As you approach Jersey by air, your plane's shadow touches cliffs rising from the English Channel, then patchwork fields with wooded dingles between them, then four‑square buildings with groomed lawns.
In the ecosystem of the market, Nwaosu is a hustler — a word with largely positive connotations in Canaan patois, a patchwork of English, French, Chinese, Igbo, and other African languages.
Noguera said that there have been some successful reforms -- he pointed to programs for English language learners -- but the patchwork of programs has yielded a disjointed system.
English schools, by contrast, are a multilayered, accumulated patchwork of provision drawing on private and public, religious and secular.
Tauris, which recounts how the Assad dynasty (there are various spellings of the name in English) came to rule Syria and "keep the complex patchwork of minorities, factions and opponents securely under control" for half a century. .
The province was also a rural patchwork quilt of different cultures and religions, unlike predominantly English and Congregationalist New England.
The bald summit gives views stretching from the very English Cotswolds to the very Welsh Black Mountains, endless quiet miles of pastoral patchwork between them.
Burberry's take on 'Patchwork, Pattern and Prints' was more worldly than British, but a feeling of English eccentricity still dominated through the house's signature trenches, ponchos and polite dresses.
He stood there, squarely in front of a post-match patchwork of brand signage, next to Jack Wilshere, looking every inch the slightly older statesman of English football, helped in his dignity no doubt by the earnestness of his younger companion and by the deferential tone of his interviewer.
