It's much more likely that, as in cancer treatment, we need to proceed piecemeal, with different solutions for different problems.
Although an English parliament is out of the question, the government could proceed piecemeal, allowing competent, successful cities like London and Manchester to take greater control over money and policy.
We could proceed, piecemeal, in response to various problem cases, to successively introduce further stochastic properties, each of which is a necessary condition for randomness, eventually hoping to give a characterisation of the random sequences by aggregating enough of them together.
He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once.
Rodgers was criticised a year ago for spending the Luis Suárez proceeds piecemeal, on a number of players, few of whom proved instant hits.
Environmental officials say they have learned through trial and error that it can be far more effective to take an entire river system into account, rather than proceeding piecemeal.
From a contemporary chronicler, Hernán Pérez del Pulgar, historians know how they proceeded piecemeal but systematically against the magnates, sometimes using a nobleman's defiance of the law, sometimes a breach of the peace or of a pledge, to take over or destroy his castles and thus his independent military power.
The condo-and-office project, close to mogul Bruce Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards development, will cost $175 million to build, though it's proceeding piecemeal in a dicey market.
That, combined with a "severe lack of federal funding as well as authorities to quickly and comprehensively address chemical toxicity and exposure," said Kaye, has forced agencies, including the CPSC, to "proceed in piecemeal fashion".
High-throughput, shotgun sequencing of whole genomes allows the rapid identification of thousands of genic sequences, greatly facilitating molecular and population-genetic studies that would otherwise proceed in piecemeal and laborious fashion.
Ethnic cleansing in Kirkuk proceeded in piecemeal fashion, but the Baathists were following a master plan.
