Sentence examples for a sloppy patchwork of from inspiring English sources

For MCI to recover and for Capellas to build his own legacy as a can-do cleaner-upper he must navigate 15 pending investigations and reviews, and whip into shape a firm that even admirers admit is a sloppy patcleaner-upper heuisitions.

The existing standards are a shambles, a patchwork of inherited rules riddled with escape clauses.

Underlying the cascade of errors, Dr. Chassin and Dr. Becher said, may have been "a culture of low expectations," in which hospital staff had gotten used to poor communication, a lack of teamwork, sloppy record keeping and a patchwork of computer systems that did not allow one department to transfer a patient's records to another department.

"A sloppy piece of defending costs us a lot.

It came from a sloppy choice of words.

It reminds us that even a centrally controlled system remains a patchwork of fiefdoms.

As a result, South Louisiana has become a patchwork of open water and remnant wetlands.

It was an odd patchwork of a program.

Main courses were a similar patchwork of hits and misses.

In "Saying Grace," for example, Rockwell drew upon a rich patchwork of ideas.

In Chicago, a vast patchwork of neighborhoods, every mayoral candidate needs a natural constituency.