The corporate entities for which these people work also tend to break up into smaller pieces or get merged into larger ones.

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Mr. COLE: Of course another option ultimately for the owners of Chrysler is to break it up into pieces.

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Traveling through the sky at a few kilometers per second, friction with the air can cause the meteor to break up into several pieces.

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But they're looking at maybe even doing another space walk and maybe they should cut it into shreds so that as they came down and passed through, you know, Mach 12 it would break up into small pieces and wouldn't really pose as much of a threat.

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Instruments are passed through the scope to break up the stone into small pieces that can be urinated out.

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The idea was that new chief executive Ian Read would break the company up into five pieces so that the drug division would be able to grow from a smaller base.

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They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.

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These investors need to be wary of not only trading commissions and exchange fees, which go up as you break a large order into smaller pieces, but also market impact and opportunity costs.

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American officials are reluctant to go nuclear and break them up, not least because the task of splitting them into pieces small enough to pose no danger would be horribly messy.

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