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The planet's gravity pulled the ship further down into the atmosphere, and it was up to Anakin to pilot the splintering craft to safety.

But if Google becomes the owner of your private groups, it's going to be a splintering of our social lives.

The ship hits the treetops with a series of splintering crashes, and sails out over a clearing, crossed up and spinning.

On closer inspection French Catholicism is not dead, but it is splintering to the point where the centre barely holds.

Instead of splintering apart and warring among themselves, Inca villages united into a small state capable of mounting an organized defense.

Describing the splintering of internet technology, some writers see the problem in terms of new devices using different standards.

Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution.

The other guilds have run roughshod over them, splintering the Gruul into a loose confederation of war clans.

They use networks of outsourced suppliers and assemblers, which has led to the splintering of research divisions.

As divergent forces tug at the internet, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate digital domains .

THE DRAGON CRASHES through splintering trees, IMPACTING in a lake with a WHITE BLAST of water.

A sudden renting sound outside made her jump: a splintering of wood followed by a crashing to the ground.

In their final pass Montgomery's lance tilted up, and burst through the king's visor splintering to pieces.

The splintering of Lula's political base ought to be good news for Mr Serra.

The splintering of solidarity within the eurozone has seen a reawakening of zero-sum game nationalism.

The glass buckled, some of the pieces shattering and splintering on the floor beside me.

The New Republic retreated from Coruscant, leaving the splintering Imperial factions to war amongst themselves.

Rumors were rife on Monday that the regime was splintering in numerous ways, perhaps fatally.

Putin is obsessed with unity and avoiding the dangers of splintering and fracturing in politics.

Yet, it's not a software project which has suffered splintering or factionism(factionalism).

The truth is that the risks of the euro splintering really have mounted.

The splintering of dialects goes on without interruption.

She revitalized a party lacking ideas and in decline, its support splintering into smaller parties based on caste and regional interests.

This is obviously unsatisfactory and it still does not solve the problem of the splintering of applicable national laws.

To prevent splintering, some owners wrap the sticks with cellophane tape.

I started to chop furiously, the dry wood riving and splintering under the axe.

The sound of the wood splintering was so loud.

The splintering of the opposition is partly due to the failure to implement the deal signed in Abuja in May last year.