She patiently teased out grand interpretations from fragmentary evidence -- the use of everyday domestic objects in torture rituals, the cruel euphemisms ("the birthday party," "the dance") by which the perpetrators referred to them.
Preparing this model for empirical testing can be challenging, as constructing well-informed estimates of model parameters requires creative use of fragmentary historical data.
As seen here, it is a bit too robustly reconstructed, its age and fragmentary character mollified with the use of modern materials and mirrors mounted like rays above its well.
Moreover due to the fragmentary nature of ESTs, their use in gene functional analysis is limited [ 29- 31].
Any region that was found using DOGMA to contain fragmentary sequences of genes was aligned (using ClustalW) to functional versions of genes from various previously sequenced plants.
However, these studies usually involved fragmentary tissues of unknown taxonomic origin and consequently assignments could not be independently confirmed (i.e. using morphology).
A mere handful of specimens, some fragmentary, of inlaid white porcelain have survived.
England has only fragmentary remains of 12th-century glass.
The report highlighted the fragmentary nature of postgraduate life.
Only fragmentary accounts of Drake's voyage remain.
