like a patchwork doll.

European banks remain balkanized, with a patchwork of national regulators seeking to promote their own champions.

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno sectarian patchwork.

Marine management remains a fragmented patchwork of national and international bodies, with separate and often overlapping jurisdictions, and no global accountability.

The country was historically about evenly balanced between Catholic and Protestant, with a complex patchwork of majorities over most of the country.

Instead, massive risks have supposedly been held at bay by voluntary standards promulgated by a patchwork of public and private standard setting organizations.

But, without a broadly consistent approach, the authorities risk creating a legal patchwork that would make cross border banking less efficient, more expensive, and more difficult to conduct.

From a regional perspective, the unfolding patchwork of overlapping bilateral, subregional, regional and cross continental initiatives needs to be rationalized so that they evolve in a manner supportive of the multilateral trading system.

Nowhere is this more true than in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the uneven blows of history and varied national policies have resulted in a patchwork of fates for our many peoples.

While continuing to highlight humankind s shared modernity and African origins, we must also begin to accept and understand the emerging patchwork nature of our biological history.

It would not only afford legal certainty to courts but would also obviate the need for a large number of exclusions under draft article 18, paragraph 2, resulting in a tattered patchwork of reservations to the draft convention.

If governments continue to stumble from one patchwork remedy to another a probability that remains uncomfortably high the delay in implementing a comprehensive solution will eventually overwhelm the defenses that the ECB has so courageously put in place.

If you show him real world images, if you show others like him real world images, they are unable to recognize most of the objects because the world to them is over fragmented it's made up of a collage, a patchwork, of regions of different colors and luminances.

With its high levels of rainfall, the Central African climate produces vegetation consisting of a wide variety of thick forest in the south and west of the country, wooded and grass savannah in the north, a patchwork of dry forests and savannahs, and steppe land in the far north east of the country.

Syria s problem is not simply Assad s presence in power removing his regime would not by itself harmonize the interests embedded in the country s patchwork quilt of ethnic and sectarian identities. A far more sustained and thoughtful consideration of Syria s future, and how the country will be governed democratically, is needed.

In mathematics, a binary relation on a set A is a collection of ordered pairs of elements of A .

A currency serves three functions, providing a means of payment, a unit of account, and a store of value.

A woman with a party of men is a token of peace.

(a) A list of countries which have proclaimed a state of emergency

It may refer to such a version of a text itself, a particular manuscript of the text, or a more complex manifestation of the text (e.g., a group of copies, or a group of excerpts).

The administration of Jowhar consists of a chairman (Mohamed Dheere), a vice chairman, a secretary and a council of elders.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

And all of a sudden, it brought a lot of money and a lot of attention.

A high melting point results from a high heat of fusion, a low entropy of fusion, or a combination of both.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Cranioplasty is a surgical repair of a defect or deformity of a skull.

a transaction involving the transfer of a debt or assignment of a claim.

Also a member of the Government of the Republic a member of a rural municipality or city government the President of the Republic a member of the Riigikogu or a county governor cannot work as a lay judge.

A of Japan is a city with a population of at least 200,000, and is delegated a subset of the functions delegated to a core city.

a quarter of a millimeter.

It s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty a kind of leaning over backwards.

A majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

The meals a pregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance or a grim chronicle of deprivation.

Botswana is a place with a lot of AIDS, Egypt is a place without a lot of AIDS.

A time to love, and a time to hate a time of war, and a time of peace.

A theory of truth for a language can serve as a theory of meaning.

In Southern Saami dialects, however, ' means a heap of stones, a rock or a group of rocks in a stretch of rapids, or even a sauna stove.

And it was almost like a sheet of paper, like a cutout of a childlike drawing of an oil spill or a sun.

Has a penetration of 550 mm RHA, a length of 116 cm and a weight of 18.5 kg.

A person with disabilities is a victim of a situation of disadvantage, because inequality of opportunities becomes obvious.

The offence carries a penalty of a fine or a term of imprisonment of up to two years.

(a) At the request of a majority of members of the Committee

A non theoretical example of a collective decision is enacting a law or set of laws under a constitution.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.