Sentence examples for through patchwork from inspiring English sources

"What happens here is that we go through this year after year because we manage through patchwork crisis management instead of passing comprehensive solutions," Mr. McClellan said.

"It's crazy," said the governor, who believes that resistance to sprawl has been building a national constituency that grows with each day's rush-hour crawl by suburbanites through patchwork counties of farm tracts and mushrooming developments.

Recent studies indicate that metabolic networks evolve at the local level through patchwork evolution and retrograde evolution [ 1- 3].

Some of Sound Portraits' annual budget of $250,000 is raised through contributions; the rest is begged, borrowed and scraped together through a patchwork quilt of public and private grants.

Virtually all Colorado's "floatable" rivers run through a patchwork of government and private land.

Instead, they are trying to extend their longevity through a patchwork of alliances".

We headed farther south, through a patchwork of dense secondary forests, open fields, houses and small orchards.

Some customers get by through a patchwork of assistance programs offered by governments, charities and drug makers.

Mr. Roussève cuts — literally — through this patchwork, using the entire show to walk a diagonal across the stage.

Similarly, through a patchwork of seemingly unconnected fragments, we are introduced to the deaf Asuntha, a girl whom the boys first see, "exercising on a trampoline".

Euan Sutherland stood down complaining that the group, which is mutually owned and controlled through a patchwork of committees and regional boards, is ungovernable.