Examples of using Is a patchwork in English and their translations into Spanish
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His face is a patchwork of skin and stitches.
Treating the patient without knowing their abnormal pattern of behaviour is a patchwork in healing, but is not healing as such.
Queens is a patchwork of multicultural neighborhoods.
Today, in the absence of an established central Government,Somalia is a patchwork of great numbers of independently operating local administrations.
Europe is a patchwork of so many and very different local communities.
The landscape surrounding the Lodge is a patchwork of forests, mountains, rivers, and lakes.
Brazil is a patchwork of flavours: Paraná, São Paulo, Bahía, Espíritu Santo(historically the coffee of the popes)… That is why it is very difficult to classify coffees from Brazil under one label.
Like any city Dublin is a patchwork of different areas.
Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus,and the language is a patchwork of phrases from Plato, Lucian, Alciphron and others.
Sri Lanka is a patchwork of ethnic groups and religions.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies(IFRC)states that the present state of international disaster law is a patchwork of over 130 diverse instruments,a majority of which are bilateral treaties concluded for the most part between European nations.
The result is a patchwork of different outcomes for biodiversity.
What does exist is a patchwork of legal instruments at global or regional levels focusing on various aspects of forestry, such as trade in tropical timber, forestry research, the protection of certain endangered species, and the protection of certain types of forest environment.
Without prejudging the outcome, should the negotiations on a post-Kyoto agreement prove protracted,what will likely emerge in the near term is a patchwork of regional and national climate change regimes with some countries implementing fairly strict mitigation measures, others taking no meaningful action, and a fair number of countries with policies that lie somewhere in between.
Because the Park is a patchwork of human communities on private lands and protected public lands, human-wildlife conflict often arises, and the quality of wildlife habitat of the region as a whole is constrained by the land use patterns and landowner actions on the Park's private lands.
REN TV's network is a patchwork of 406 independent broadcasting companies in Russia and the CIS.
The upshot is a patchwork of often poorly applied national control regimes.
The landscape is a patchwork of sunflower and wheat fields, spread out over rolling hills.
After all, the US is a patchwork of different regulations and laws, both at the state and federal levels.
The surrounding area is a patchwork of rolling hills, fields, and woodland with little within walking distance besides the pretty countryside itself.
The regulation of Ontario's water quality is a patchwork of laws, guidelines and policy.129 Despite Walkerton and the flurry of promises from the government in response, Ontarians still do not enjoy the legislative protection of their drinking water.
The current theory about Nestor is that the Chronicle is a patchwork of many fragments of chronicles, and that the name of Nestor was attached to it because he either wrote the majority of it or was responsible for piecing all the fragments together.
The fields were a patchwork of clover.
For centuries, Spain was a patchwork of different peoples, cultures and religions.
The whole feudal structure was a patchwork of smaller land holders.
Russia, generally speaking, was a patchwork of ethnicities.
The previous discrimination legislation was a patchwork of statutes.
In the 11th century, Europe was a patchwork of feudal states, extending from the Mediterranean to the North Sea.