And I thought that I could kind of do this piecemeal as I was traveling.

As a result, assistance is often piecemeal, slow and ill suited to the ultimate goal.

9. Notes with concern the piecemeal approach to the budget process, and requests the Secretary General, for all future proposed programme budgets, to take the necessary steps to avoid such a piecemeal approach to the budget process and ensure the fullest possible picture of the Organization's requirements for future bienniums

Or thou cause the heaven to fall upon us piecemeal, as thou hast pretended, or bring Allah and the angels as a warrant

Or thou cause the heaven to fall upon us piecemeal, as thou hast pretended, or bring Allah and the angels as a warrant

The Advisory Committee has consistently cautioned against a piecemeal approach such as that taken in the report of the Secretary General on revised estimates.

They have frequently been the responsibility of several government departments at central and local levels, and their planning has often been piecemeal and uncoordinated.

2. Regrets the piecemeal manner in which the investigations related issues contained in these reports have been presented to the General Assembly for its consideration

In his report the Secretary General addresses interconnected challenges and threats and suggests that a piecemeal, fragmented approach will not bring about the required solutions.

The EU cannot simply wait out the current migration crisis by implementing piecemeal and panicked measures in the hope that the problem will eventually resolve itself.

For too long, the international community's efforts at peacebuilding, in Africa as elsewhere, have been marked by piecemeal and uncoordinated interventions that often lack national ownership.

They also warned against high expectation of short term gains and a piecemeal approach, highlighting the need for a coordinated strategy to deal with the multiple problems.

Duplication of studies and a piecemeal approach will not lead to strengthening the oversight mechanisms, rather they will overload the Organization with more layers of bureaucratic structures.

And this is because one of the things we've learned over the last decade of studying market development in Africa is that the piecemeal approach does not work.

We have sent the Quran in discrete parts so that you may recite it for the people a little at a time, and We have sent it down piecemeal.

We have sent the Quran in discrete parts so that you may recite it for the people a little at a time, and We have sent it down piecemeal.

Such multidimensional poverty cannot be overcome through a piecemeal approach rather, it requires comprehensive public policies, which most States and multinational agencies unfortunately have not yet developed for indigenous peoples.

In reality, the problem is that funding has often been provided piecemeal by individual donors for single short term programmes that carry heavy transaction costs and often require the creation of parallel infrastructures.

Either the General Assembly will have to adopt a multilateral negotiated document or leave the Security Council to continue to deal with it in a partial, piecemeal manner governed by the political imperatives of the moment.

But many of China s antifragile measures have been piecemeal and incomplete. The need to overhaul SOEs, for example, remains on the agenda, owing to the power of vested interests that oppose further privatization and market based reforms.

It has further contributed to a piecemeal approach when dealing with terrorism and has led to a review of the current status of the existing anti terrorism conventions in the literature, suggesting possible measures to strengthen it.

This Gordian knot needs to be cut, not untied. The concept of interim agreements has now become utterly obsolete, if only because the parties are incapable of paying the political price inherent in an open ended, piecemeal process.

NEW DELHI Leading members of the governments of India and South Korea recently met to begin a new strategic partnership. They are not alone in doing so, for across Asia, a new security architecture is being constructed, seemingly piecemeal.

As such, the Committee was of the opinion that a number of the proposals made by the Secretary General are, in fact, piecemeal at this stage and would need to be revisited in the light of the panel's review.

Other investments often take precedence, and donors have historically funded emergency relief much more readily than pre disaster preparedness. The measures that are implemented tend to be stand alone and piecemeal, rather than part of a larger, systematic risk reduction plan.

It has evolved piecemeal, with little coordination among its various parts. If we are to avoid paying a high economic, strategic, and environmental price for its shortcomings, a better system of developing and enforcing internationally agreed energy rules is essential.

It was suggested that all provisions related to electronic reverse auctions could be dealt with in a separate part, either within chapter V or as a chapter V bis, rather than piecemeal in revisions to relevant articles of the Model Law.

The final message is that neither piecemeal change nor sloganeering will do the job. Nuclear disarmament, non proliferation, counter terrorism, and civil nuclear energy risk reduction are inextricably connected, and they call for sustained commitment around a comprehensive agenda, and detailed argument.

There is more at stake here than coming up with the right set of incentives and threats to change the Iranians minds. Rather, the time has come to approach the nuclear question in its full regional context rather than piecemeal and operationally.

The disbelievers say, Why has not the entire Qur'an been sent down to this man all at nce? Well, this has been done to impress it deeply on your mind, and (for the same object) We have sent it down piecemeal by degrees.

The disbelievers say, Why has not the entire Qur'an been sent down to this man all at nce? Well, this has been done to impress it deeply on your mind, and (for the same object) We have sent it down piecemeal by degrees.

Rather than continuing to pursue piecemeal measures like those that it has just approved, the government needs to implement an integrated and targeted strategy for the reactivation of investment, employment, and trade. Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.

No way! Way.

In this context, Zhu s reform strategy was aimed primarily at reestablishing a sound fiscal relationship between the central and local governments, rather than at increasing the GDP growth rate. In fact, though Zhu s reforms were piecemeal, they could easily have led to double digit GDP growth.

The third component, or arrow, of Abenomics structural reforms aims to restore growth by raising productivity. But increasing efficiency in a wide variety of sectors, as Japan must do, can be a long, difficult, and piecemeal process, as it involves the upgrading of virtually every technology and process.

But taxi drivers and pharmacists have successfully resisted efforts to open their professions and make provision of their services more flexible and efficient. The need to placate such interest groups is a serious obstacle to jump starting economic growth, because comprehensive reform is more effective than piecemeal reform.

Peacekeeping missions are able to place orders directly against these systems contracts and thus reduce lead times for products regularly required, avail themselves of volume discounts and other favourable terms and conditions that would not be available to them through piecemeal or spot procurement and significantly reduce administrative duplication.

No way! Yes, yes way.

Out of my way. Out of my way. Out of my way.

But we're telling it our own way, our own Nigerian way, African way.

For Japan, the TPP is vital to achieve economic liberalization the third arrow of Abenomics, the government s program to revitalize the country s ailing economy. The legislation to enact the TPP will simply push aside the lobbies and vested interests that have been so effective in slowing down or diverting piecemeal reforms.

And everybody asks me, Which is the better way, this way or that way?

Leading the way what's leading the way?

And I thought, No way, no way.

Unfortunately, the narrative of American decline has gained so much traction in recent years that even US officials seem to have started to believe it, pursuing weak and piecemeal policies (or, in some cases, doing nothing at all). President Barack Obama s restrained foreign policy approach appears to be fueling, not reducing, global instability.