It served as a co-conspirator in the splintering-without-accountability of more than 2,000 migrant families this spring, many of whom, in the case of asylum seekers who presented themselves at U.S. ports of entry, did not even commit the misdemeanor of illegally crossing the border.
Cruz and his allies blamed Senate Republicans, saying they had splintered without ever testing Obama's resolve.
The practitioners of Long-Long-Short, which might be called splintering without jumping, are a New Jersey foursome that finished in the top four places in the 1990 New Jersey Player-of-the-Year Race: Frank Silver of Short Hills, the inventor of the method, Jay Korobow of Princeton, Alex Allen of New Brunswick, and Beverly Bluth of East Windsor.
"Julia could clip newborn fingernails with her teeth, and breast-feed while making a lasagne, and remove splinters without tweezers or pain, and have the kids begging for the lice comb, and compel sleep with a third-eye massage – but she had forgotten how to touch her husband.
The out-party is often splintered without a White House to impose order - "look at Howard Dean's challenge in 2004" - which will happen to Democrats if they lose in 2016.
All that is left is a couple of splinter groups without a real brain or an organization". Federal and state officials say the last known boss of the Southern California Mafia was Peter J. Milano, 64.
Ollie is meant to be the naturally talented one out of him and sister Penny, but you wouldn't trust him to take a splinter from your finger without accidentally grafting your spleen to the back of your neck.
Splintered, dispirited, without generally recognized leaders, the movement dissipated its energies in pointless violence, attacks on the "superstars," squabbles between liberated women and chauvinist males, aggressive "gays" and resistant "straights". When I occasionally ran into one or another of the defendants during that year, they often seemed despondent or at loose ends.
But two conferences with such shared histories cannot splinter and blend without scar tissue.
