How To Use Piecemeal In A Sentence

Some see that as a kind of visionary genius that goes beyond limited piecemeal approaches.
Solutions attempted in piecemeal fashion, as we've seen thus far, would amount to constantly putting out recurring fires. State Bailouts? They've Already Begun
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
I'm also concerned that the change is being made piecemeal, without regard to the proposed redevelopment of the waterfront and City Hall car park.
As they also lacked a written language, our understanding of their construction techniques remains piecemeal. The Times Literary Supplement

Radio nan Gaidheal will broadcast a single morning block to the Highlands and Islands, replacing the current piecemeal pattern of programmes.
Its account of events was piecemeal and its analysis was biased.
A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
The Court might seek to change parts of it piecemeal and over a period of time as this would appear to be less provocative towards an elected body.
Other signature promises may be addressed in piecemeal fashion in the opening weeks of the Obama administration but then put on a long track toward more comprehensive resolutions. The Sunday Word: Closing Guantanamo Will Have To Wait - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
From these and other scraps came the long-accepted story of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of Britain: of raids by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from north Germany and Denmark, followed by piecemeal settlement and conquest.
Reforming our cars, greening our energy, planting some trees, redesigning our cities, these are virtuous but piecemeal efforts.
What this article has tried to illuminate is a dual condition in which psychology — in a piecemeal way in the course of the early part of the nineteenth century — is emerging as an empirical science for the study of the individual mind, but is also at this point becoming a new forum for a humanist metaphysics of the individual. Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
Another framework could involve a piecemeal approach in which working groups try to reach agreements on individual issues. Times, Sunday Times
This counter-initiative should also aim to influence electoral politics because Democrats, who are dependent on corporate coffers, have only been able to win piecemeal social justice victories. Noura Erakat: The Tea Party and Race in America
While that suggests a rather piecemeal and hasty approach to any serious design project, the mayor speaks more inspirationally of "an enduring, world-class street. Surface Improvements
The script is written in a piecemeal fashion depending on the availability of artistes, both male and female.
I'm more inclined to suppose that the misadventures arise piecemeal, needing to be tackled on a case-by-case basis.
The present approach is too piecemeal, too arbitrary. Times, Sunday Times
I chose to read this edited collection piecemeal as I attempted to cling on board the whirligig of a new teaching year.
Alterations have been carried out on a piecemeal basis.
But for now that history emerged only piecemeal. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
In comparison, all other tax deduction measures are too piecemeal, and too minimal, in effect.
In normal circumstances, piecemeal reforms without a grand signature project might still add up to a laudable conservative record. Times, Sunday Times
The discussion so far does not imply that piecemeal improvements of conservation programmes have not occurred.
Because of the high cost and complexity of the project, it's been built piecemeal.
Both management and the workers must know that most of the public has hardly noticed the piecemeal action going on recently. The Sun
New legislation may allow inner London boroughs to take over education, perhaps on a piecemeal basis.
On the south side, almost at the edge of the cliff, stood a stone circle until it was tipped piecemeal over the brink by sportive youths.
It is a typical example of the absurdly piecemeal nature of road planning in Britain since the dawn of the mass motoring area.
Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
Instead, the piecemeal measures will add further complexity and uncertainty to an already fragmented system. Times, Sunday Times
He said a traffic survey of the whole estate was needed rather than taking a piecemeal approach.
St Ewold's isn't the best house in the world," said the major, "because it is old, and what I call piecemeal; but it is very pretty, and certainly nice. The Last Chronicle of Barset
The claimants have failed to satisfy me that piecemeal repair of the units, and replacement of units by re-conditioned units where necessary, would be an uneconomic or unsatisfactory method of repair of the system.
We can win it only if we do not force our forces to fight in a legal fog, constantly speculating and litigating piecemeal about what the law might be.
Despite this the approach seems to be piecemeal and applied only to initiatives at the margins of health policy.
When the crime came at last, it was as blundering as it was bloody; at once premeditated and accidental; the isolated execution of an interregal conspiracy, existing for half a generation, yet exploding without concert; a wholesale massacre, but a piecemeal plot. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
Long treated as a back, it was full of coal stores and junk, and cluttered with a sprawl of buildings added piecemeal over the years.
A series of piecemeal settlements, rather than one overarching deal, is more likely given the variety and number of parties. Times, Sunday Times
Mountain artillery consisted of light guns and howitzers capable of being dismantled and carried piecemeal on mules, or even by men, into positions inaccessible to ordinary artillery.
The government plans to sell the railways piecemeal to the private sector.
A new six-year, $2.8 billion contract to televise Nascar's races nationwide took effect in 2001, replacing its formerly piecemeal approach to selling broadcast rights. Nascar Revs Up Rough Side to Win Back Fans
Over the years I've collected these anthologies in a rather piecemeal fashion.
This is often a legacy of historic inception, piecemeal development, and political expediency.
GH: In your new book Makeshift Metropolis, you state that architects should resist the urge to plan grand utopias and should instead embrace smaller interventions that fit more naturally into what you call piecemeal urbanism. Guy Horton: Witold Rybczynski's Compelling Makeshift World
The experience of mother-of-three Jane Foot is symptomatic of the piecemeal approach to sex education in this country.
An offshoot of this characteristic is doing things piecemeal, so that completion is not a one-shot execution but an iterative process.
He believed the entire matter should be put back for one month to prevent the matter being done piecemeal.
By contrast, the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods.
But they'll have to do it in due course, do it in a timely way and do it in a way I told you earlier that doesn't open us to the charge that we get yelled at all the time for dribbing and drabbing information out -- and we're not going to do something piecemeal. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
Their businesses are at risk of being ripped apart and swallowed piecemeal by more ambitious banks. Times, Sunday Times
They should not be allowed to do piecemeal work but lay a fresh road.
They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion, recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so.
the research structure has developed piecemeal
So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required.
English law has developed piecemeal solutions in response to demonstrated problems of unfairness.
The islands were discovered piecemeal by explorers going to Africa or up to Arabia. Times, Sunday Times
Recently we have seen some good developments but we have also seen some botched piecemeal developments.
In the context of home improvement, phasing occurs when you take a piecemeal approach to renovation. Buzzword: Phasing
Recent efforts to cover courses against frost have been admirable but piecemeal. Times, Sunday Times
They agreed that it demanded a concerted response, not piecemeal action.
There were piecemeal reforms, and also private acts, to take care of particular situations—the legislature could give “feme sole” status to a married woman whose husband had abandoned her, making it possible for her to sell or mortgage her land.20 A History of American Law
He meant that the meal should be composed of small, piecemeal, disposable items, which one could consume and move on, in favour of those large repasts which arrested the passage of time and movement.
Welcome though such measures are, they remain piecemeal and are unlikely to feed into growth until 2014-15. Times, Sunday Times
The inquiry should ask why a piecemeal approach was allowed, and why different sets of stalls are used in tests and on courses.
What but butchery by piecemeal can, under such circumstances, be expected from a man brutal enough at first to 'maim' and 'disable' him, and now exasperated by being obliged to pay his full value to the master, and to have, in addition, the daily care and expense of his maintenance. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings.
Elsewhere slum clearance activity was much more piecemeal and avoided spectacular set pieces.
Unfortunately, everything is being done piecemeal.
He had to dismantle it and sell it piecemeal. Times, Sunday Times
The union is against plans to introduce the change to a six-term school year being introduced across the country in a piecemeal way.
This piecemeal approach is characterized by a number of themes. Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process
The holists reject the piecemeal approach as being too modest.
The government plans to sell the railways piecemeal to the private sector.
The islands were discovered piecemeal by explorers going to Africa or up to Arabia. Times, Sunday Times
However, like all living language, this one is open to some resistance, albeit a somewhat piecemeal one.
Recent efforts to cover courses against frost have been admirable but piecemeal. Times, Sunday Times
A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
Part of the acquisition of cotton processing enterprise piecemeal acquisitions, seed cotton purchase prices after a marked decline in the near future, larger with cotton farmers fall.
The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal.
More than six writers took turns hacking at the story-line, which resulted in a rather piecemeal plot.
As a consequence the Claimants' answers have been provided in a piecemeal fashion.
A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
But what is inevitably a piecemeal approach cannot address the issue of the past in all its complexity. Times, Sunday Times
Local white residents say their anger is not directed at the squatters, but at the government for what they call disorganised and piecemeal plans that fail to address the central problem of urban homelessness. ANC Daily News Briefing
They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives.
Community care legislation has grown piecemeal though numerous statutes over the last half century.
Out went the old law and any piecemeal codification of it. Times, Sunday Times
The piecemeal approach means that there is some repetition and that the conclusions are necessarily modest.
This is positive news for the Gotham-based floorless exchange Nasdaq, which is acquiring the LSE piecemeal after a proposed bid for Clara Furse's market was turned down. U.K. Watchdog Makes Key Ruling For Greifeld's Nasdaq
His political beliefs are covered in a piecemeal, scattershot fashion that will be frustrating to fans and foes alike.
Some anomalies which had been arising as a result of the previous piecemeal evolution of means-tested benefit were eliminated.
A series of piecemeal settlements, rather than one overarching deal, is more likely given the variety and number of parties. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, I find that many companies that have adopted piecemeal changes are already tiring of the subject.
In the meantime, however, Dole has begun a piecemeal process of tax cutting around the edges.
In his description of the manner in which these forms cohere and successively unfold, he introduces one of the basic concepts of higher space thought; namely, that in the "descent of forms" from space to space, that which in the higher exists all together -- that is, _simultaneously_ -- can only manifest itself in the lower piecemeal -- that is, _successively_. Four-Dimensional Vistas
The Arab dispersion came about piecemeal, through the ebb and flow of war.
Thus, the art of fresco is necessarily piecemeal.
The “pass it piecemeal” dodge is an inability to face consequences. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Call Your Senators
The intelligent design argument counters evolution by claiming some processes are irreducible and couldn't have come about piecemeal.
For many years, a lot of hard-working people have tried to tackle those problems in a piecemeal fashion.
If you can send your, what they call workout package, if you can send that in one bundle so that they have everything that they need at one time, you're going to be more successful then you can send in your materials piecemeal over a period of time. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2009
Some of this will be achieved through piecemeal acquisitions (it bought a small credit-card business last week), but much will be through organic growth.
For convenience, I shall label these methods " piecemeal technology ".
Rots like a doddard oak, and piecemeal falls to ground | The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion .
Troops were then committed piecemeal to the Gallipoli peninsula, had suffered heavy losses in landing, and could then only cling on to narrow beachheads overlooked by strong Turkish defences.
Instead, the piecemeal measures will add further complexity and uncertainty to an already fragmented system. Times, Sunday Times
So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required.
[Page 148] in matrimonial cases belongs to the Ecclesiastical Courts; under which last canon will come Lords Cranworth and Campbell, and all the Peers and Commons voting with them for reform in the piecemeal law of England; – of that country which publishes a Liturgy for its Established Church, containing a Roman Catholic ceremony for marriage; overrules the vows of that ceremony by Acts of Parliament; evades them by the Marriage Registration Act; solemnly quotes them, as an argument for keeping women to the indissoluble bond; and sets them at defiance (as a form involving no legal obligation), when the indissoluble bond is to be broken for men! A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill
The practices associated with the other protectors are different in that they are used by monasteries, lama's estates, families, or individuals for this-worldly purposes as piecemeal elements of a traditional network of religious practices, not to affirm a systematically sectarian outlook. The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II)
This exercise has necessarily involved a piecemeal analysis of the factual and expert evidence.
But in government the coalition's approach has been piecemeal. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise, change through the present client system would only lead to piecemeal change.
From this point, it depends on the particular publisher and editor combination as to whether the anthology is sent piecemeal (here are the stories, put it together) or as manuscript ready for copyedit. MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 2)
It is "a system of haphazard enforcement and piecemeal policies" that are "usurped" in some areas of the country and fully "ignored" in others. The Media Consortium: Weekly Immigration Wire: Piecemeal Reform is Dangerous
The wakeful partner looks as if she was constructed piecemeal, again with a bust pendant from her broad shoulders.
These bite-sized essays, each a mere fifteen or twenty pages long, often impress one as serious philosophical achievements even when they are read piecemeal, as they were written.
He said that the changes to the ministry were being done on a strategic basis and were not piecemeal or temporary.
Their businesses are at risk of being ripped apart and swallowed piecemeal by more ambitious banks. Times, Sunday Times
One major problem of this piecemeal approach is that the source of distortions is obscured.
Both management and the workers must know that most of the public has hardly noticed the piecemeal action going on recently. The Sun
The ownership of land has been the nub of popular discontent in Britain since the Normans, when much of England and Wales - and large slices of Scotland and Ireland - was handed out piecemeal to henchmen.
The inferior turbinate was incised, and a bulging tumor in the right maxillary sinus was taken out piecemeal through the maxillary sinus ostium.
Their businesses are at risk of being ripped apart and swallowed piecemeal by more ambitious banks. Times, Sunday Times
Reeking of cash-in, this bitty, piecemeal approach only served to fill in details of Croft's relationships with other characters, and was nothing more than a snack for fans of the series.
Entrepreneurship, meanwhile, is considered only as an afterthought and in piecemeal fashion.
A piecemeal approach will not suffice. MANAGING FOR RESULTS
Under such blows the enemy has to divide its forces thus allowing the troops on the offensive to destroy the enemy group piecemeal.
Milosevic has granted piecemeal concessions while sowing the kind of confusion that he has used in the past to stymie opponents.
However, we like to draw your readers' attention to continuing concerns at the suburban character and quality of life in the area becoming spoilt by an overload of piecemeal developer-led building.
At the beginning of the period, enclosure was often a piecemeal process, undertaken by agreement within the village or by fencing some land from common grazing on adjoining waste.

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