Sentence examples for patchwork of agencies from inspiring English sources
All are overseen by a patchwork of agencies, already stretched thin, some monitoring hundreds of ships a day.
No one doubts that the archaic, overlapping patchwork of agencies needs modernising, with regulation refocused on a firm's activities rather than its legal form.
The U.S. regulatory framework is a patchwork of agencies that largely date to the Depression and have proved inadequate to restrain market excesses.
Gas pipelines that cross state boundaries are overseen by a patchwork of agencies, but all must be approved and permitted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
The patchwork of agencies is being held together by New Orleans police commanders at Harrah's Casino, which has been turned into a temporary command post.
In an era of global finance, they said, a single regulator with broad jurisdiction would be more effective than the patchwork of agencies charged with protecting New Yorkers from financial fraud.
In Bosnia, the high representative has no formal authority over the patchwork of international agencies involved in the transition.
The patchwork of government agencies and private landowners makes decision-making tough.
However, private student loans – which don't always carry the same consumer protections as federal student loans – have been overseen by a patchwork of government agencies.
The cases have come from a patchwork of federal agencies, state officials and shareholder suits, some of which have been resolved in multibillion-dollar settlements.
In the United States, election oversight is divided between state and local authorities and a patchwork of federal agencies and intelligence services.
