Sentence examples for patchwork of systems from inspiring English sources

In Italy, there is a patchwork of systems for all vehicles that includes motorbikes.

While management was focused on piecing together NTL's patchwork of systems, the quality of products and the level of service suffered.

Supporters see the new measure as a means to unify a patchwork of systems governing treatment of migrants who overstay their visas or who, in far lesser numbers, slip clandestinely across borders.

All this serves as a reminder that the United States' voting system is an incoherent patchwork of systems of varying degrees of reliability, many with easily hackable machines, all managed by local election officials of varying levels of probity and competence on computers with no notable security.

Given the patchwork of systems now used to watch shows at home — from driving to a store to rent a video, to mailing DVDs back and forth, to video-on-demand and Internet downloads — Comcast seems to be trying to impose some order and suggest a direction for the future.

Agrawal's position is based on the idea that every society has some sort of knowledge system, which may be a patchwork of systems with multiple origins (e.g., European, indigenous).

But calls by airlines and governments to agree to a global system first through the U.N. organization to avoid a patchwork of competing systems have only further exasperated E.U. officials, who have shown few signs of backing down.

Specifically, she said, the state needs to standardize its patchwork of voting systems so that citizens in counties that use punchcard systems are not disenfranchised.

Still, America is a big country, and its election system is actually a clumsily stitched-together patchwork of state systems, each with their own rules.

They are the result of neglect, often deliberate, of an antiquated patchwork of registration systems that make it far too hard to get on the rolls.

The depth of crisis varies in each state, indicative of the complex patchwork of defense systems that are funded and administered differently dependent on jurisdiction.