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It's very disappointing to see them moving forward with this, it seems that Montana is taking a piecemeal approach to how they view grizzly bear recovery. – Andrea Zaccardi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Well, it's partly what you just mentioned, it's partly that we don't have majority rule in the Senate … [so the Democrats] have to cram everything into this one major piece of legislation … They have to do climate, they have to do paid leave, they have to do child care, they have to do green energy tax credits for cars and things like that. They have to put everything into this legislation because they can't do piecemeal regular-order bills because the Senate doesn't function like that way anymore. – Catherine Rampell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The county by county piecemeal approach clearly has not worked. – Kyle Simon	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There’s a danger ... the Biden administration will fall back into the old habit of a piecemeal, quid pro quo approach in which the United States takes only limited steps and demands Cuban concessions on its internal politics, that’s a formula for paralysis. – William LeoGrande	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I( had) taken a piecemeal approach( to masks) because I believe firmly that this was the best way to get the most number of people to participate, i believe that there is enough motivation( now) to safely get our kids in school that we can really juice the participation of mask wearing throughout our state for the next two weeks. – Tate Reeves	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Many of these recommendations are really piecemeal, superficial and general, they cannot just rely on the IPCC report alone to pretend that all these issues have been dealt with and settled. – Kenneth Leung	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We'll get criticized for that. But you could also get criticized of putting it out piecemeal. There's no easy right answer, all at once, then everybody's got the same gripe. – Mike Conaway	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 6 years ago
For all practical purposes the accession dynamic is dead ... In a way it has become inconsequential as far as Erdogan is concerned, it will be a piecemeal effort to concoct areas of common interest and build structures of cooperation as the need arises ... That has been the case for refugees, that will be the case for economic integration, possibly for cooperation on counter-terrorism, and areas like that. – Sinan Ulgen	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not, the Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded. – General Boykin	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The problem is that the reforms are being implemented in a piecemeal and contradictory fashion, they decentralized distribution, but not production. Food production through to consumption is a chain that is only as strong as its weakest link. – Fidel Castro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus, in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm extremely hopeful that this judicial review will open the door to change, it is extremely difficult to achieve justice from the government's current piecemeal approach to human trafficking. – Archana Kotecha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Those little piecemeal elements of the process - the ones that potentially stand in the way of a farmer being able to buy something, outfit it and have it integrated as soon as possible, those are the ones we really want to make sure are flushed out. – Paul Delaney	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Those little piecemeal elements of the process – the ones that potentially stand in the way of a farmer being able to buy something, outfit it and have it integrated as soon as possible, those are the ones we really want to make sure are flushed out. – Paul Delaney	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My personal assessment is that we are likely to see more of what we've seen - piecemeal reforms moving more or less in the right direction, but at a fairly slow clip and no bold breakthroughs because of this election. – Columbia University professor Gerry Curtis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It's very disappointing to see them moving forward with this, it seems that Montana is taking a piecemeal approach to how they view grizzly bear recovery.

– Andrea Zaccardi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Well, it's partly what you just mentioned, it's partly that we don't have majority rule in the Senate … [so the Democrats] have to cram everything into this one major piece of legislation … They have to do climate, they have to do paid leave, they have to do child care, they have to do green energy tax credits for cars and things like that. They have to put everything into this legislation because they can't do piecemeal regular-order bills because the Senate doesn't function like that way anymore.

– Catherine Rampell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The county by county piecemeal approach clearly has not worked.

– Kyle Simon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There’s a danger ... the Biden administration will fall back into the old habit of a piecemeal, quid pro quo approach in which the United States takes only limited steps and demands Cuban concessions on its internal politics, that’s a formula for paralysis.

– William LeoGrande

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I( had) taken a piecemeal approach( to masks) because I believe firmly that this was the best way to get the most number of people to participate, i believe that there is enough motivation( now) to safely get our kids in school that we can really juice the participation of mask wearing throughout our state for the next two weeks.

– Tate Reeves

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Many of these recommendations are really piecemeal, superficial and general, they cannot just rely on the IPCC report alone to pretend that all these issues have been dealt with and settled.

– Kenneth Leung

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We'll get criticized for that. But you could also get criticized of putting it out piecemeal. There's no easy right answer, all at once, then everybody's got the same gripe.

– Mike Conaway

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

For all practical purposes the accession dynamic is dead ... In a way it has become inconsequential as far as Erdogan is concerned, it will be a piecemeal effort to concoct areas of common interest and build structures of cooperation as the need arises ... That has been the case for refugees, that will be the case for economic integration, possibly for cooperation on counter-terrorism, and areas like that.

– Sinan Ulgen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not, the Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.

– General Boykin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The problem is that the reforms are being implemented in a piecemeal and contradictory fashion, they decentralized distribution, but not production. Food production through to consumption is a chain that is only as strong as its weakest link.

– Fidel Castro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus, in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm extremely hopeful that this judicial review will open the door to change, it is extremely difficult to achieve justice from the government's current piecemeal approach to human trafficking.

– Archana Kotecha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those little piecemeal elements of the process - the ones that potentially stand in the way of a farmer being able to buy something, outfit it and have it integrated as soon as possible, those are the ones we really want to make sure are flushed out.

– Paul Delaney

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Those little piecemeal elements of the process – the ones that potentially stand in the way of a farmer being able to buy something, outfit it and have it integrated as soon as possible, those are the ones we really want to make sure are flushed out.

– Paul Delaney

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My personal assessment is that we are likely to see more of what we've seen - piecemeal reforms moving more or less in the right direction, but at a fairly slow clip and no bold breakthroughs because of this election.

– Columbia University professor Gerry Curtis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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