Sentence examples for patchwork of programs from inspiring English sources

The existing patchwork of programs is simply inadequate to serve the current need.

The ethanol giveaway represents a 21st-century add-on to a dizzying patchwork of programs for farmers.

While this patchwork of programs seems uneven, the coaches and players seem surprisingly at peace with the diversity of it all.

In New York State, billions of dollars have flowed through this patchwork of programs in recent years, although precise figures are hard to compile.

New York City has long been criticized for its costly special education services, a patchwork of programs that at best delivers inconsistent results.

But it has stopped financing tribal governments and the patchwork of programs and grants that form the thin blanket of support for reservations racked by poverty and other ills.

Feisty and combative, Mr. Gates says he finds I.B.M.'s software unimpressive -- a patchwork of programming projects, not as coherent or as integrated as Microsoft's competing offerings.

The change will bring a measure of cohesion to a patchwork system of programs largely chosen by school principals.

But as his segment on the dismal state of American sexual education went on to describe, the alternative sex ed in public schools is a patchwork system of programs that sometimes barely provide youth with any rigorous overview of sexual health at all.

Some customers get by through a patchwork of assistance programs offered by governments, charities and drug makers.

A system that moved from federal control to a patchwork of state programs has, until now, been shielded by prosperity and low unemployment.