The intimacy of the mobile phone creates a similarly fragmented network of communication and desire. |
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The ummah became more fragmented than ever and became even more receptive to Western cultural penetration. |
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The jug in Plate XI is blown cristallo glass infused with fragmented bits of gold leaf and submerged random streaks of amethyst glass. |
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There is a central reporting mechanism for the operations but the functions are run in a fragmented manner across the different markets. |
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Those of a postmodern persuasion might argue that it's okay to present a fragmented field in a fragmented way. |
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I used the form of multiple cantos because I wanted a fragmented structure that suggests the difficulties in capturing the complexity of Angola. |
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This is a clear example of failure of a fragmented and uncoordinated health system. |
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The managed care movement is one of the country's efforts to organize the fragmented, uncoordinated, and costly health care delivery system. |
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Other issues included a lack of tendering and contract law and fragmented control of projects. |
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The rental sector remains highly fragmented, made up mainly of individual landlords who each own a small number of buy-to-let homes. |
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Because of the many small, semi-open bogs and areas of saplings, the forests are highly fragmented. |
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The paintings are voyeuristic vignettes cobbled together from a fragmented narrative with no beginning and no end. |
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The fact that air traffic control is fragmented is resulting in flight delays all over Europe. |
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His own compositions are mostly fragmented, mournful affairs, stuffed with bursts of folkish melodies and oblique twists. |
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Our counter-intelligence, which plays a considerable role here, is very fragmented. |
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Thus, spatial heterogeneity in predation pressure is common in both fragmented and contiguous landscapes. |
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Emotionally I feel like I am still in a snow storm with very little vision other than fragmented bits flurrying around my head. |
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We have become a globally integrated but politically fragmented world community. |
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It also criticised it for not reacting to signals from the market place and for having a structure that's too unwieldy and fragmented. |
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And third, differentiation may have evolved in allopatry as a contiguous ancestral population became fragmented by vicariance. |
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His prose, rich in dialect and at times fragmented into poetic line breaks, is well worth the time required to fully comprehend its rhythms. |
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The Black-capped Chickadee, a resident cavity-nesting songbird, is known to breed in fragmented and otherwise disturbed habitats. |
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The German mortgage market is quite fragmented and interest rates vary according to the type of mortgage lender. |
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During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders. |
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We can only conjure up the ghosts of the past through our fragmented memories. |
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The China retail market for both groceries and dry goods is now fragmented. |
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Some spots required engineered fill to depths of up to 3 m, but for the most part the site was composed of silty clay and fragmented rock. |
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The thriller plot is fragmented, subsumed in absurdist detail and consistently mapped onto the struggle between body and landscape. |
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A canine tooth had fragmented long ago and jagged spikes of it were embedded in the animal's infected gums. |
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India, the most populated country in South Asia, is ethnically fragmented along cultural, religious, and linguistic lines. |
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For those of you who haven't read the Act itself, the document is a fragmented mess of addenda, revisions, and additions to the U.S. Civil Code. |
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They look just like the rafts of fragmented sea ice that lie off the coast of Antarctica on Earth. |
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After a week dominated by railway matters, it seems worth reminding ourselves just how fragmented the system is. |
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As a sectional interest Austrian industry was fragmented and disunited with little influence over the conduct of economic policy. |
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The leaves, having fragmented under foot are now going into a damp, clingy phase. |
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Arbitrary concatenation facilitates optimization of this fragmented bandwidth. |
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The brains of infants and very young children are capable of storing fragmented memories, however. |
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The different sounds usually don't mesh together, and the end result is often a fragmented, disjointed mess. |
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Global warming too easily serves as a metaphor for our common humanity and the indivisibility of the species in a fragmented world. |
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Now, less than one percent remains as fragmented remnants scattered across 75,000 hectares. |
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The Web has proven that customers have zero tolerance for fragmented lines of business. |
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It frequently has to make its assessment on the basis of fragmented, incomplete and confused information. |
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The cytoplasm contained numerous mitochondria, fragmented rough endoplasmic reticula, small lipid droplets, and free ribosomes. |
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The UK government's obsession with tackling antisocial behaviour is making society even more lonely and fragmented. |
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The Government rightly says that cancer is a national priority, yet the system that's expected to deliver it is too fragmented. |
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Unbrecciated diogenite that shows orthopyroxenes and chromite grains that are partially fragmented and deformed. |
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She therefore underwent dilation and curettage to remove fragmented placental tissue. |
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The interrupted and fragmented health policy development in turn generates professional confusion. |
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Tribal societies, unlike detribalized, fragmented cultures with their stress on individualist values, are extremely austere morally. |
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The result is not a complete picture but a fragmented collage made up of one man's gleanings. |
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Thus, our results confirm theories predicting that isolated, rare, or predaceous species will be lost first from fragmented landscapes. |
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Steel shares gained sharply on the bourses, partly on hopes that Arcelor's move would spur consolidation in the fragmented Indian industry. |
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Sleep is fragmented by frequent arousals and awakenings, resulting in decreased or absent slow-wave and REM sleep. |
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As political authority in the West fragmented, the Gothic kings continued and extended this system, and their lordlings under them did likewise. |
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The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands. |
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The result was less an attempt at analysis, than several dozen fragmented experiences and opinions. |
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These include a fragmented image of the crucifixion with parts of Christ's body in pieces around the cross. |
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At the beginning the protagonist is on his death bed, trying desperately to find some coherence to his fragmented life. |
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With this scenario, the fragmented delegate count produces several possible permutations. |
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However, permafrost covered large northern areas and many habitats were fragmented and displaced southward. |
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As for why the other drive is becoming fragmented, something must be causing the fragmentation. |
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In mountainous stages the peloton is likely to become fragmented, but in flat stages a split is rare. |
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The beginning of the film shows a selection of different modes of transport, all in close-up and fragmented. |
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Of course, these commonalities were fragmented with cleavages along the now-familiar lines of class, gender, and nationality. |
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Indeed, even later English kings found their authority fragmented and attenuated by divided loyalties among the baronage. |
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But from reading the documentation of this history, the impression is not one of fragmented partisanship or sectionalism. |
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In addition the bill will systemise and rationalise the current fragmented regulations that are similar in nature. |
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Tarot cards, fortune tellers, seers and old and very powerful creatures have a limited ability to view fragmented pieces of the future. |
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In 1991 Poland's first fully democratic elections saw twenty-four parties gain seats in the Sejm and further fragmented the Solidarity camp. |
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From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented. |
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The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing. |
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The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds. |
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It exists today in myriad, fragmented Sumerian, Hittite, Babylonian, and other versions that scholars have had to piece together. |
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The fragmentation among progressive groups has, in turn, fragmented our message. |
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On the other hand, water is a polar substance which is made up of one positive and one negative charge, and therefore is a fragmented substance. |
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All glimmering with light, some read as striated landscapes, others as fragmented torsos. |
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Woman, symbolized by the torso, is always represented fragmented, cinched or bound. |
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The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states. |
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The result was a fragmented national identity symbolized and implemented by the white minority government's policy of racial separation. |
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However, the highly fragmented nature of the industry will cap the prices that operators can charge. |
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In short, allocation of elements within the mobility triad is fragmented and stovepiped and needs a quick fix to achieve efficiency. |
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Orsini was born in Meldola, in 1819, in a fragmented Italy misgoverned by Austria and various local tyrants. |
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Are the biogeographic and ecological responses of tropical-rain forest species representative of those of other fragmented biomes? |
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Congruence is interpreted to mean that a widespread ancestral biota was fragmented by a series of successive vicariant events. |
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It smacks more of a fragmented nation struggling to reconcile the conflicting agendas of disparate racial groups. |
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What we need is to adopt whole river catchment plans from mountaintop to estuary, instead of the fragmented approach we have at present. |
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The gang then fragmented, troublesome families moved away and the area has now returned to normality. |
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Thus, they are mechanically much weaker than other bivalve shells and are easily fragmented after break-down of the organic matter. |
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When necessary, fragmented samples were picked with tweezers from a sieve under a binocular light microscope. |
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Through Europe, there can be a kind of internationalism in name and law, but one that conceals a more fragmented continent, obsessed with regional concerns. |
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That has its breakthroughs, and its brilliance, but something is lost when humor becomes as fragmented as politics. |
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These repeated checks added up to considerable amounts of time and fragmented work, particularly as nurses had to log on to the computer each time. |
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For another, frequent guest contributions by Sinead O'Conner and Peter Gabriel made the albums seem less like complete wholes and more like fragmented compilations. |
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Full-scale civil wars are giving way to fragmented armed groups with decentralized power bases in remote border regions. |
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Medieval Europe was politically fragmented and religiously divided. |
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In nineteen fragmented chapters riddled with ellipses, the novel limns the discrete and sometimes discomforting spectrum of desire awakened by intimations of mortality. |
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This is a fragmented group in terms of media because some are still watching kids' stuff, while others are tuning into wrestling, MTV or some of the broadcasters' lineups. |
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Fields curve around jumbled outcroppings, huge chunks of fragmented rock appearing in time to halt a tractor before it barely reaches working speed. |
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He reveals the arbitrariness of race in his fragmented self. |
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The actual event underpinning his fragmented memory of being held by his arms and legs and having his pants cut still eludes him. |
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Fittingly, the stage is framed with light structures that remind one of what a fragmented Stargate might look like. |
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There is plenty of room for growth in Italy, a very fragmented market. |
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The mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past. |
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The play is fragmented, and constantly shifts in temporality. |
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The cropping, the strenuous poses and the three-quarter positioning are especially reminiscent of the fragmented figures of struggling warriors on the Parthenon metopes. |
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He launched his load straight at the pavement where it fragmented into a thousand shining white droplets flying in a thousand different directions. |
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I remember visits to the resettlement sites, where land was uncultivable, water salty, fodder for domestic animals unavailable and communities fragmented. |
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Raised in fragmented family units, more of us live by ourselves. |
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The first slug fragmented and several pieces came out his upper back. |
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While a fragmented helmet had been unusually wrought from one piece of iron, the shield boss and sword pommel can only be paralleled by Swedish finds. |
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Many people have only a fragmented understanding of native title, gleaned from front-page news reports of the latest native title claim or political outburst. |
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It came about from an awareness that grew from observing people in Mauritius who had the symptoms of fragmented thinking and were being untrue to their inner feelings. |
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A chorale tune in Dorian mode is fragmented and turned in on itself. |
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It is highly fragmented ethnically, regionally, and by the distribution of wealth. |
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His choral works, canons, and cantatas, some based on poems by Hildegard Jone, contain joyous words that initially clash with the fragmented tone cells, then merge with them. |
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Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass. |
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Set in a future-world London, a.d.3700, the novel is a fragmented fictive archive of orations, dialogues, dream-visions, and the working papers of its protagonist. |
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The only break in the smoothness of the wing's design was the fragmented stump at the back, which may have been a tailfin before the plane crashed. |
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It exists today in myriad, fragmented Sumerian, Hittite, Babylonian, and other versions that scholars have had to piece together in order to assemble coherent accounts. |
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In Africa and Asia, elephant attacks appear to be becoming more common as human development pushes the pachyderms into ever smaller and more fragmented living spaces. |
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Vancouver is fragmented and a bit cliquey, but I'm part of a clique. |
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Both government and businesses seek to privatize former government-owned enterprises, which is made difficult by fragmented and illiquid markets for public stock ownership. |
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In the United States, the professional constituency for primary care is fragmented into family medicine, general internal medicine, and general paediatrics. |
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It has reached the point now where he is regarded faute de mieux in some quarters as an acceptable guarantor of stability in an inherently unstable and fragmented country. |
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Losing oneself in the movie is not figured as pleasurable, but sets up, rather, a mode of helplessness in the face of an opaque and fragmented story line. |
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On the contrary, Sylvia Chen rejects her own perceptions as fragmented and objectified and instead discovers the integrality of the landscape to her self. |
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This stands in stark contrast to those who complain about the fragmented nature of American society, or the seemingly intractably opposed interests of some of its citizens. |
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Aesthetically, it recalls the jagged, fragmented abstract art of the Italian Futurists, Russia's Suprematists and Constructivists, and Vorticist Wyndham Lewis. |
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There is plenty of psephological evidence to suggest that the British electorate has become much more fragmented then it once was, particularly in the last thirty years. |
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Large areas of Africa were depopulated, economic development was severely depressed and the societies left behind were fragmented and destabilized. |
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Focal mucinous differentiation was identified in 5, and 4 had areas of microcystic elongated and fragmented pattern. |
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Regulation and control of racing in the United States is highly fragmented. |
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Spanish rule eventually contributed significantly to bringing political unity to the fragmented states of the archipelago. |
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Until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting sociopolitical alliances. |
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The Disruption of 1843 fragmented the kirk school system, with 408 teachers in schools joining the breakaway Free Church. |
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The conquest of Constantinople in 1204 fragmented what remained of the Empire into successor states, the ultimate victor being that of Nicaea. |
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The state soon fragmented as the relative importance of regional powers rose again. |
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The various locations seem fragmented and isolated, but that characteristic may be an accident of discovery. |
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Tropical rainforests fragmented and then were eventually devastated by climate change. |
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The 'calcine' generated is fed continuously into an induction heated furnace with fragmented glass. |
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Agricultural land frequently displays this type of extremely fragmented, or relictual, habitat. |
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At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms. |
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Such antispatial, incorporeal, and fragmented modes of communication make physical proximity less important. |
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Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age. |
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The style of singing, whilst harmonically strong, is conversational, fragmented and fragile, with overlapping and repeating vocal lines. |
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While still fragmented and exhibiting degrees of polycentrism, a global commercial legal order is coming into focus. |
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Phyllostomid bats of a fragmented landscape in the north-eastern Atlantic forest, Brazil. |
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Of special significance is the identification of over 1200 well-preserved and 227 fragmented grape pips, 1343 pedicels and 148 pressed skins. |
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But perhaps rather than as fragmented it is better to think of these poems simply as open, even if it is an openness created by elision. |
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A global governance system should be systematic and not fragmented and departmentalised like it is today. |
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We see entrance into this fragmented market as an excellent potential profit center for Oretech. |
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In an actual fragmented bed, the granules will not be equisized, but will have a distribution of sizes. |
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For him, hysteria hypostatized at an organic level the notion of a fragmented body. |
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The epidermis is fragmented, with the exoderm of flat cells composing from one to two layers without thickening. |
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Records of Kent following the death of Wihtred in 725 are fragmented and obscure. |
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Mem-O-Free defragments the main memory, organizing short and fragmented segments of memory into a few larger ones. |
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The Disk Defragmenter searches for fragmented files and assembles them into contiguous chunks. |
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Each of these tests was executed on the system when the personal folder was fragmented and defragmented. |
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A war with something so fragmented and uncontainable is unwinnable, unending and unaffordable. |
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A fragmented China provided easy opportunities for Japan to gain territories piece by piece without engaging in total war. |
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What started as an effort to build a counterculture soon fragmented into many niche subcultures that had nothing to do with flower power. |
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This fragmented approach had become inefficient and expensive as a more global method to minimizing corporate taxes became the norm. |
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As these ridge sections have been subducted, extensive strike-slip faults developed and fragmented the multiple components of the margin. |
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By bundling benefits, SSA sponsorship programs are a more convenient approach for vendors than the fragmented model of past years. |
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The polysemous, multivocal messaging made possible via social media demonstrates the fragmented hyperreality of postmodern political culture. |
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Those bands who continued to record often simplified their sound, and the genre fragmented from the late 1970s onwards. |
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Political news tends to be dramatized, fragmented, personalized and reduced to sound bites. |
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Bumble bee pollination of the sticky catchfly in a fragmented agricultural landscape. |
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An introspective introduction is followed by a searching moderato, a mosaic of fragmented ideas. |
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The ridges are made up of brownish sandy sediments, including whole and fragmented marine mollusk shells and rounded caliche pebbles. |
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The Crusader states were fragmented, and various powers were competing for influence. |
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We inspected the lower calyx with a nephroscope via the access sheath and fragmented the lower calyceal stones with a lithoclast. |
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Once widespread in Finland, the Saim ringed seal is now found only in the Saim fragmented freshwater lake complex. |
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India was essentially feudal, politically fragmented and not as economically advanced as Western Europe. |
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In terms of parliamentary democracy, Parliament was kept weak, the parties were fragmented, and there was a high level of mutual distrust. |
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As with the smoky-brown woodpecker, information on this woodcreeper from western Mexico is fragmented and scarce. |
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Chinese policies have been incremental and fragmented in terms of social insurance, privatization, and targeting. |
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In the case of Lyme disease, strongly buffering species like the opossum are lost when forests are fragmented, but white-footed mice thrive. |
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The vendor landscape is highly fragmented with over twenty equipment manufacturers actively selling WDM Metro equipment. |
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In July 2001, ethnic tensions led to rioting, and a report described Bradford as fragmented and a city of segregated ethnic communities. |
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The river channel links the remaining, but fragmented wetland areas and nature reserves, providing a refuge for native and migrant species. |
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The greenbelt is becoming more and more fragmented, and satellite cities are appearing at the fringe. |
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In the 1950s, fragmented sections of a north Indian version of Arthashastra were discovered in form of a Devanagari manuscript in Gujarat. |
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In summary, nation states somewhat fragmented the medieval lex mercatoria but it is far from destroyed. |
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Land estates were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out. |
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Northern China fragmented into a series of independent kingdoms, most of which were founded by Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di and Qiang rulers. |
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Other topics include Lycians in the Cares of Aeschylus, ghosts, filicide, ancient philosophers and the fragmented self, and Aristophanes on how to write tragedy. |
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By the end of the 12th century, the Kievan state became even further fragmented and had been divided into roughly twelve different principalities. |
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In southeast Asia, human populations were higher than in Africa and habitats for orang-utans, gibbons or leaf monkeys were getting ever more fragmented. |
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The historiography of the field has been more fragmented than unified, with historians of Spanish America and Brazil generally remaining in separate spheres. |
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Ions can be fragmented to generate structural information by application of a large potential difference between lens elements within the differential pressure region. |
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Two methods of dealing with highly fragmented cremains developed for the analysis of the Walker Noe crematory site are employed to document Morton. |
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Written sources are lacking, but archaeological finds draws a vague and fragmented picture of the religious practices and the nature of the religion of this period. |
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The western Frankish kingdom was more fragmented, and although kings remained nominally in charge, much of the political power devolved to the local lords. |
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The industry is fragmented, but large firms are found in each submarket. |
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Additional invertebrates include fragmented Chlamys, endocasts of Turritella, larger gastropods and wedge clams, and fragmented bryozoans and decapods. |
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To achieve the dramatic and often disarticulating effects of stuttering, fragmented, or otherwise warped text, Baldi worked from maquettes, which he lit and shot. |
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Climate change caused the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse which fragmented this habitat, diminishing the diversity of plant life in the late Carboniferous and Permian. |
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Since 1900, classical periods have been reckoned more by calendar century than by particular stylistic movements that have become fragmented and difficult to define. |
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Then in the Middle Cretaceous, Gondwana fragmented to open up the South Atlantic Ocean as South America started to move westward away from Africa. |
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First, in both accounts the concept of time as well as that of the law seem to be fragmented in a way that potentially strips them of their exegetic and operative value. |
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Band members all had different visions for Radiohead's future, and Yorke experienced writer's block, influencing him toward a more abstract, fragmented form of songwriting. |
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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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They were using a specially designed pistol made for starting backfires when a piece of the projectile fragmented and ricocheted unexpectedly over a 100-foot berm. |
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The lion is now unified as opposed to fragmented lions of the past. |
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Mercantilist domestic policy was more fragmented than its trade policy. |
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When fragmented moments and hyperreal images meld into one exhilarating experience, taking your breath away, don't you just love your gadgets and wish you had more of them? |
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The Disk Defragmenter utility is a degunker's friend, enabling your computer to consolidate fragmented files and gain more efficient access to your folder system. |
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Resistance against the German occupiers of Belgium can be seen at all levels and from all quarters of the political spectrum, but was highly fragmented. |
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As complex civilizations arose in the Eastern Hemisphere, the indigenous societies in the Americas remained relatively simple and fragmented into diverse regional cultures. |
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Almost all of Denmark's primeval temperate forests have been destroyed or fragmented, chiefly for agricultural purposes during the last millennia. |
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But even more than this, he notes how fragmented and fragile we are, which is symbolized and ritualized by the imposition of ashes on our foreheads. |
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