Example sentences for: piecemeal

How can you use “piecemeal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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).

  • The inevitable legal challenges have arrived, but they're all piecemeal, failing to address sweeping constitutional questions.

  • As a result, over time, and with much gnashing of teeth the "elephant did begin to dance" and LSC, its grantees and the federally-funded legal services delivery system began to evolve from a piecemeal, Great Society experiment to carefully chosen nonprofit corporations working together to serve poor clients in every jurisdiction.

  • The NYT health care lead states that the same business and insurance lobbyists who teamed up to help kill health care reform in 1994 are mobilizing to block the more modest, piecemeal federal quality-of-care proposals--like mandated-length hospital stays for certain procedures and government standards for health plans--that the Clinton administration has subsequently endorsed.

  • 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.


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