Sentence examples for a patchwork of actions from inspiring English sources
Even as the Democratic senators were still speaking, President Obama issued a statement praising the proposal as "an important step," and he warned that lack of federal action would "leave the door open to a patchwork of actions at the state and local level that are inconsistent and, as we have seen recently, often misguided".
MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG'S plan to build or preserve 65,000 housing units is less a cohesive single program than a patchwork of actions and aspirations; a sum of parts as small as the rezoning of a few rather scraggly blocks in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx that might -- just might -- create some 300 apartments.
A patchwork of actions has been taken to either ban or restrict the use of coal-tar-based sealcoat in the United States.
The screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr is itself a patchwork of action-movie themes — including storm-trooping soldiers in black helicopters and an intelligence agency with a covert program — that have been recombined along Grimm Brothers story lines.
Over the past decade, he said, American companies have become more vulnerable to a patchwork of global antitrust actions.
Elected leaders across many parts of the region have vowed to support undocumented residents, issuing a patchwork of statements denouncing ICE actions.
Janácek's 1924 work – short, rhapsodic and pantheistic – stitches together several stories in a patchwork of quick-fire musical action and rapid dialogue.
But consumer advocates say that these state and federal actions create only a patchwork of safeguards for consumers.
Bush proposed Thursday that patients be allowed to sue in either state or federal court, as long as there was a single federal statute--not a patchwork of state laws--delineating the cause of action.
It's time for Newport-Mesa Unified School Distaket to tactiontion and become an education leader, not a patchwork of success and failure.
Residents and experts said that while the actions were significant, the problems many drivers face across St . Louis County where a patchwork of municipal courts enforce an array of ordinances, were so widespread that Ferguson alone could not fix them.
