches are forming, and volcanoes and vents are being created. |
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| Mr Shean felt that there were very real dangers in this situation with a fragmenting relationship. |
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| What impression can voters have of a party that is fragmenting and apparently collapsing? |
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| Charles' great empire collapsed steadily, fragmenting into dozens of pieces. |
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| In a society that seems to be fragmenting even as we watch, the kind of community spirit you find in clubs like this is priceless. |
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| In addition, viscometric measurements perturbed assembly by fragmenting filaments. |
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| The KMT actually began fragmenting in the late 1980s when Lee, upon taking control of the party, proceeded to systematically purge mainlanders from the senior ranks. |
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| Such solidarity turns a fragmenting problem into a potentially common thing. |
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| This unresolved debate could be construed as a contributing factor to the fragmenting of support for the arms control and disarmament agendas. |
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| In an age where media is fragmenting, becoming more specialised, a station with as broad a remit and geographic reach as Radio Scotland increasingly looks like an anachronism. |
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| Berlusconi was not present at the hearing, which analysts had billed as crucial for his ability to reassert control over his fragmenting party. |
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| Following Hammurabi's death in 1750 B.C., the old pattern emerged once again of Mesopotamian empires fragmenting after the passing of their founders. |
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| Try as she might, she can't keep her troubled family from fragmenting. |
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| He started fragmenting and faceting the human figure, which eventually gave birth to cubism. |
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| The wind spreads and elongates the slicks, eventually cutting them up into windrows and then fragmenting them. |
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| When each failed to win control of the central state, the locus of conflict shifted to major strategic resources such as cities and ports, fragmenting the clan alliances. |
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| Roads are a major force in fragmenting the habitats of plants and animals. |
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| And there is no documentary evidence that we will improve the quality of Government by fragmenting it and scattering it across the countryside, he said. |
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| In fact it has led to waste in public spending and to 17 sets of business regulations, fragmenting the national market and increasing costs. |
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| Mr Van Rompuy thinks the banking union ought to cover the whole of the EU to avoid fragmenting Europe's single market in financial services. |
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| Television still has a fragmenting nature about it in Canada due to bilingualism and more recently in specialty channels which cater to our multicultural population. |
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| Today, we can see that the agreement concerning this directive has stopped the European market from fragmenting. |
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| Many organizations direct their aid to a limited number of diseases, and this weakens the national health systems by fragmenting them. |
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| Low levels of interconnection have the effect of fragmenting the market and are an obstacle to the development of competition. |
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| These influences can be seen as broadening, complicating, and fragmenting the previous dominant but limited role of the public police. |
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| Labour laws are being amended in ways that are fragmenting unions, making it more difficult to hold unity on issues. |
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| Rather than fragmenting the book, however, these somewhat chronological chapters are passages, giving definition for and direction to the migration. |
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| As the money-hungry youngsters fight to claim an early inheritance, Penelope embarks on a journey of peace and order to save the family that is fragmenting about her. |
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| It's fragmenting, the new technologies are changing how information is handled the pace is relentless, and allegations of bias are political weapons. |
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| The resulting proliferation undermines the very purpose of these mechanisms by weakening and fragmenting the efforts to introduce coherence. |
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| After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point. |
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| But the SA-11 is a member of a class of weapon that carries a fragmenting warhead with a proximity fuze. |
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| This wide dispersal had the effect of confusing the Germans and fragmenting their response. |
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| This is the Energy of universal sympathy that holds Creation united as a Whole, it is the agglutinant principle that prevents the Cosmos from fragmenting into an alienating Chaos. |
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| A coloured porous material comprising in its pores an effectively colouring amount of an organic pigment which is obtainable by fragmenting a meltable or solvent-soluble pigment precursor. |
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| But in a rapidly fragmenting currency area, it is well-nigh impossible. |
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| To avoid the danger of fragmenting analysis into the study of multiple individual situations, the framework seeks to distill the key traits that define the condition of youth in Canada today. |
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| This is an improvement compared to the situation in which we found ourselves last year at this time, when many movements were fragmenting, unconvinced that a political solution was the best way forward. |
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| Developed by IBM, DITA is widely regarded as an ideal architecture for fragmenting XML content and enabling content re-use. |
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| The mass audience for television networks is fragmenting fast. |
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| To avoid fragmenting the single market, several co-ordination mechanisms are foreseen, both between the regulators and with the Commission, as well as public consultation mechanisms on certain measures. |
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| Similarly, I think there's a danger here of fragmenting criminal trials. |
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| The private appropriation of land not only led to the formation and consolidation of large holdings, but also had the diametrically opposite effect of fragmenting small holdings. |
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| Encroaching ever more deeply into, and fragmenting, the large cats' habitat, human activities have triggered a vicious circle which is probably the main culprit for their steady decline. |
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| It is a response to fragmentation, as media seek to maintain economic units of scale in the face of fragmenting resources, by attempting to reaggregate fragments. |
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| These included the Hatfield accident, caused by a rail fragmenting due to the development of microscopic cracks. |
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| The report said rapidly increasingly human populations were fragmenting habitats for orang-utans, gibbons and leaf monkeys. |
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| The country is fragmenting along economic, ethnic, and cultural lines. |
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| Climate change devastated these tropical rainforests, abruptly fragmenting the habitat into isolated 'islands' and causing the extinction of many plant and animal species. |
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| If the fragmenting comet collided with particles in Jupiter's dusty rings, the single-body model might work, but it isn't clear that this scenario ever happened, Benz adds. |
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| Such tmesis can have various effects, but fragmenting and interpolating the fragmented has the specific effect of producing simultaneity, a kind of atemporal temporality. |
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