What is "piecemeal"

Usage examples of "piecemeal".

He proposed that British troops should, as they arrived, be moved up piecemeal to the Macedonian frontier line, although it was unlikely that they could arrive in time.

To accept the plan of Papagos, to which he constantly returned, of attempting to dribble our forces piecemeal up to Macedonian frontier.

Delay will also enable full concentration to be made on the Greek front instead of piecemeal engagements of our forces.

Not less lengthy will be the piecemeal recovery, by armies based mainly on Australia and India, of the islands, airfields, and naval bases in the Southwest Pacific area now confided to General Wavell.

So far-reaching a change could not however be brought about piecemeal, but only by the general wish of all the Governments now serving His Majesty.

Southern Ehleenee, whom we conquered piecemeal, only one or two percent were accomplished mindspeakers, and even those with latent powers only brought the figure to something less than ten out of every hundred.

Pitiless and horrible as these expressions from the Koran are, they are merciful compared with the pictures in the later traditions, of women suspended by their hair, their brains boiling, suspended by their tongues, molten copper poured down their throats, bound hands and feet and devoured piecemeal by scorpions, hung up by their heels in flaming furnaces and their flesh cut off on all sides with scissors of fire.

After the body of Osiris had been strewn piecemeal, the fragments were fondly gathered by Isis, and he was restored to life.

While this adventure has hardly been a straight line, and advances have been piecemeal at times, and even held up or hindered for centuries on end, mainly by fundamentalist religions, this adventure must be counted a success overall.

Much of the interior structure was in, laboriously built piecemeal, by Christmas, but no one wanted to pour the exterior and plasticlike interior wall sets until they were certain that they had everything in there that would be needed.

This had occurred piecemeal, to no set plan, employing every imaginable technique and material.

The giant died slowly, piecemeal, indifferent rather than brave, emitting neither cries not blood.

She always doled out my clothes piecemeal, not wanting to pressure me.

She had had some money in the Funds besides, still more insignificant but this her Brother Stanley had borrowed and begged piecemeal, and the Consols were no more.

Mulvaney Roofing afloat, my parents had been selling the property piecemeal, only four acres remained.