The robot learns in a developmental fashion, in a piecemeal way, incrementally and cumulatively. |
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For many years, a lot of hard-working people have tried to tackle those problems in a piecemeal fashion. |
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He said that the changes to the ministry were being done on a strategic basis and were not piecemeal or temporary. |
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As a consequence the Claimants' answers have been provided in a piecemeal fashion. |
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Over the years I've collected these anthologies in a rather piecemeal fashion. |
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Reforming our cars, greening our energy, planting some trees, redesigning our cities, these are virtuous but piecemeal efforts. |
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Some see that as a kind of visionary genius that goes beyond limited piecemeal approaches. |
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He said a traffic survey of the whole estate was needed rather than taking a piecemeal approach. |
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Entrepreneurship, meanwhile, is considered only as an afterthought and in piecemeal fashion. |
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Community care legislation has grown piecemeal though numerous statutes over the last half century. |
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He believed the entire matter should be put back for one month to prevent the matter being done piecemeal. |
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Long treated as a back, it was full of coal stores and junk, and cluttered with a sprawl of buildings added piecemeal over the years. |
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On the south side, almost at the edge of the cliff, stood a stone circle until it was tipped piecemeal over the brink by sportive youths. |
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The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal. |
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The intelligent design argument counters evolution by claiming some processes are irreducible and couldn't have come about piecemeal. |
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It is a typical example of the absurdly piecemeal nature of road planning in Britain since the dawn of the mass motoring area. |
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He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty. |
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An offshoot of this characteristic is doing things piecemeal, so that completion is not a one-shot execution but an iterative process. |
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The script is written in a piecemeal fashion depending on the availability of artistes, both male and female. |
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So far the question of asylum seekers and, by extension, racism has been dealt with in a very piecemeal fashion by the Government. |
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The wakeful partner looks as if she was constructed piecemeal, again with a bust pendant from her broad shoulders. |
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So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required. |
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Otherwise, change through the present client system would only lead to piecemeal change. |
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I'm more inclined to suppose that the misadventures arise piecemeal, needing to be tackled on a case-by-case basis. |
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More than six writers took turns hacking at the story-line, which resulted in a rather piecemeal plot. |
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The piecemeal approach means that there is some repetition and that the conclusions are necessarily modest. |
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Under such blows the enemy has to divide its forces thus allowing the troops on the offensive to destroy the enemy group piecemeal. |
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However, like all living language, this one is open to some resistance, albeit a somewhat piecemeal one. |
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The inquiry should ask why a piecemeal approach was allowed, and why different sets of stalls are used in tests and on courses. |
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I chose to read this edited collection piecemeal as I attempted to cling on board the whirligig of a new teaching year. |
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Some of this will be achieved through piecemeal acquisitions, but much will be through organic growth. |
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At best it will lead to piecemeal, sticking plaster measures that will barely work to keep the gears rolling. |
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English law has developed piecemeal solutions in response to demonstrated problems of unfairness. |
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Despite this the approach seems to be piecemeal and applied only to initiatives at the margins of health policy. |
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In comparison, all other tax deduction measures are too piecemeal, and too minimal, in effect. |
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Perhaps a piecemeal approach prevents many interventions from reaching the required critical mass. |
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His political beliefs are covered in a piecemeal, scattershot fashion that will be frustrating to fans and foes alike. |
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Because of the high cost and complexity of the project, it's been built piecemeal. |
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This exercise has necessarily involved a piecemeal analysis of the factual and expert evidence. |
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One major problem of this piecemeal approach is that the source of distortions is obscured. |
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The inferior turbinate was incised, and a bulging tumor in the right maxillary sinus was taken out piecemeal through the maxillary sinus ostium. |
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Recently we have seen some good developments but we have also seen some botched piecemeal developments. |
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The union is against plans to introduce the change to a six-term school year being introduced across the country in a piecemeal way. |
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It is using a piecemeal approach when the time comes to make nice political announcements. |
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The Arab dispersion came about piecemeal, through the ebb and flow of war. |
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None too soon, in my opinion, but the Administration is understandably erring on the side of completeness and accuracy rather than releasing information piecemeal. |
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Research and experience has shown that piecemeal approaches to solving the health problems that interfere with learning are not always effective. |
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This is an issue that has been stalled for years on end and continues to be weakly addressed through piecemeal multilateral arms agreements. |
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Discovery orders are generally not appealable before a trial, to discourage piecemeal appeals. |
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So far both the provinces of Ontario and Quebec have already come out against the idea of piecemeal Senate reform and so did Yukon. |
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However, these measures have typically been piecemeal, underfunded or unaligned. |
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Rather than doing a piecemeal chop and change, we need to do a single bill. |
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Mr. Speaker, it will take more than piecemeal measures to fix an employment insurance system that is full of holes. |
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We can't come at it with piecemeal, ad hoc, quick-and-dirty types of amendments, which this committee is being asked to sanction. |
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We were also aware that we would without doubt have listeners, but they would listen off-line, with a time lag and piecemeal. |
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As there is such a grab bag we will take a piecemeal approach at the time of voting. |
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Projects were pigeonholed, leading to piecemeal project analysis that allowed no linkages among the various components. |
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Doling out instructions piecemeal day by day is wasteful of time and deadly to efficiency. |
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The environment minister has attempted to douse the fires by putting together more piecemeal legislation but, guess what? |
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Not piecemeal improvements, but root and branch reform is to be carried out, as you plausibly inform us Mr Prodi. |
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In my opinion, the employment insurance system has to be improved from top to bottom, not piecemeal as is the case at present. |
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I ask that we do not debate the details of each of these processes in a piecemeal manner. |
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Its account of events was piecemeal and its analysis was biased. |
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Now, tpm is reporting that Senate Republicans are hopping on the piecemeal train. |
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Instead developments will be entirely private, sold off piecemeal to the highest bidder. |
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The member will recall that my concern and the concern of the minister and the government is that this is piecemeal. |
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Furthermore, fragmentation can lead to piecemeal interventions for conservation when more extensive landscape approaches may be more effective. |
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Such data are collected, but in a rather piecemeal fashion and by different bodies which do not always use the same criteria. |
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However, activities in this area are carried out in a piecemeal fashion and, to a large degree, as separate initiatives. |
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But we do not feel that social exclusion can be eradicated in a piecemeal fashion. |
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We cannot simply assess the impact of each of them in piecemeal fashion and try to deal with them one by one. |
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Our designs being quite finely crafted, we could produce them in a conceptual and minimalist way or treat each piecemeal. |
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There also appears to be general agreement to tackle this question in a comprehensive manner and not to follow a piecemeal approach. |
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This integration should not be piecemeal and selective, but rapid and comprehensive. |
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However, their offshoring initiatives are piecemeal, ad hoc and disconnected. |
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The URANTIA Book is a unified whole and should not be delivered piecemeal to those who are ready only for certain portions. |
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Luskin makes the best argument he can, of course, but it is piecemeal and speculative. |
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I'm also concerned that the change is being made piecemeal, without regard to the proposed redevelopment of the waterfront and City Hall car park. |
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We can win it only if we do not force our forces to fight in a legal fog, constantly speculating and litigating piecemeal about what the law might be. |
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They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives. |
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The American edition retains the piecemeal lightness of the original experiment. |
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While a grand bargain is extremely unlikely, Wyden intends to keep pushing for piecemeal reform. |
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After all, if he is looking for a party of deference, compromise, and piecemeal reform he need look no further. |
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As a result, the entire season is piecemeal, with episodes devoted to each character. |
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And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings. |
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They should not be allowed to do piecemeal work but lay a fresh road. |
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They agreed that it demanded a concerted response, not piecemeal action. |
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The Court might seek to change parts of it piecemeal and over a period of time as this would appear to be less provocative towards an elected body. |
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Damaged during all eras, rebuilt in piecemeal, the city has no architectural unity. |
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William reorganised the land structure in a piecemeal fashion, following the reduction of resistance in various parts of England. |
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During the late 17th century, the piecemeal approach to road maintenance caused acute problems on the main routes into London. |
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At the same time, in Prussia the irresolute Frederick William IV had been gradually persuaded by the conservatives to embark on a course of piecemeal reaction. |
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This should be a central component in any poverty reduction strategies and provides sustainability to small outreach initiatives that would otherwise remain piecemeal. |
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Pay equity enforcement can happen on a more global basis, rather than on a piecemeal workplace-by-workplace basis, which depends on individuals being sufficiently brave and persistent to file a complaint. |
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On the occasion that a stone was impacted in the renal pelvis, it was broken using a lithoclast and then retrieved in a piecemeal manner. |
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The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century. |
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Often a state chooses piecemeal whether or not it wants to be considered the successor state. |
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The net effect was to fragment the vast ranges required by the large animals and extinguish them piecemeal in each fragment. |
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A debate must be initiated, I believe, as a matter of urgency, in order to have real discussion of the matter of energy, and to end the practice of tackling the subject piecemeal, which has been the case until now. |
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The remaining two brigades under a Baratieri were outflanked and destroyed piecemeal on the slopes of Mount Belah. |
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In order to make the digital state a reality, a comprehensive transformation rather than piecemeal improvement is necessary, in conjunction with the training of public employees. |
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We therefore cannot take a piecemeal approach to addressing these issues. |
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Resection was carried out in a piecemeal fashion, with osteotomes and curettage. |
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At this concertation, Relex suggested that it might be better to overhaul the whole of the Framework Rules rather than proceeding in piecemeal fashion, modifying some chapters but not others. |
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The concerns that are expressed in piecemeal fashion by the Canadian right, that all this is too complicated and we have to try to simplify matters for the public, are nonsense and bunkum. |
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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. |
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Although Chávez has increased the state's share in industries like oil, electricity, steel and cement production, these piecemeal nationalizations do not challenge capitalist private property. |
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Sales tend to be piecemeal and of smallstock, just to eke out the season with grain purchases every three weeks or so until cash from migrant workers is available or, if not, until the harvest period comes round again. |
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On the other hand, I am a little concerned that they are willing to implement some of them in such a piecemeal and rushed fashion and they seem to have so few ideas of their own in the legislative cooker. |
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It is time for Wales to end its spectator status and make sure that our demands are articulated clearly so that we get the powers we need instead of the piecemeal devolution we've been subjected to. |
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These are areas that currently receive piecemeal and inconsistent services, with poor results and where, without the right interventions, the cost to the public purse in future will be significant. |
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It is passing strange that we have seen a series of piecemeal bills not dealing comprehensively with either Senate reform, electoral reform or parliamentary reform, but trying to nick them off one at a time. |
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The council is now exploring more piecemeal ways of bringing in development. |
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That is passing strange, but it is another example of doing things piecemeal without proper consultation and without dealing with them comprehensively. |
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Reform has been piecemeal and half-hearted. |
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The way we provide care now is piecemeal and out of date. |
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Modern architecture in the west is so piecemeal in comparison – a mixture of individual buildings with no obvious relationship to each other, or uninspired housing districts for the poor. |
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Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop. |
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They are presented to us piecemeal with no real indication of any will on the part of the minister to draw up a game plan or to create a cohesive environmental policy. |
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It came piecemeal, and seemingly grudgingly, and was accompanied by doubts, steps backwards and significant concerns over the financial implications of the new relationship. |
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They have frequently been the responsibility of several government departments at central and local levels, and their planning has often been piecemeal and uncoordinated. |
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Education is replaced with fluid piecemeal knowledge, which helps make people flexible for the work process and make them available for the entertainment industry. |
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These initiatives may form the first stages in an overall government strategy or be piecemeal developments dictated by budgetary limitations, political interest and serendipity. |
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Caesar treated this as an aggressive move and, after an inconclusive engagement against the united tribes, he conquered the tribes piecemeal. |
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Tunisians have shown that they will not be satisfied with piecemeal, cosmetic reforms but rather expect bold and far-reaching changes to overhaul the institutions that have failed them. |
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Quebec adopted an integrated family policy several years ago, but most other governments in Canada have piecemeal policies that are often at odds with each other. |
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Often, regulations have been developed in a piecemeal and reactive fashion, addressing only specific problems, and sometimes resulting in pollution being transferred from one medium to another. |
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A Norman lord typically had properties located in a piecemeal fashion throughout England and Normandy, and not in a single geographic block. |
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What remained of the English and Welsh Royalist armies and garrisons surrendered piecemeal over the next few months. |
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Throughout the medieval and modern periods, piecemeal enclosure took place in which adjacent strips were fenced off from the common field. |
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Karl Marx, on the other hand, opposed piecemeal reforms advanced by middle class reformers out of a sense of duty. |
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Rather, the motivation behind the founding of colonies was piecemeal and variable. |
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Along Borrage Lane, an embankment was built behind 15 properties to create a continuous line of defence to strengthen and fill in gaps in the previous piecemeal defences. |
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However, an enormous stroke of bad luck meant that the building was covered in wooden scaffolding, undergoing piecemeal restoration by a relatively unknown Christopher Wren. |
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But the piecemeal publication, with laudable speed, of the tablets, in volumes of two series and in numerous articles, created problems for the toponymist. |
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