Example sentences for: piecemeal

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

  • But I think that McCain's less ambitious, piecemeal approach makes much more sense than Bradley's comprehensive one.

  • The NYT says this represents another incremental step toward providing health insurance to all Americans, part of the piecemeal strategy Clinton adopted after the failure of his comprehensive health care reform.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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