One participant observed that, while there is a growing international academic Twitter community in Australia, it is currently somewhat patchy: 'In states like NSW, there is a very healthy Twitter community…less so in WA…although it's starting…' [SUP2].
The last Labour government began the project in 2002, creating non-selective schools financed from the public purse but outside the control of local authorities, which for decades had presided over a patchy system of state secondary schools, known as comprehensives.It is uphill work.
Under the coalition, the patchy egalitarianism of postwar state schooling is giving way to a more traditional philosophy: stricter uniforms and rules, pupils organised into private school-style "houses", more powerful headteachers, more competition and difference between schools.
Besides, marriage equality was spreading like patchy sunshine across the blue states, and any state that recognized a same-sex Vermont union might find a subsequent heterosexual marriage invalid or even illegal.
All he has is patchy backing, in some states, of the Reform party, a conservative, libertarian group a long, long way from his progressive roots.
Cytokine-hormone network deregulations underpin pathologies ranging from autoimmune disorders to cancer, but our understanding of these networks in physiological/pathophysiological states remains patchy.
Instead, Egyptians got six decades of autocracy, with generals manning the machinery of state behind a patchy sham of democracy.
What distinguishes patchy endorsements from ordinary mental states like beliefs is that they fail to respond to the semantic contents of other mental states in a systematic way.
It was patchy, overpriced, and weighed down by state monopolies.
