He can't fathom, for example, how "Hollywood Ending," a patchy, forgettable effort from 2002, "was not thought of as a first-rate, extraordinary comedy".
However, an increase in taxonomist curiosity towards non-surveyed localities near those previously identified as the richest allows one to obtain better results, provided that the species richness pattern is not too patchy and the effort for discovering the true map is not too difficult.
In awarding its peace prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Nobel committee has recognised more than 16 years of difficult, dangerous and largely unsung work and one of the greatest success stories in the long, patchy history of multilateral efforts to make the world a safer place.
The medical NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a scathing attack on the international community for its slow and patchy response to the effort to stamp out Ebola in west Africa.
But the relief effort is patchy.
So the state should fear a serious epidemic.Regional disparities suggest India's AIDS control efforts have been patchy at best.
These efforts have produced patchy results, but South Africa, once an international pariah, has become a favourite mediator for addressing Africa's myriad conflicts.But the Myanmar vote is an awkward way to advance such worthy aims.
The worst practices of Saddam's regime did not apparently die with him, and whereas numerous logs show members of the coalition making genuine attempts to stop torture in Iraqi custody, it is clear their efforts were both patchy and half-hearted.
Beam trawling effort is extremely patchy, and fishers have favoured 'tows' which they trawl repeatedly while adjacent areas may be virtually unfished.
Clearly, trawling effort is very patchy,[9] and while some areas of seabed are trawled >4 times per year, others are virtually unfished.
