There is a satisfying immediacy in the saving of lives, the patching up of the bumped and bruised, even in the abusive, drunken chaos of a Saturday night waiting room.
I think that you would benefit from treatment aimed at cure rather than simply at "patching up".
It seems odd to have a policy that on the one hand we allow arms to be supplied and on the other we spend taxpayers money patching up the people who may have been injured from the use of those arms," she said.
Karen González said Germany had profited from the crisis, abandoned the EU's core principles and had "preferred patching things up than undertaking a true cure at the heart of these problems which are now suffocating countries like Spain, which could backfire".
Rojava is under the sway of a party with links to the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK), which has recently been patching up long-standing differences with Iraq-based Kurdish parties.
More trade and some Chinese investment in Indian manufacturing are the expected outcomes.What is more, the trip will also have to be about patching up relations after Mr Xi's visit last year ended in tatters.
Pride played as big a part as economics in patching up the system: just about every devaluation of the French franc seems to have been dressed up as a revaluation of the D-mark.Europe's institutions served it less well once it had more or less caught up with America.
SIR - Patching up the United Kingdom by permitting the Scots to tax themselves avoids some hard questions ("Tax and mend", November 3rd).
If, on the other hand, as has happened in the past, the offensive proves short-lived and the Pakistani government swiftly reverts to patching up peace deals with local militants, American exasperation will mount.In fact, neither president has America's full confidence.
FEW Balkan countries have succeeded in patching up an old quarrel with a neighbour, let alone when this involves being nicer to a dissatisfied ethnic minority.
It could devalue a little bit each month, to the order of 2%, patching up the loss of competitiveness from inflation with a compensating fall in the exchange rate.
