Sentence examples for patchy commitment from inspiring English sources
It "would certainly be even more influential among the Northern Lights if it had all the lights on all the time," says Alexander Stubb, Finland's Europe minister, in a diplomatically gnomic nod to Britain's patchy commitment to the union.And although the Hanseatic states share trading traditions, their priorities differ.
Trade in services has been getting freer, although many countries' WTO commitments are still patchy.
Bhutto senior's commitment to socialism or secularism was patchy; his commitment to power was total.
It is in character that North Korea 's commitment to the NPT had all along been patchy.
Though his later albums were often considered patchy and polemical, the unstoppable Peter Tosh never abandoned his political commitment.
The police response to child sexual abuse has been patchy, with some forces failing to live up to their initial commitments to confront the scale of the crime, according to an official report.
A number of police agencies around the world use this approach, although its implementation has been patchy, has often not been sustained and is particularly vulnerable to changes in the commitment of senior staff and lack of organisational support (Scott and Kirby 2012).
Despite this apparent political commitment, available evidence suggests that delivery of maternal health services in Pakistan is patchy and fragmented, of poor quality, and inequitably distributed and utilized [ 55, 57, 58].
Many providers wanted a simple universal set of HIV prevention messages to use with people with HIV, demonstrating that commitment to HIV harm reduction (boasting a veritable toolbox of behavioural choices for people with HIV ) is contested and patchy.
When I take out Gloria Steinem, my eleven-year-old pit-bull-mix rescue who lost her eyes to cancer and her legs to abuse, and is really just a patchy-haired torso I carry around in a Baby Bjorn, people tend to be pretty impressed with my selfless commitment.
