Sentence examples for patchwork of rules from inspiring English sources
It says the current patchwork of rules leads to confusion.
Businesses operate amid a patchwork of rules and securities markets, and fraudulent firms can exploit this.
And as businesses go global, they face a complicated patchwork of rules.
The patchwork of rules and standards impairs communication and makes failures more likely, Mr. Hogan said.
The result is a patchwork of rules on the matter of pigs and people.
Worried about the emerging patchwork of rules, in 2009 manufacturers agreed to higher national fuel-efficiency standards.
A patchwork system of rules and special interests that can speak loudly in state capitals was part of what the national rule was intended to fix, she said.
Instead of a single answer to the question, "How young is too young?" many countries are shifting to a "patchwork system of rules and exceptions", says Kaye Wellings, a sexual-health researcher at London University.
As a result, the Federal Communications Commission -- which regulates telecommunications -- is now eager to put their footprint in this space by knitting a patchwork set of rules that would apply narrowly to broadband companies while exempting everyone else.
The system would supplement the current patchwork of patent rules in the European Union; under the current system, a ruling in one of the union's 27 countries has no automatic bearing on another.
EBay, the auction giant, indicated it could support some sort of minimal regulation if it curtailed states' rights to impose a patchwork of differing rules.
