Changes were often made piecemeal, sometimes a few words at a time, by "fragmentary orders".
All three approaches seem to require that space and time be fragmentary at the Planck scale.
(The Hittite records at this time are fragmentary, but Egyptian scribes mention for the first time the Dardanians, familiar from Homer's Iliad, and the Philistines).
These distinctions were not meant to correspond to changes in the Academy as an institution, and evidence about institutional developments at this time is fragmentary and unclear.
Homo may have originated as early as about 2.8 mya, though the record during this time is tantalizingly fragmentary.
Through two different time schemes, in fragmentary scenes shuffled together like a pack of playing cards, Catton juxtaposes the aftershocks of an affair between a high-school student and her music teacher with the local drama school's appropriation of the scandal for a theatre project.
We illustrate that magnitude estimates derived from tree-ring data and semi-empirical equations represent a valuable contribution to the documentation and understanding of hydrogeomorphic processes and that they can complement fragmentary time series in small watersheds for periods covering decades up to centuries.
Mr. Dietz parcels out the details of how Red lost his hand, where Lois was headed on that plane and more, but in a fragmentary, time-jumping fashion.
Between Elvis and the Beatles The hit records of Anthony Newley, strewn around that corner where the 1950s turned into the 1960s were a curious mix from fragmentary times, post-Elvis, pre-Beatles.
And the Turkish artist Emre Huner, who splits his time between Amsterdam and Istanbul, manipulates fragmentary maquettes of the home and garden in an evocative video that seems to slip back and forth, like Shangri La itself, between a romanticized past and a pragmatic present.
