The word "hotchpotch" is an acceptable and commonly used English word.
It can be used as a noun and an adjective. Noun: The hotchpotch of ingredients in the pot was completely unfamiliar to me. Adjective: Her outfit was a hotchpotch of colors and patterns.
Not a bad set of priorities for the next election manifesto, though the specific measures he mentioned, from freezing energy bills to votes for 16-year-olds seemed to be a hotchpotch of ideas rather than a coherent new way to run the economy.
The Marwood in The Lanes, for example, is a wonderful hotchpotch of reclaimed bits and pieces with old cupboard doors as table tops and even Apple Mac hard drive towers as stools.
But then, the systemic hotchpotch bequeathed by the last Labour government, and then turbocharged by Michael Gove, did rather leave the impression that anything goes for those who run their own schools.
Zip forward, and Labour's current hotchpotch policies of school standards, "master" [sic] teachers, and gym passes for the healthy – sorry, extra cash for the brightest – pales by comparison.
But an influential Kremlin website carried a commentary backing Mr Kuchma, smearing the protesters as a hotchpotch of fascists, opportunists and misguided reformers, and claiming recent events were a "tragedy" staged by westerners plotting against Russia.
That is not surprising, since the localism bill is a hotchpotch of reforms.
Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, a think-tank, says the Kremlin has sought to "isolate and stigmatise" such people, while creating a myth of a new Russian identity from a hotchpotch of Orthodox piety, traditional values and provincial distrust of urban elites.Gays and lesbians make easy targets.
On July 26 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), a competition watchdog, said it had agreed to bring a test case against eight banks before the High Court to seek some certainty after a hotchpotch of contradictory rulings in county courts.
The genetic material in them is indeed a hotchpotch derived from avian, human and swine sources, but all eight segments come most recently from pigs.On the positive side, the researchers discovered that the antigens (proteins that provoke an immune response) found in different samples have remained similar to each other.
He was thinking of much nastier rulers than well-meaning Mr Brown; but there is an echo of this risk in Labour's intrusive attitude to obesity, drinking and other forms of naughtiness.The idea of the state that emerges from this learned hotchpotch is one that knows it ought to be small, but somehow cannot resist getting bigger; a state that creates risks by trying too hard to eliminate them.
Mr Demirtas, whose newly formed People's Democracy, a hotchpotch of Kurds, leftists, liberals, pious Muslims, Alevis and Christians, doubled his party's share of the vote in Istanbul and Izmir and trebled it in Ankara, bagging 9.7% nationwide.
