Sentence examples for patchwork of power from inspiring English sources

In the early 1970's, Yes helped invent progressive rock: one of its best compositions, "Heart of the Sunrise," was an extraordinary 10-minute patchwork of power balladry and avant-garde funk.

He figures the company's patchwork of power generation, aviation services and stadium management businesses could be worth $45 per share, well above the current price of $30.

Mr. Karzai has drawn support from a patchwork of traditional Afghan power brokers, some with brutal reputations, but he has also been warned that Western financial support hinges on the appointment of reform-minded ministers who will not steal or waste foreign aid money.

It combines a dizzying patchwork of influences from 1980s power ballads to hip-hop into what one critic described as "the sound of uninhibited, unironic hands-in-the-air joy".

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has pushed utilities to submit plans for the creation of regional transmission authorities to expedite the movement of power and smooth the patchwork nature of the deregulated market.

For all the innovation these relationships have brought to business, there's been a price: the custom patchwork of disparate technologies that now power global enterprises.

A spatio-temporal patchwork of environmental variables might explain the observed patterns.

We are not going to supply the world with 68 TW of power by cobbling together a patchwork of 34 different technologies.

Efforts to decentralise government in Indonesia – a patchwork of 17,000 islands with a population of 240 million – have given a disproportionate share of power to the bupati (elected high sheriffs), who run areas roughly equivalent to a British county.

BERLIN — It has been almost a century since European powers sewed a patchwork of statehood in the Middle East, with Britain and France competing — then as now — to take the lead in establishing a new order.

A government consultation paper on the forestry plans explicitly talks of "shifting the balance of power from 'Big Government' to 'Big Society'", as the state gives way to a locally responsive patchwork of "civil society, businesses and individuals".