In the summer of 2010, Ms. Mourey shared a three-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, Mass., where her $800 rent was scrounged together from a patchwork of part-time gigs: bartending, blogging, go-go dancing at nightclubs and working at a tanning salon, where she remembers the singularly depressing chore of mopping up customers' sweat.
Cloud Atlas was eventually financed, appropriately, with a patchwork of international capital: part-Warner, part-German Federal Film Fund, part-Asian investors, part-preselling distribution rights to territories around the globe.
Young people entering the workforce today are more likely to bounce from job to job by choice, or collect a patchwork of contract and part-time work, than to be hired and summarily dismissed.
In case of the LEE this may be the result of a recurrent loss and acquisition of genes (patchwork model), or of a loss of parts of the locus by deletion events subsequent to its primary acquisition as an entity [49].
The Manifesto Club says the elderly, young people, buskers and homeless people could be deemed criminals as councils and other authorities introduce a "patchwork of criminal law" as part of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act.
Here's a band led by a guy who plays turntables, whose recordings are a patchwork of machines and instruments playing parts that are rarely notated and are then mixed to resonate like dance records — how do you reproduce all of this using an orchestral string section, horns, and a rock band?
These mergers have required a lot of patchwork on the part of signmakers.
Washington's focus on the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the demands from some in American politicians that it be kept from power at all costs, concerns large numbers of people who see the organisation as part of the patchwork of their country's politics - even if some Egyptians share American fears.
After the mid-1990s, this region had become a patchwork of ceasefires and "frozen" conflicts, thanks in part to Russia.
The Ossetians, who number about 60,000, are part of the patchwork of ethnic groups that inhabit the mountains of the Caucasus.
