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.
Rodgers was criticised a year ago for spending the Luis Suárez proceeds piecemeal, on a number of players, few of whom proved instant hits.
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.
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.
In all, nearly a decade was lost, and in 1981, with work proceeding only piecemeal and the ever-growing demand for water forcing the old tunnels to carry sixty per cent more capacity than intended, city officials were so desperate that they pleaded with the federal government to fund the project.
Ethnic cleansing in Kirkuk proceeded in piecemeal fashion, but the Baathists were following a master plan.
On the other side, there is the hallowed vituperative tradition of Freud bashing, which proceeded in piecemeal fashion with Karl Popper and Hans Eysenck in the 50's and 60's and went on to claim ever more cultural ground.
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".
