Sentence examples for patchwork scheme from inspiring English sources

Lord Curzon, the British viceroy of India at the turn of the last century, fumed, "No patchwork scheme — and all our present recent schemes... are mere patchwork — will settle the Waziristan problem.

His patchwork scheme (incorporating an original short film titled "How Would U Feel?") recalls hybrid creations in American avant-garde cinema (imitating watercolor, line drawing, collage), as well as the dreamily puddling creations of 1970s animation, with their spontaneous sense of cosmology.

He said action on the national level, in the form of the Lieberman-Warner legislation or a similar economywide carbon cap-and-trade scheme, was preferable to the patchwork system that state governments were putting in place.

Crowley had a patchwork system of beliefs.

He clearly didn't care for the patchwork of schemes – but he raised it in neutral terms.

Under the council's watch, film education has been devolved to a lamentable patchwork of unrelated schemes and funded bodies with differing agendas.

There are many causes for this, including a nationwide patchwork of regulatory schemes that are in some instances overly permissive and in others excessively restrictive.

He started with promising news, saying that China's patchwork of pension schemes have come a long way.

There is, in short, no coherent transport policy, but instead a patchwork response to whatever schemes are put forward by rail enthusiasts or local authorities.

The result has been a patchwork quilt of DRM schemes, each with its own set of rules and privileges.

Ni et al. [22] proposed another semifragile reversible data hiding scheme based on the patchwork algorithm.