Sentence examples for patchwork settlement from inspiring English sources

A report by the Montana Human Rights Network once described the reservation as home to "the most aggressive anti-Indian activity in Montana" because of its patchwork settlement.

But São Paulo's hilly geography and its patchwork of squatter settlements, which persist in areas close to the rivers, make this a forbidding task.

The sunniest months are May and June, when there is sunshine for an average duration of 5.5 and 6.5 hours a day, respectively, over most of the country, and the ancient patchwork of fields and settlements making up the landscape glows under a clear, vital light.

State insurance regulators, hamstrung by a patchwork of laws and regulations, have criticized life settlement brokers for coercing the ill and elderly to take out policies with the sole purpose of selling them back to the brokers, called "stranger-owned life insurance".

Dilnot points out that the present system is a patchwork, the legacy of "a bit of a muddle" in the 1948 welfare-state settlement, and therefore not amenable to an at-a-stroke reform.

A captivating five-minute video is packed with everything from images of classical Modernism, like Lucio Costa and Oscar Neimeyer's 1936 Ministry of Education and Health Building in Rio de Janeiro, to the patchwork of colorful corrugated metal sheds found in Capetown's slums and a Dogon settlement in Mali, with its network of labyrinthine alleyways.

DIEPSLOOT, South Africa — A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, the extremely poor and the hopelessly poor.

The cases have come from a patchwork of federal agencies, state officials and shareholder suits, some of which have been resolved in multibillion-dollar settlements.

See appliqué; patchwork.

English patchwork was subtle.

A patchwork quilt of vineyards?