There is no question of historic archive material being splintered and dispersed, nor the staff who will conserve it.
Other services which should be brought together were, however, splintered between districts and counties.
It can be taken even further because the paramilitary groups have also splintered.
A state with a vast nuclear arsenal has splintered into a number of separate states.
As for the dying swan songs of the splintered centre, we had better pass them by in silence.
The problem is that neighbourhood watch schemes will not work well in a high-crime area because the community is already splintered.
Bengal became 'unfortunate' after social upheaval in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries splintered its unity.
Koshar made his task more difficult by continuing to generalise about the lower middle classes, even though he recognised this was a splintered constituency.
