The Senate approved its own measures, incremental but significant.

Listening at night to each incremental measure of how much time a loved one has left.

Governor Pataki has supported several incremental measures to expand the rights of domestic partners, but has shown no enthusiasm for the marriage bill.

Working on these problems with incremental measures, step by step, is harder, some health planners say, but is probably all the political system can handle.

But this week the Senate effortlessly swatted down a series of incremental measures to prevent abuses by H.M.O.'s.

Meaningful simplification is unlikely to result from incremental measures, however well intentioned.

In England a series of incremental measures amended it.

Since the demise of the Clinton health care proposal, advocates of wider health insurance coverage have been pursuing their goal through relatively incremental measures, like this bill.

Is there not a danger that, by piecemeal incremental measures, it will take even more time to turn the market?

Following the failure of the Clinton health care plan, Kennedy went against his past strategy and sought incremental measures instead.