Unraveling

In fact, however, we are never told how the saboteur carried out his mission, and its unraveling is heavier on atmospherics than ratiocination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

More progress has been made in unraveling the war on drugs this past year than in living memory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are intricate and connecting and they go up and down in unraveling their stories. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When they met, Full already was a leader in unraveling the principles of animal locomotion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His crucial role in unraveling Watergate was unfairly diminished, Dardis says, and, just as vexing, he was portrayed as "a buffoon" by Bernstein, whose account said he wore a threadbare sports coat. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The one problem comes in unraveling a new, coiled leader without turning it into a rat's nest. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gregory made it clear that Gehman would have the full support of NASA's engineers and technical resources in unraveling the physical mysteries of the accident — what actually had happened to the Columbia out there in its sheath of fire at 200,000 feet. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Similarly, it seems superfluous even to mention the proven usefulness of mutant strains of micro-organisms in unraveling the detailed steps involved in the biosynthesis of vital cellular constituents. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Rochus Misch, 92 years old, recalls the unraveling of the Third Reich. via kottke ❋ Unknown (2009)

This unraveling has been a shocking display of bad political tactics, deception, cover-ups, backstabbing, etc. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Clusterfuck Nation: When historians glance back at 2007 through the haze of their coal-fired stoves, they will mark this year as the onset of the Long Emergency – or whatever they choose to call the unraveling of industrial economies and the complex systems that constituted them. ❋ Michael Caddell (2007)

I asked, excited by the idea of unraveling another of the unknowns. ❋ Meyer, Stephenie (2005)

For me, the recent Tel Aviv conference was one chapter in a larger story that will unfold in the coming years, namely the unraveling of leftist and left-liberal conventional wisdom that is fueling varieties of anti-Zionism in the Middle East, in Europe and in my own country, the United States. ❋ Unknown (2010)

good luck. it's all lawyers, this world. we're going to spend the next two terms unraveling the lawyer-speak of the last two terms. then we can move on to unraveling this pile of shite. ❋ Steve Hulett (2009)

Their argument is simple enough to explain: copyright is a "public policy success" that helped artists leverage market forces to create, but today, that's all "unraveling" because of the way the internet facilitates piracy through file-sharing and the like. ❋ Jason Linkins (2011)