Its movements were played piecemeal, though; this dismantling of symphonic unity was a throwback to the potpourri programming of the early and mid-nineteenth century, when solitary movements of symphonies and concertos appeared amid solo performances, arias, and, sometimes, popular numbers.
Mr. Domenici indicated he was not interested in trying to pass the measure piecemeal, though he has said he is willing to eliminate the protection for producers of MTBE.
On the other hand, different communities may have different conventions that express respect or reverence, and moreover any given community may revise its conventions in piecemeal though not wholesale fashion (the truth behind the instrumentalist interpretation).
Page Fortna, a Columbia University professor and leading scholar on peace negotiations, says that "piecemeal" deals, though modest and rarely successful, can eventually align the incentives of groups whose demands at the moment are unreconcilable.
It's piecemeal stuff, though it's more ambitious than Obama's pledge to work within the confines of existing law.
Happily, though, this piecemeal existence did not last for long.
The modernization of Russian institutions, though piecemeal, was extensive.
"Piecemeal litigation, even though we win, doesn't seem to have any affect," said Roderic Boggs, executive director for the Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, which helped prepare the study.
Business groups were disappointed by the government's Plan for Growth, produced alongside the budget, which they saw as piecemeal and incoherent – though they did welcome Osborne's corporation tax cut, and some measures, such as enterprise zones, aimed at fostering rapid growth in specific parts of the country.
It is that the evidence, though piecemeal and incremental, was so clear that the ECB does not know how to get it into the public domain without causing deep and unnecessary damage.
After months of intense debate over the Obama administration's efforts to revamp our immigration system, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made a decisive, though piecemeal, move on immigration reform by adding the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as an amendment to the defense authorization bill.
