The reversal of the Taliban's longstanding public refusal to negotiate with the United States — and the administration's willingness to reciprocate — punctuated a highly compartmentalized effort that has proceeded in fits and starts, with the knowledge of very few officials, according to administration and Afghan officials involved in the negotiations.
"I know how to live, at least politically, a compartmentalized life," he said.
Extreme groups tend to develop a compartmentalized structure and have militants skilled in underground organizing.
These assumptions led neuroscientists to search in vain for a compartmentalized brain.
I believe that my father's doctors did their best within a compartmentalized and time-pressured medical system.
In the nucleus of animal and plant cells individual chromosomes maintain a compartmentalized structure.
In Mr. Renner's convincing, glassy-eyed portrayal, Dahmer is such a compartmentalized personality that his violence isn't visible until the moment it erupts.
One of his paintings here is "Locomotive With Constructive House" (1934), a compartmentalized canvas composed largely of rectangles and circles incorporating suggestions of house parts and train wheels.
The workstation is housed within a spiral-shaped enclosure that resembles a compartmentalized nautilus shell, a design that implies the time dimension.
A compartmentalized model for batch flocculation in turbine stirred tanks is presented.
So here is an instruction manual for repair, along with the necessary tapes, thread, erasers, clamps, glues, cotton gloves and china bristle brush, all in a compartmentalized box.
