Sentence examples for previous patchwork from inspiring English sources

And no athletes should have to face the previous patchwork policy on sex testing, wondering what will happen if their particular condition is not clearly explained in the rules.

Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette's much-vaunted London sewage system, built in the 1860s and 70s, was a huge improvement on the previous patchwork of rivers, gullies and conduits but, on about 50 days a year when rain is heavy, raw sewage is still discharged into the Thames.

Unlike the previous patchwork of standards, the Common Core was developed with significant input from educators and content experts, like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics".

At most, governments have added patches to what was already a patchwork of previous attempts at reform.

A patchwork of previous studies involving MD simulations, NMR, fluorescence spectroscopy, and calorimetry have shown that some of these compounds partition into and cross bilayers and change bilayer properties.

In a patchwork approach, previous research does highlight increased RPE and mental exertion to prolonged and intense match-play, 51 increased error rates throughout longer or more taxing drills and simulated play 18 and a slowing of movement and hitting demands throughout repeated high-intensity on-court drills.

Amid this patchwork of state waivers, previous attempts to overhaul the law have failed.

Except that it has been bricked together from hundreds of two-by-fours from previous Washburn installations and has a radiant, patchwork effect.

Even so, had the Middle East remained what it had been for the previous two-and-a-half millennia, a patchwork of different faiths ruled by distant emperors, they might well have clung on to their ancestral lands.

This bill aims to close loopholes that have allowed Iran to press on toward the bomb, bragging up increased uranium enrichment despite a patchwork of longstanding U.S. sanctions, plus three previous U.N. sanctions resolutions in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

The Code's inclusion of all countries, sectors and types of health workers makes it distinct from previous declarations by filling the perceived gaps among the patchwork of previous country-, region- and profession-specific instruments (see Table  3) [ 43, 46].