The nation became a patchwork of the pristine and the polluted, the sacred and the profane.
Like a number of areas in the north, Kunduz Province has become a patchwork of armed militias with overlapping territories.
But pessimists worry that this critical part of the emerging electronic web could become a patchwork of private roads, perhaps isolating some users.
The Illinois ban, passed by the legislature, creates some consistency in what had become a patchwork of regulations adopted by municipalities around the state, including Chicago.
It was understaffed, it had become a patchwork of renovations and additions, and there was nothing native about the place beyond the staff.
He said: "Over the years this has become a patchwork, with slightly incoherent antisocial behaviour measures - some favoured by some councils, and some by others.
Since the districts have had considerable control over their schools' curriculums, the system has become a patchwork of educational philosophies and priorities in recent decades.
Maybe in a footnote you would learn that my time is split between theatre, Olin Library and its caffeine supply, and the friends who have become a patchwork family.
The Eagle Ford Shale region, in the scrub country of South Texas, has become a patchwork of thousands of drilling pad sites, the night sky illuminated by the blue and yellow flames of gas flares.
