The American-led coalition is large, which gives it staying power, but it makes the partnership unwieldy and progress piecemeal.
Online accounting is a step toward that goal, but progress is piecemeal.
While expressing optimism that their people could forgive each other over time, the religious leaders warned progress was piecemeal and threatened by growing criminality – as well as the continued presence of armed groups.
The ultimate success of biology-inspired approaches seems more certain, since they can progress by piecemeal reverse-engineering of the one physical system already known to be capable of general intelligence: the brain.
But experts say that progress has been piecemeal, and that promises to improve the system repeatedly fall short.
McPhearson said he was not discouraged by the slow and piecemeal progress, legislatively or otherwise, that's been made in the years since Martin's death.
It is piecemeal progress, but the threat of a big fine seems to focus minds more clearly than any amount of talk about lofty legislation.
Piecemeal progress has been made in areas such as Torbay, in Devon, where unnecessary emergency admissions have been reduced through rapid assessments and provision of equipment and support.
With planes from China and Japan also expected to join the hunt, the sudden concentration of resources on the basis of such inconclusive evidence reflects growing desperation after 14 days of piecemeal progress.
The world has a clear choice, he said: "Either we inch along making piecemeal progress, or we now turn the full weight of our knowledge, resources and commitment against this epidemic".
