like a patchwork doll.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.