Sentence examples for based on piecemeal from inspiring English sources

The formation of the empire was thus an unorganized process based on piecemeal acquisition, sometimes with the British government being the least willing partner in the enterprise.

"This is much greater than the number we originally knew existed," based on the piecemeal information previously disclosed, said Representative Linda T. Sanchez, Democrat of California, who leads the House Judiciary subcommittee that has been examining the issue.

She says she still engaged with the media; she would rather explain to the press the "totality" of the police story rather than have commentary based on gossip and piecemeal information.

The world would benefit from a transparent, international investigation, rather than piecemeal reports based on incomplete evidence.

I agree with the Los Angeles Times editorial board, which recommended a no vote*, saying: "What's needed is a consistent, rational food policy, not a piecemeal approach based on individual groups' pet concerns".

Our view of the abnormalities required to generate and sustain leukemia is evolving from a piecemeal account based on individual lines of research into a comprehensive view of how all the important components (eg, transcriptional program, chromatin modifications, DNA sequence, alterations in noncoding genome) interact, in each patient and each leukemic cell.

The resolution warns against any trade-off between security and the future EU-UK economic relationship, opposes any sort of cherry picking or a piecemeal economic relationship based on sector-specific deals, and reiterates the indivisibility of the four freedoms of the single market - free movement of goods, capital, services, and people.

Other cities, such as Bogotá, Colombia's capital, have adopted similar rapid-transit systems based on bus lanes, but have done so piecemeal, allowing glitches to be fixed quickly.

Francesco Bianchi, the government commissioner sent in to rescue Florence's Maggio Musicale Opera house, agrees that the piecemeal nature of funding, based on a range of diminishing state, regional and municipal grants and limited corporate sponsorship, had made the situation very difficult for Italian opera houses.

"While these reviews are responding to the departure of Holden and Ford, we have a window of opportunity to devise a national strategic response that's based on building a future rather than a piecemeal, subsidy approach to patch the past," he said.

We argue that the social quality approach is a comprehensive measure of social quality (as opposed to either piecemeal approaches, or approaches based on individual quality of life measures) which may be used as such a tool for monitoring the impact of policy on health.