Sentence examples for piecemeal attempt from inspiring English sources

Ironically enough, this spatial segregation is the direct consequence of the small, piecemeal attempt made in the 2000s to make London more egalitarian.

So when Chase announced late last month that it had agreed to buy the obscure Beacon Group for an estimated $450 million -- an investment banking boutique started by Geoffrey T. Boisi, a former star at Goldman Sachs -- it looked to some like yet another expensive acquisition in a piecemeal attempt at building an investment banking presence.

Press conferences and piecemeal attempts are mere Band-Aids for a major systemic problem.

Piecemeal attempts have been made to address the issue, but this is the first time a comprehensive strategy to combat climate change has been unveiled.

All piecemeal attempts to improve the system -- while keeping it market-based -- have run into the following dilemma: if access to services is expanded, costs rise; if costs are lowered, access is cut.

The NAO criticises the government for what it calls "poor progress" on its 2010 promise to overhaul child protection services in the wake of the Baby P controversy, and highlights its "piecemeal" attempts to improve failing services.

Elizabeth Warren has called for interest rate reductions; President Obama signed an executive order capping payments on federal student debt at 10% of a borrower's income; there have been some piecemeal attempts to curb the criminal behavior at for-profit schools by strengthening so-called "gainful employment" rules.

Ambassador Dumisana Kumalo of South Africa, who will introduce a resolution in the 189-member General Assembly, sain in an interview today that piecemeal attempts to control diamond exports, which finance rebel organizations like the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone and Unita in Angola, are not enough.

Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, said, "The issue of humanitarian access is critically important now and all we see is piecemeal attempts to get food to different areas, no overall system for getting food distributed around the country where it's desperately needed".

After a year of kowtowing to big polluters with piecemeal attempts to gut the Act, last month, House Republicans decided to go whole hog and try to pass a super polluter bill - the "Stop the War on Coal" - which more properly belongs on the pages of Mad magazine.

The successful bidder will advise the parliamentary authorities whether to carry on repairing the building piecemeal as now, attempt a full renovation while Parliament is still sitting in the Palace, or find another venue for Parliament to sit in while the empty Palace is renovated.