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.
Beneath me in this little corner of southwestern France the landscape rolls lazily away, a light mist settling in its green patchwork hollows, wreathing plump old trees and far-flung clusters of slate and whitewash.
Though seemingly simple questions, for which the court has allocated just two and a half hours of oral arguments, such a consolidation has long been the wish of gay rights campaigners who hope it will finally help settle the patchwork of competing legal precedents into one national law.
Settling Velocity of ANAMMOX Granules.
Not surprisingly, then, domestic abuse cases have been settled in a patchwork of decisions.
The real Leopold and Agnes did settle here with their patchwork family — eventually there were 18 children in all — and made their home and religious center in Klosterneuburg (Kloster, or "monastery," and Neuburg, or "new castle") on what was actually a former Roman fortress.
Liberals have tossed up one legislative Hail Mary after another only to get slapped down by public opinion and settle for half-measures which have led cumulatively to the patchwork absurdity of the status quo.
The sons of a minor Norman lord, Tancred, the three settled in southern Italy and Sicily, which were at that time a patchwork of warring towns and principalities, many under the influence of the Byzantine Empire.
Barnaby, the black sheep former delinquent in "A Patchwork Planet," needs to know if people can change: "Did they have to settle for just being who they were forever?" From his heavy-lifting Rent-a-Back work among the elderly, he learns this about couples: "It made no difference whether they'd married the right person.
A patchwork of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Afghans pack the streets of a community that settled here 50 years ago, when a British businessman hired large numbers of Punjabi Sikhs to work in his rubber factory.
