Given how fragmented the market is, MSN's eight million subscribers could quickly allow Microsoft to grab second place, Mr. Bernoff said.
Given the fragmented nature of the media audience, cable networks benefit economically by offering news that attracts a partisan niche.
But, even so, both parties could end up short of a majority, given how fragmented the British vote is becoming.
Given this fragmented picture many Somalis are more interested in preserving their old lifeline of remittances than in new deals agreed at foreign talking shops.
The Muslim population's resistance has been strong, but scattershot, given its fragmented nature, including Turks, the largest group, Moroccans and others.
HOLIDAY albums marinate in consensus: given our fragmented age, songs of the season are probably the closest thing we have to popular standards.
Given the fragmented structure of the 27-nation Union, economists and analysts say there are few real policy options for easing the situation any time soon.
The ECB currently seems reluctant to take interest rates down from 0.75%to0.50%0%, partly due to some doubts that such a move would have a beneficial impact given current fragmented conditions in credit markets.
She wonders, given how fragmented music distribution is now, and the proliferation of so much, so fast by the internet, whether something as culture-shifting as Nirvana could have the same profound and prolonged impact today.
This insistence might change in the cold light of an autumnal day, but given the fragmented attempt at a coup in the past few weeks it seems unlikely that dissenters will get their act together to leave in one leap to form a new and substantial parliamentary opposition party.
