Fragmenting

A consequence of that will be, we’re going to lose some of those benefits that came from very large scale and efficient manufacturing, because as you start fragmenting your supply base, your costs are inevitably going to go up.

Smaller, rounded bottom culverts, as well as those which are damaged or installed improperly impede fish migration by fragmenting freshwater habitat.

It is, by some distance, the hardest, edgiest work of LL’s career, a snapshot of an America fragmenting into bigotry and violence, LL muttering, “they pushed me to my limit/ Racism’s a disease, it’s only right that I kill it”.

Instead, CARICOM countries should consider what they lose individually and collectively by fragmenting themselves, instead of acting in solidarity.

Syria and Iraq are fragmenting back into unruly tribal enclaves.

There are important reasons why all those people choose the same identity, but those commonalities don’t guarantee a unitary view on the issues fragmenting the nation.

With fragmenting consumer attention and reducing attention spans, there is a growing need to connect with consumers at every touch-point in an engaging manner, Sejal Shah, said.

Herders roamed in large, shifting clans on either side of the Tian Shan and Altai ranges, traveling on horseback and occasionally fragmenting or forming political alliances.

Meanwhile, the internet itself is fragmenting.

Regretfully, these “add on” enhancements have the opposite effect, further fragmenting the organisation’s risk view by creating data silos and pockets of analytic capabilities.

There is no evidence of any philosophical approach to the implications of European states fragmenting in the 21st century based on nationalisms.

This Australian singer-songwriter’s acute autopsy of a fragmenting relationship cuts from present to past and back again, with the future manifesting itself through fretful anticipation as Jacklin faces a clump of unanswerables: Is he OK?

This is because they think that by fragmenting Android, it could weaken its operating system and allow foreign players into the Android operating system.

Thus, fragmenting insecurity to ethnic and religious codes, undermine government efforts in addressing the situation.

These laws deepen the antagonism between Coloured and white workers, fragmenting and weakening unity of the workers’ movement.

Climate change devastated these tropical rainforests, abruptly fragmenting the habitat into isolated 'islands' and causing the extinction of many plant and animal species.

Fragmenting such monopolies is by definition inefficient.

However, Tamar's own prestige and the expansion of patronq'moba – a Georgian version of feudalism – kept the more powerful dynastic princes from fragmenting the kingdom.

In his village scenes, for example, Braque frequently reduced an architectural structure to a geometric form approximating a cube, yet rendered its shading so that it looked both flat and three-dimensional by fragmenting the image.

Instead, deep gorges create obstacles to establishing transport and communication networks and de-fragmenting the economy.