Sentence examples for by patchwork from inspiring English sources

Eventually, the Ashleys became known for their mumsy floral prints, inspired by patchwork quilting, shards from a soup tureen, Victorian-era endpapers.

While there was enough agreement in 2012 to cobble together a two-year transportation bill — supported by patchwork funding — the consensus of years past was notably absent.

Guided by patchwork memories, she leads him to the churchyard and unearths a miniature version of the maze from a grave that bears her own name.

The pattern holds true in state after state: scandalous disclosures about the care of the mentally ill in newspapers or on television, followed by patchwork reform.

Boston's larger metropolitan region, one of the United States oldest urban fabrics, is characterized by patchwork development of its old pre-colonial urban core and an expanding urban influence on its periphery.

Together with the pan-genomic evidence, it strongly demonstrates that most PAH-degrading strains share the same genetic sources and pathway evolution by patchwork assembly (assembly of existing pathways in new combinations), which has been systematically evaluated as highly successful [ 9].

If oil companies can't figure out a way to tap this gas, then governments will come in with new potentially-punitive regulations -- a process that will likely be messy given that fracking is mostly regulated by patchwork-quilt state rules.

Because insurance is now a state-by-state patchwork, such an approach would conceivably enhance competition by creating an interstate market.

Currently, insurance regulation is mainly a state-by-state patchwork.

It has, therefore, largely fallen to a state-by-state patchwork of laws to regulate this issue — or not.

This move stitched up holes in a state-by-state patchwork of participants to make the market everywhere more competitive.