Sentence examples for a piecemeal fix from inspiring English sources

"This group has worked long enough that it will work toward producing a good compromise on a total fix to our immigration system — not a partial fix, not a piecemeal fix, but a total fix," Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California and a member of the House bipartisan group, said on Wednesday.

"There is no way to piecemeal, fix up, or reform any of these issues we all like to look at in isolation," she said.

Passing piecemeal fixes to outlaw each fraud-inviting instrument — like the provision slipped into the recent jobs bill that outlaws a derivative that had been designed by the industry to allow individuals to evade paying taxes on their stock dividends — will never be a substitute for restoring civil liability for abetting securities fraud.

Thus, if the federal government wants to prevent the RFS from forcing more independent refiners into bankruptcy, the piecemeal fixes proposed by Sen. Cruz and others will have to do.

Paraphrasing Clapper, Cruz declared Monday that the current situation is "a dream scenario for terrorists and enemies of this country". Cruz said Obama's unwillingness to pass piecemeal fixes to the intelligence community furloughs shows that Democrats are using the government shutdown as a partisan ploy.

"If House Republicans oppose comprehensive immigration reform but support a piecemeal approach to fix our broken immigration system, show us," Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich). said at a Judiciary Committee hearing.

Though Mr. DeMint says he supports legal immigration, he prefers a piecemeal approach to fixing the system and views any path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally as amnesty, forgiveness for breaking the law.

The Castro brothers tepidly tried to fix things in a piecemeal fashion.

These are typical of an attempt to fix a major cultural and behavioural challenge with a piecemeal sticky-plaster approach.

But Mr. Corry has opposed a piecemeal divestiture.

A piecemeal approach usually makes sense.