Sentence examples for on the fragmentary from inspiring English sources

Because the channels were open, you could listen in on the fragmentary conversations, even from far away, and get a sense of the stress and isolation of people in Texas, and of what worried them.

Not only did we not have people on the ground in 1998 -- after 1998, when the inspectors left; but we relied, when they had left, too much on the fragmentary reporting from years before, from the early 90's, from the post-Iran-Iraq war situation, and were never able to pin anything down.

Caragiale also began work on the fragmentary writing Soborul țațelor ("The Council of Busibodies", 1929) and the detective story Sub pecetea tainei ("Under the Seal of Secrecy", 1930), but they would remain unfinished.

The same is apparently true for the single sea urchin gene (although this is provisionally based on the fragmentary evidence of a single small BAC clone [ 10]), suggesting that a single exon downstream of the Runt domain may be the primitive condition for bilaterians.

Unfortunately there is no evidence from the east on the popularity of Greek beliefs among the local population, and scholars can only speculate on the basis of the fragmentary notices in authors such as Strabo.

When he studies the Ordovician and the Silurian, he's trying to reconstruct the distant past on the basis of the fragmentary clues that remain — fossils, isotopes of carbon, layers of sedimentary rock.

No longer seeking, as he did in A Mind at Peace, an immutable cultural identity in Istanbul's past, he places himself on the side of the fragmentary and the gratuitous against the imperatives of history and progress.

In view of the fragmentary data on the effects of ovariectomy on AT mass and distribution in rats, our goal here was to provide an improved platform for the use of ovariectomy as a rodent model of menopause in obesity research.

It's filled with bottles of pills and gin, wadded Kleenex, and a crumpled map on which the fragmentary words S ANGEL are legible.

The urban park took on a fragmentary and piecemeal character with respect to the placing of the new constructions, and several of its parts risked being inaccessible as they were enclosed within new, high walls.

In 578, hostilities were renewed, but the sources on the period, fragmentary as they are, do not mention any Ghassanid participation for the first two years.