'dismemberment' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It means the act of dismembering, or separating a body or object into smaller parts. Example: The forensic evidence showed signs of dismemberment, indicating that the victim's body had been deliberately cut into pieces.
Roping in a fremdwort (foreign word) to name an activity can sometimes betray a sense of unease, and Demontage is probably a good example of that: taking pleasure in someone's (symbolic) dismemberment sounds a little less problematic in exotic syllables.
Meanwhile Mr Letwin successfully urged Lady Thatcher to "use Scotland as a trail-blazer", a discriminatory approach for which the Conservative party is still paying in Scotland and of which the ultimate price may yet be the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.
In his state of the nation address last Friday, Putin implicitly compared the west to Hitler, and said it was plotting Russia's dismemberment and collapse.
Another early hope for Mr Putin's presidency that market reforms and business-friendly policy would engender sustainable growth—has been battered by the dismemberment of Yukos, once Russia's leading oil company.
To avoid immediate hostilities, though, the Turks ostensibly bought the German ships (and the services of their crews), replacing two dreadnoughts that had been ordered from, but requisitioned by, Britain.Thus did Germany appear to gain a new ally, and Turkey a protector against dismemberment.
Yukos will then cease to be the energy giant it was before Mikhail Khodorkovsky, its founder, upset President Vladimir Putin, landing himself in jail and his firm with debts to the government in back taxes and penalties (now) of around $21 billion (some $4 billion having been paid).Will anything remain of Yukos after this dismemberment, and with it any residual value for minority investors?
The dismemberment of Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank, went relatively smoothly but as Simon Gleeson of Clifford Chance, a law firm, points out: "If you wanted to choose a group of countries to co-operate, the Benelux ones would be the ones you'd pick".
The dismemberment of the sprawling Reliance empire seems to prove the point.
The dismemberment of Reliance by sibling rivalry rather than by commercial pressures seems to belie this.
During the "orange revolution" of 2004, which swept Viktor Yushchenko to Ukraine's presidency, the threat of dismemberment was revived by supporters of Viktor Yanukovich, his Russian-backed rival.
It also offered a leg-up for the rural masses to climb the social ladder.But it was not until Ataturk rescued Turkey from dismemberment at the hands of the western Allies after the first world war that the army was put on a pedestal.
