Well, if you don't contact the virus at all, after a few hours things start to go wrong and eventually the whole system disintegrates.

And in the case of health care, there's also the fact that the traditional system of employer-based coverage is gradually disintegrating.

"The system has been disintegrating while we remained unconscious," he said in an interview.

The system of lifetime employment has disintegrated in the face of economic pressures from globalization.

The air-conditioning systems in two laboratory buildings are about 10 years past their expected maximum lifetime and are disintegrating.

But the system of fixed exchange rates established after the war and based on the dollar had already disintegrated by that time.

As a result of the Vijayanagara empire's collapse, the political system of the southern areas disintegrated.

Furthermore, this system can disintegrate familial life and structure.

Her thesis is that the patriarchal system is disintegrating.

But as the system disintegrated his decrees were increasingly ignored.