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Example sentences for: piecemeal
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Russia wrested the country piecemeal from Iran throughout the 1800s and combined Georgia with the semi-autonomous regions of Abkhazia (in Georgia's northwest corner), Ajara (in its southwest corner), and South Ossetia (in its north-central region).
What's more, piecemeal regulation is bound to fail.
Among the piecemeal efforts the Times lauds are insuring overnight hospital stays for new mothers, school uniforms, cell phones for citizen neighborhood patrols, keeping liquor ads off the airwaves, restricting tobacco sales, creating a national registry for sex offenders, and suspending the driver's licenses of deadbeat dads.
Jobs' hubris was not that he wanted to own the personal computer business, but that he wanted to sell a product that was better than anything the industry could put together piecemeal.
Little effort was made to consider an integrated policy toward terrorism, which might range from identifying the threat to addressing vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure; and the piecemeal approach in the Congress contributed to the problems of the executive branch in formulating such a policy.