Sentence examples for patchy investment from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, Portuguese companies have had a patchy investment record there.

This has resulted in patchy investment and potentially costly forest production.

A senior Bush administration official acknowledged that considerable new generating capacity was coming on line without government action, but said the investment was patchy.

With fewer companies offering pensions, contributions to 401(k) plans patchy because of volatile investment markets and even Social Security's future uncertain, many Americans are facing the prospect of working well into what used to be thought of as "the golden years".

Inevitably, after 10 years of huge investment and such a patchy record of achievement, next month's anniversary will provoke a lot of soul searching in aid agencies about what went wrong in Afghanistan.

However, work is much more intense and stressful; investment in skills is patchy and lots of people feel overqualified; and, as the article rightly says, people are more tightly controlled.

To take a small example, the modest town of Charlottesville in Virginia has 13 water authorities.Not surprisingly, investment in water has been patchy and neglected.

Efforts to attract private investment for infrastructure have had only patchy success.

But end-of-life care is patchy across the country, with a need for greater investment to reduce health inequalities, particularly as more and more people with often complex sets of symptoms are dying at home.

Antitrust enforcement in general is patchy.Murky corporate governance in Italy has also been a deterrent to investment, and perhaps even to the creation of successful companies.

Optimists hope he will get to grips with other problems as well, including chronic under-investment that has left Nigeria with clogged roads and patchy power.