His last public intervention was nine years ago – a leaked audio speech – though he is supposed to have been behind a series of rulebooks aimed at instilling a modicum of discipline to an increasingly fragmented force.
The so-called princelings — like Mr. Bo, offspring of China's first revolutionary leaders — remain a powerful, though fragmented, force in China's internal politics.
Though most analysts believe Isis will remain a powerful – even if fragmented – force in the region for years to come, al-Qaida may be the biggest winner.
Task Force Kean pressed on the Chindong-ni area, resulting in a confused battle where the fragmented force had to rely on air strikes and airdrops to keep it effective.
Maybe if we banged together the heads of all these activists and reconfigured the fragmented forces of identity politics into a new, empowered movement, we could start winning again.
The police and army, now 350,000strong, are almost unrecognisable from the small, fragmented forces of several years ago.
Critics of a commissioner-led system argue that trying to force a fragmented industry to come under one umbrella is impossible, even under the threat of law.
The three larger states are among the few where something like a two-party system prevails: voters face an almost straightforward choice between the BJP and Congress, which, though fallen on hard times, remains the biggest force in a fragmented opposition.
The government can only do so much to reduce the powerful gravitational forces acting on a fragmented national industry.
The story is a fragmented whirl of dalliances and betrayals, brutal displays of force and chaotically scattered ambitions.
Many American Indians say that a recent history of genocide, resettlement and forced assimilation has left them with a fragmented sense of themselves as a people.
