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"patchy" Definitions
  1. existing or happening in some places and not others synonym uneven
  2. (North American English also spotty) not complete; good in some parts, but not in others

907 Sentences With "patchy"

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Despite his oddly patchy beard — isn't he a barber?
Training courses are patchy; employment offices offer almost no guidance.
Anderson had only patchy recollections of the night in question.
But sharing is patchy; a lot of countries get nothing.
Once you recognize the problem — patchy lawns, thin lawns, etc.
They managed to look sculpted without looking muddy or patchy.
Data on abortion late in pregnancy in America are patchy.
For the Liberal Democrats the results were at best patchy.
Access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
EVANS: AND THE EARNINGS WERE JUST A LITTLE BIT PATCHY.
That is despite a patchy record for Indian edtech firms.
Almost all the buildings there were illegal, and services patchy.
It wasn't filled with flowers, just dust and patchy grass.
Sensitivity toward the Holocaust and knowledge of it remain patchy.
Attempts to achieve justice in older cases have been patchy.
The company has had more patchy success at boosting sales.
English teaching is both patchy and in the wrong patches.
At times his voice sounded a little patchy and rough.
There was no leverage and the evidence base was patchy.
But such "regional policies" have a patchy record, at best.
He said the current communications network was patchy and slow.
Patchy electricity and cell service plagued the island for months.
Expect gray skies, patchy drizzle and the occasional shower today.
Out of three dinners, my first was the most patchy.
I've got such patchy knowledge of so much other music.
The singing and orchestral playing were patchy, the pacing lurchy.
Surveillance for resistance on farms is patchy and politically sensitive.
Only in his softer singing did his voice seem patchy.
Some patchy areas of fog with lowered visibility are possible.
Today (Thursday): We start the day with some patchy fog.
Trilobites Keeping track of dolphins is a slippery, patchy process.
Versatile and widely used, palm oil has suffered a patchy reputation.
Photos showed a patchy roof and a grimy and outdated interior.
A patchy knowledge of those events is nothing unusual in Russia.
Medical care for China's retired migrants is patchy to non-existent.
Can the tie-up defy the patchy history of automotive megadeals?
Can the tie-up defy the patchy history of carmaking megadeals?
Patchy employment is by no means the preserve of poor countries.
LGBT employees say policies to prevent discrimination at work are patchy.
Partly, no doubt, this is due to a patchy pensions system.
And they, at the moment, that is very patchy and underfunded.
Across Europe and around the world access to PrEP remains patchy.
We're all born naked and the rest is patchy facial hair.
Where she was patchy now, she had been sure and true.
Nevertheless, investors face long delays and patchy coverage in most countries.
Ted Cruz, who showed up after Thanksgiving with a patchy beard.
He also had to weather plenty of his own patchy play.
But reforms crucial to keep foreign aid flowing have been patchy.
Expect patchy showers this morning and very gusty winds this afternoon.
That results in white, pale or patchy coloration of their hide.
His creation, "The Runaway," is patchy, hybrid, flawed and often sensational.
Whistleblower protections are patchy in Europe; Denmark's are among its weakest.
True tax reform is not just rate reductions and patchy simplifications.
But the church's record on tackling abuse is patchy at best.
But progress is patchy and too slow, the report authors warn.
One day they are patchy, next they're like confetti in the sink.
In the next, broken bricks and other refuse littered the patchy grass.
Researchers still have a patchy understanding of the timeline for brain development.
Today Tanzania is on the descent from patchy democracy towards slapdash dictatorship.
Late arrivals are another headache for customers, as well as patchy inventory.
The data underscores the fragile and patchy nature of Japan's economic recovery.
"It was patchy and it was a tough first quarter," Sorrell said.
Certainly the track record of resource companies is patchy in this regard.
But patchy rains have left crops highly variable across the western provinces.
So Gaza lacks sophisticated medical equipment and has patchy access to medicines.
Residents who rely on patchy public transport struggle to get to jobs.
Patchy fog will be possible along coastal areas of California until noon.
Recovery will be slow and patchy, but the worst is probably past.
And 5G will remain a very patchy patchwork for the foreseeable future.
Even the famed Wimbledon grass — brown, patchy and wilting — looks injured, too.
The performance of shares listed under the new regime has been patchy.
She says the water made Jariah's skin dry and patchy, sometimes discolored.
Beijing had a limited, temporary ban in 2008, but enforcement was patchy.
But the data to prove the case ranges from patchy to nonexistent.
Researchers call such animals "ghost moose" because they look white or patchy.
The data are patchy, particularly at the bottom and apex of the pyramid.
But in some parts of the health care system, supplies are already patchy.
The data are patchy, particularly at the bottom and top of the scale.
Electricity and water services are patchy, while cables hang loose in the wind.
In Leer, access has been granted again by the government, but it's patchy.
The first part of the book examines Mr Snowden's rather patchy professional career.
But in fact the Chinese government's record in promoting specific industries is patchy.
In terms of economic performance, however, it looks as patchy as its predecessors.
The survey is an early indicator - though a patchy one - of wage pressures.
Another area of concern, for which international data are patchy, is mental health.
His sense of urgency is not matched by experience, and progress is patchy.
Deep cost cuts have already been made and Teva's acquisitions history is patchy.
Statistics on cryptocurrencies are patchy because their trading is unregulated in most countries.
Geographically, corruption tends to be patchy—or perhaps the investigation of it is.
The company also sells range-extending WiFi beacons to help eliminate patchy coverage.
Because the powder is so soft, it blends without looking ruddy or patchy.
Across Asia, rising incomes and patchy insurance coverage make for an attractive market.
Samsung's high-end smartphones have had a patchy track record on hardware issues.
In addition to the timeline and symbology being off, the characterization is patchy.
The paint on the flower beds was chipping, and the grass was patchy.
Now it takes all day to fill up on the patchy, dry grass.
They make these crumbling buildings and patchy fields seem strangely polished and picturesque.
Industrywide tracking of supplemental revenue from one-off events is patchy at best.
The US system is notoriously expensive and access to primary care is patchy.
Amateurs have long provided much of the patchy knowledge we have about nature.
Patchy rains have raised fears that more people will face hunger this year.
Rains last week in most of its cocoa belt were patchy, farmers said.
Affordable or free legal assistance has improved in some places but remains patchy.
The historical correlation between stock market and economic downturns is patchy, at best.
The banks have "patchy track records in executing strategic programs," S&P said.
Law enforcement of those driving under the influence of marijuana could be patchy.
International economic sanctions against Sudan have been too patchy and partial to bring results.
Apple says iOS 13 will also enable improved video downloading option for patchy networks.
Even in Britain, where the hospice movement began, access to palliative care is patchy.
That is particularly true in Europe, where the banks' recovery has been distinctly patchy.
Social-media platforms also have a record of patchy enforcement of their user policies.
Google says it will work the same whether your network is superfast or patchy.
Mr Son's empire has become too big to get by with patchy, amateur governance.
It's designed to be easy to use and load quickly, even on patchy connections.
Under current equivalence rules, access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
All millennial impatience jokes aside, patchy cellular or crappy Wi-Fi is seriously inconvenient.
Bitcoin is largely unregulated across Asia, while rules governing bitcoin exchanges can be patchy.
Too much weight was indeed given to patchy intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
But the IMF's track record here is patchy at best, and is worth noting.
Many small-business owners have little collateral, patchy records and non-existent credit histories.
So far, SoftBank's domestic acquisitions have worked well but the record overseas is patchy.
Von der Leyen's patchy cabinet record may also prompt questions in the European Parliament.
Explosions and other mishaps are common in China, often because of patchy safety enforcement.
The auditors also found that the attendance records that Pemex did provide were patchy.
Some reviewers complained about patchy application and fallout, which is disappointing considering the price.
ETECA officials had warned that, at least initially, service would be patchy at best.
But the result is something of a stalemate: arguable as history, patchy as drama.
Indonesia, one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, has a patchy safety record.
The family yearns to stop communicating via patchy video calls and reunite in Europe.
The patchy efforts undermine the agreement and hobble direct connections within Africa, say analysts.
Slight shower chances and patchy fog may slowly rise with time, especially after midnight.
Winds remain light and steady from the southwest, and some patchy fog is possible.
Chinese developers would welcome that, as patchy access to GitHub is a regular complaint.
Some execution was patchy, but you could see a strict plan everywhere; conscientiousness shone.
A woman in a red dress, who spoke patchy English, gave me a massage.
But coverage is patchy, and in some countries the majority of children are not vaccinated.
When I learned about the tape two days later, I had a patchy internet connection.
Americans have a patchy understanding of digital security, according to a new survey by Pew.
For a couple of days, the application seemed patchy across the country, fueling those fears.
Most technical instruction occurs in further-education colleges, where the quality of teaching is patchy.
Yet, there's no formal credit scoring system and existing loan coverage is patchy at best.
Manufacturing association EEF urged him to take measures that will boost Britain's patchy investment performance.
Unfortunately, he turned my hair dark gray and patchy—aging me by about 30 years.
Cryptocurrencies are subject to patchy rules across the world, with the technology remaining mostly unregulated.
There are no phones or TVs and both cell and Wi-Fi coverage are patchy.
The result is sex education that's patchy at best and just plain wrong at worst.
We sit down in a patchy couch, next to a stereo blasting Cambodian house music.
Patchy application erodes the efficacy of anti-discrimination law, but that apparently doesn't trouble DeVos.
Over the last couple of years, the company's security credentials have been patchy at best.
Tate Modern's original permanent exhibition was sniffed at for its patchy content and occasional holes.
Official data is patchy but what figures there are indicate the problem is getting worse.
Prepare for patchy fog during your morning commute, and possible showers during your return home.
But coverage is patchy, and, in some countries, a majority of children are not vaccinated.
"Wow, it's bleak," Grant said, standing in the courtyard, which was covered in patchy grass.
She circled their arrested forms, admiring rotted clothing, patchy and lusterless skin, sincere, open enjoyment.
The rest of the world is "a very, very patchy picture indeed," Mr. Atkinson said.
E-banking in rural areas—where internet access is patchy—is out of the question.
I've got such patchy music education I have to just obsess on what I know.
But away from the orchestrated urgency of the auctions, sales of older art remain patchy.
He added that compliance with the government's advice to stay at home has been patchy.
The data on whether women may be more likely to suffer from echoism is patchy.
Those on the left see it as a flimsy and patchy safety-net that needs expanding.
Communications in the Arctic are extremely challenging—cellphone reception is patchy, and there are no roads.
Law enforcement is often left to NGOs with patchy co-operation from the country's Forestry Administration.
But the data produced by today's machines still only produce incomplete, patchy, and glitch-riddled genomes.
Keeping the developer away from the roots also ensures you won't end up with patchy lace.
In some craters, the ice is patchy because it's been hit by other debris over time.
Weakened by casualties and by leadership that is, at best, patchy, some units suffer poor morale.
Rough, patchy and pixelated—almost Lego-y in its botched struggle to fill in the holes.
The exemption of secondary forests and patchy law enforcement, have hindered the moratorium's progress, they say.
They have a patchy record when it comes to upholding lofty principles in their own judgments.
Its adherence to the West African bloc ECOWAS' common external tariff regime has also been patchy.
You can edit the Somnox robot's programming in the companion app, but Bluetooth is pretty patchy.
Investment in tropical diseases has been patchy over the years due to the uncertain commercial prospects.
Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but its safety record is patchy.
Matte shadows can be patchy and difficult to apply, but these are literally smooth as butter.
I gravitate toward liners when I'm wearing dramatic lip colors to prevent them from looking patchy.
But Mr. Alagna's rough, patchy singing had you fearing for the current state of his voice.
One couple, Kefas Iliya and Ruth Joseph, sprawled out on the patchy lawn studying for exams.
An M.R.I. of his brain showed patchy white clouds among the normal gray swirls of brain.
Not only because it is terrible — thin, patchy and asymmetrical — but also because it is inexplicable.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 1.3% but regional performances were patchy.
By the later 1990s, however, his performances could be erratic — sometimes dramatically unfocused, sometimes vocally patchy.
They relied on a patchy bus service that could take an hour to reach the facility.
The white parts of the coral are bleached and the patchy brown bits have recently died.
Museums and the art market tried to review works that came to market with patchy histories.
Small buyouts are less economically efficient than larger ones and may result in patchy property removal.
Because the draft is no longer in place, its relevance is minimal, and compliance is patchy.
By the late-1980s critics were noting that Mr. Mazura's voice had become rough and patchy.
Statistics on bitcoin and crypto-currencies are patchy because their trading is unregulated in most countries.
The country's second-deadliest air disaster since 1997 has renewed concern about Indonesia's patchy aviation safety record.
Beard maintenance and grooming is also key, particularly if you struggle with patchy or uneven facial hair.
Rumours swirled that patchy internet connections sometimes left the registration computers unable to check the Eurodac database.
Voters complain about run-down schools, slow improvements to the autobahn network and patchy rural internet connections.
However, Fitbit's track record with smart watches is more patchy, despite acquiring smartwatch manufacturer Pebble in 2016.
Many areas of Afghan society remain male dominated, and changes taking place are often slow and patchy.
One challenge will be keeping the vaccine cold in a region with poor infrastructure and patchy electricity.
"I feel this is the end," Reem, a mother of two children, said via patchy internet connection.
Indonesia is seen as a somewhat odd member of OPEC and has had a patchy membership history.
Gone are the days where getting a safe tan meant risking telltale streaky limbs and patchy hands.
Diversification is not new to the oil and gas business and has a patchy record at best.
North Korea's tests of ICBM-type rockets have a patchy record—despite its claims to the contrary.
Syria watchers say a patchy ceasefire in place now - brokered by Russia and Turkey - could be consolidated.
Bookings at Ben Abeba are tricky to take, since the internet and mobile-phone service are patchy.
The Internet was patchy, and when Hundeyin pulled up a photograph on his laptop it loaded slowly.
There really hasn't been a comparable public data set like this before; everything else is seriously patchy.
He characterized Monday night's patchy bidding as "a more sophisticated market" in the post-sale news conference.
But if you use too much product or don't blend completely, you could end up looking patchy.
The girl every time has been in tears, her careful eye makeup obliterated, face patchy with red.
She was a capable families minister and has pushed to modernise Germany's armed forces (with patchy results).
Grocery stores were serving customers, and buses moved slowly on patchy, winding roads along the hilly terrain.
Poke around the patchy soccer fields and working theater, and wonder what year it is after all.
Phone reception is patchy, the last retail bank closed in 2015, and the gas station is shuttered.
Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets but its safety record has been patchy.
Yet even the dream casts that only Munich can turn out produced some patchy, prompter-dependent singing.
There were some patchy moments, when his sound turned leathery, or a sustained high note seemed tight.
Although they had played only 2403 games, their patchy start had left them in need of introspection.
Still, today's second act offers a pleasant surprise: Patchy sun and a high of 28 this afternoon.
Starting around 2010, Vodafone lost millions of Australian customers thanks to patchy coverage and call drop outs.
Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but its safety record has been patchy.
But no matter how confident the Brexiteers might be, their grip on reality remains patchy at best.
Electricity had been patchy since the Taliban blew up a cable that fed power to the city.
Over 76% Indians access the Internet on their mobiles, but are plagued by patchy and slow connections.
Rampant gang violence, patchy economic growth and a slew of corruption scandals have battered the PRI's standing.
Government response has been strong and there is change, but policies and practices remain patchy at best.
Unfortunately, I found that the lipstick began to look patchy after only an hour or two of wear.
Evidence suggested patchy adherence to the strike, and its impact on the economy has been difficult to calculate.
Sales of cheap smartphones have boomed in recent years, but internet networks remain patchy, especially in rural India.
Jay warms to the goats, eventually picking up a spirited, patchy one and holding it like a baby.
Historically, forests like these burned with low intensity every decade or so, keeping them patchy and fairly sparse.
GC: Yes some of the ISM data did indicate it was patchy in terms of that investment story.
The final look: A patchy half-blond, half-pink style that we'll probably see on Instagram next year.
Most universities rely on alumni surveys to find out how much their graduates earn, so data are patchy.
Information is patchy on where in the organigram debts sit (Bolloré says all the holding companies contain cash).
Enforcement is patchy: police, who are allowed to ride motorbikes, turn a blind eye in exchange for kickbacks.
Power is still patchy on the island, food shortages have been reported and many towns remain cut off.
The money, which often flows directly into treasuries with a patchy governance record, could be misspent (or stolen).
Yet most are patchy, so users have to supplement them with out-of-pocket payments or private insurance.
Most local manufacturers, burdened with patchy power and costly credit, cannot produce clothes cheaply enough for domestic consumers.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago, has a patchy transportation safety record, with frequent ferry accidents often caused by overcrowding.
In fact, the disease could already be there or elsewhere: experts worry that monitoring and reporting are patchy.
The powder formula is buttery to the touch and never looks dry, chalky, or patchy on our skin.
Kevin Hart may only be a patchy footballer at best, but you can't deny the man's got style.
The 44 participating countries (now 85) agreed on a set of reforms last year, but implementation is patchy.
Tax enforcement in China is patchy, and smaller businesses often understate earnings to save on their tax bills.
Ad-free, with no in-app purchases, this amazing app even works when your Wi-Fi is patchy.
But as a result of overlapping remits, vested interests and patchy data, the plunder continues apace (see article).
Concrete is patchy and there are spots where the steel bridge deck is all that you're driving on.
Candidates' statements jumped around like frenetic Mexican jumping beans with patchy policy content and no real sequential progression.
The new habitats blend with existing ones, from mature cottonwood forests to grasslands, to create a patchy mosaic.
"Patchy and uneven implementation of environmental rules helps no one," Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella said in a statement.
"Patchy disclosure is a fundamental problem," says Shivaram Rajgopal, the vice dean for research at Columbia Business School.
But with regulation still patchy, the risk of exposure to tainted coins has kept most big investors away.
In my experience, the lighter colors barely showed up on my arms while the darker colors looked patchy.
But a third tranche has been delayed since last October due to political upheaval and patchy reform progress.
Patchy fog and the occasional cool drizzle will linger through your morning commute, which will still be mild.
"We text about music, and life, all day long," Mikey says today, across a patchy transatlantic phone line.
Local joints are left to advertise with concrete bald spots, patchy from where brackets were hastily torn down.
It was a patchy performance: Williams made 21 unforced errors and only 21 percent of her first serves.
In 2015, the economy expanded 2.8 percent, up from 0.8 percent in 2014 but its recovery remains patchy.
I Googled "patchy beard solutions" and was overwhelmed by the talk of facial-hair transplants, Biotin, Minoxidil, makeup.
But recently there's been some patchy earnings reports and a strong euro is likely to further impact profits.
There's no smudging and the fade-down is elegant — no patchy color, no weird ring around your lips.
The current clinical trial system sets patients up for failure and the problem creates disparity and patchy results.
Ferraris and Maseratis have arrived, their owners seemingly oblivious to poor housing, overcrowded buses and patchy health care.
But what these sources were, when it happened, and how patchy or homogeneous the process was are all debated.
On Friday he was wearing an orange patchy suit and a big orange hat with a flower on it.
More importantly, the app is made to weather patchy data coverage, so it'll have some caching to work offline.
But despite the flurry, the performance of stocks has been patchy as U.S.-China trade tensions have roiled markets.
The results offer investors a sign that the retailer's turnaround efforts are paying off after years of patchy sales.
They're right to worry, as poor infrastructure investment, patchy oversight, and cost-cutting are rampant in communities across America.
Motorola's got a rather patchy history with timely software releases — both on the software and security end of things.
Statistics are patchy, especially in places where many abortions are done in private clinics or the procedure is illegal.
The country's infrastructure is patchy, the health service is at breaking point and jobs are plentiful but low-paying.
Sometimes, no matter how well you blend out your bronzer, you might still find it looking patchy or uneven.
Data are patchy, but police chases in America appear far more likely to kill somebody than those in Britain.
Developing countries slowly followed during the 2020s, though in many enforcement of the new rules was patchy at best.
That's pertinent given China's patchy history of legal compliance, which has seen luxury goods and even baby formula counterfeited.
Despite the hype, results have been patchy with the economy contracting 1.4 percent in the last quarter of 2015.
Europe and the Americas were too expensive, India was too complex and intellectual-property rights in China too patchy.
Data are patchy, but state statistics suggest that many victims of opioid poisoning have legitimate prescriptions for chronic pain.
One of the biggest challenges on this whole issue around migrants and refugees is the patchy nature of data.
Its main cargo was a satellite that would eventually help replace a patchy ground-based network for tracking spacecraft.
Briton Johanna Konta's patchy form continued as she fell 7-5 6-4 to last year's finalist Ashleigh Barty.
Brexit is largely seen as the villain in patchy U.K. growth as it has shaken business and consumer confidence.
Some asset managers already do their own stress-testing of individual funds, but this is patchy across the sector.
He white-knuckled his way through opiate withdrawal with only a patchy satellite internet connection to salve the pain.
And just like that, I knew there was more to Bieber than his patchy facial hair, or animal mishaps.
She's soft spoken, but never lacking eloquence even through areas of patchy cell service and an always-altered schedule.
He stank, and he was certain that the patchy beard he'd grown on the trip made him look menacing.
Although implementation was patchy, doctors reported a handful of unusual pneumonia infections, galvanizing investigators to track down the cause.
We had patchy luck with the hammer, preferring to search by simply trying to spot fossils on the beach.
So as it shrank yet more, to a patchy snowfield and a crater lake, there was no general outcry.
News from Ghazni remains patchy and incomplete, with communications hit after fighting destroyed most of the city's telecoms masts.
Still, economic data has been patchy since the bank on May 30 signaled more rate hikes were in store.
"All the words come from the heart," Fatemah said in a video call, patchy because of the poor internet connection.
But the patchy script and Saravanan's half-hearted treatment of it keep this game from ending with a high score.
The figure should be just $384bn, according to Mr Shorrocks (although the data are too patchy to allow much precision).
So we're looking at a patchy strategy that cannot work because it denies that force needs to play a role.
Since the demise of the old system, health-insurance coverage has been patchy and in rural areas mostly non-existent.
Her scratched, patchy paint surfaces make her subjects engaging as forms, evoking a gritty realism within a kind of timelessness.
The strong results came as a relief that Under Armour's turnaround efforts were paying off after years of patchy sales.
But Brussels has also noted Romania's parliament has a patchy record of approving prosecutor requests to investigate or detain lawmakers.
In the meantime, the patchy nature of anti-extremist bans raises real questions about companies' commitment to more aggressive enforcement.
This season has been disappointing, however, and his form on claycourts coming in to Paris has been, at best, patchy.
He has long, stringy blonde hair, a patchy beard, and thick glasses that give his eyes a distorted, curious quality.
I'll be honest: Right after we performed Jamsu, my makeup looked horrible (read: dry, patchy, and velvety to the touch).
Proponents tout camel milk's high Vitamin C and low saturated fat content, although much of the research is still patchy.
In locations where the GPS signal is patchy, they ask the community exactly where to find the women, he added.
They left behind lavish tombs, pottery and statues but tantalizingly few written documents and patchy evidence of their daily lives.
While an important step towards re-integrating Iran into the global financial system, the outcome has appeared patchy so far.
But I had docked a point because the room didn't contain a comfy chair and the Wi-Fi was patchy.
Pulling a baseball cap over my patchy scalp, I went out to forage for food that wouldn't make me gag.
Yet even with these patchy data it is clear that the growth in missionaries is coming from non-Western countries.
Murray's form has been patchy during a 2017 season that has been disrupted by shingles, an elbow injury and influenza.
But Washington and the IMF have become increasingly impatient with the Ukrainian government's patchy performance, especially in tackling endemic corruption.
Fruiting trees are a patchy and unpredictable resource, and parrots often fly many miles a day in quest of food.
But the vast charging network needed to sustain their vision is patchy, and it's not clear who'll pay for it.
In remote, insecure lands, with poor roads and patchy mobile phone networks, there are no obvious alternative ways of life.
At one point, she unconsciously lapsed into her native Kannada from her patchy Telugu, the language spoken at the clinic.
Never apply liquid or paste wax over a polyurethane-sealed wood floor; the finish can look patchy or turn milky.
Gay dads and their "woke genius" daughter face the limitations of life in a patchy new play by Jeff Augustin.
Though there were moments of patchy tone and shaky pitch in her singing, the radiance of her voice came through.
The $10 million-and-above range, on the other hand, is "slow [and] patchy at best," according to Knight Frank.
For much of the evening, the buildup for each trick is too lengthy, the commitment to personal revelation too patchy.
But first we've got some areas of fog and patchy drizzle this morning, with temperatures starting out in the 40s.
The eggs had been beaten loosely, so flecks of white still showed, and hustled from the pan when patchy bronze.
But many Republicans continue to see welfare as a poverty trap wrought from overreliance on the safety net, however patchy.
A patchy bit of mold from the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Fleming was auctioned in London last week for $14,617.
They sweep onto the skin easily and seem to melt into my face, never looking patchy, powdery, dry, or overly sparkly.
Long distances and patchy infrastructure mean that the cost of shipping local handicraft to the outside world can double the price.
Their inky-blue forms resembled far-away constellations or bright moons seen against the gaseous firmaments of patchy-blue night skies.
Though some exit polls put Modi on course for a second term, pollsters have a patchy history predicting precise seat tallies.
Numerous studies have shown that life in areas with patchy collection increases the risk of diseases as well as neurological conditions.
As Hiram updated his dad on his historical research, Fred would try to fill in holes with his patchy childhood memories.
Andrew, for example, is growing almost despite himself, sporting a patchy mustache while furtively masturbating to fantasies of his father's assistant.
China has pledged to improve safety in factories, though explosions and other incidents are common due to patchy enforcement of rules.
Market volatility has never been lower, bond yields haven't risen as much as expected and returns have been patchy, at best.
Under current equivalence rules, access is patchy and can be cut off by the EU within 30 days in some cases.
Where psychiatrists are too few, patchy supervision of new trainees can fail to weed out problems that lead to poor quality.
Josie the Chinese Crested Photo: Getty Josie's patchy, wiry hair ensures that the petting experience would be a bit off-putting.
As a turnkey solution for patchy internet, the Relay could be an easy sell to customers who already trust their Roku.
That dovetails with GSK's other work in cancer, a field where it has had a patchy track record in the past.
"Converting plans into action and delivery on the ground remains patchy," the task force said in a report published last month.
People close to the IPOs said regulatory scrutiny and a patchy performance by Hong Kong offerings this year were additional concerns.
Given the patchy-at-best history of Americans buying teams in Europe, you'd think that Piazza is out of his element.
The pace of life might be way slower, the Internet might be patchy, there might not be a Starbucks for miles.
It was frizzy and patchy from malnutrition, and atop my 95-pound frame, the person in the mirror was a stranger.
The authors also note that some local doctors contest the patchy records on birth defects provided by Hawaii's Department of Health.
But as drones become cheaper, they could help countries with patchy infrastructure and tricky terrain shift light, valuable goods more quickly.
But the reform's rollout across all of Mexico's states, which is scheduled to end this year, has so far been patchy.
" So, the star grew her hair back out, but "it was patchy in color and I felt like dying it brown.
There's not much evidence that its patchy pitch can work: cut out middle-men, cut out unions, automate building materials production, ???
Government regulators must take action against the Pemex employees who were responsible for the patchy attendance records, according to the audit.
The couple's decision to claim asylum is likely to draw further attention to Russia's patchy record on protecting freedom of speech.
While detailed information is available for many developed countries, data is patchy or non-existent for much of the developing world.
Indiana's patchy rules also made it difficult to know precisely what Adams owned when he was overseeing state public health operations.
Klotz's defense was patchy, tenuous, and rooted largely in speculation, but it could be enough to withstand the government's meagre evidence.
" To me, the whole image looked patchy and hazy—a blur of pixels—but he had obviously seen something unusual. "Hazy?
The Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer is a perfect hybrid that adds a warm-toned glow with a natural, non-patchy finish.
Evidence suggested patchy adherence to last month's strike, and its impact on one of Africa's largest economies was difficult to calculate.
Such tales of leaky classrooms and potholed roads, as well as patchy internet, are the flip side of today's wealthy, booming Germany.
Germany's existing 22018G networks are notoriously patchy, leading the government to pile pressure on the industry to plug holes in their coverage.
He will remember their selfless act for the rest of his life, but that feeling will fade and grow patchy with time.
Industry sources estimate as many as 100 of the 325 orders are at risk owing to the patchy finances of early customers.
When I'm with Gregory and she's with... god, who knows, some kind of four-foot-eleven Dungeon Master with a patchy beard?
Many emerging markets right now rely on censor data which can be patchy and up to seven years old in some cases.
The ultra-hydrating ingredients take time to sink in and can cause bronzer or highlighter to look patchy if you're not patient.
The blossoming industry has patchy government regulation, with variations by state in the US. The differences help contribute to the industry's secrecy.
Existing regional control instruments, such as the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, have a patchy record of blocking controversial sales.
His first years were promising but patchy, and to say this has been a breakout season for Salah is a massive understatement.
Mr Sanders had no trouble brushing off his patchy history on gun control because his progressive bona fides were not in doubt.
"We've seen some improvement lately but it remains patchy, and not enough to offset the challenging start to the year," he said.
Patchy rains have led to some anxious sky-watching, even as floods in eastern and northeastern India have displaced and killed people.
Up to 260,2299.99 sq ft of Wi-Fi coverage means no more patchy coverage kitchen and buffer-free Netflix in every room.
But chalky, glitter highlighters can sometimes have the opposite effect — bringing attention to fine lines and making skin look patchy and dull.
Riders have voted with their smartphones; many have little sympathy for "taxi mafias" that long kept prices high and delivered patchy service.
We've been estranged for more than four years now, and my contact with the rest of the family is patchy at best.
And many RFMOs say they want to care for marine ecosystems, even if their translation of that intention into action is patchy.
Her parenting is patchy, but she loves Moonee, and, like most of the folks in the film, they just about get by.
The air quality is still officially so bad that it's unsafe to be outside in a large, patchy network of area codes.
In places where the disease is common and treatment is patchy, removing foreskins can be a cost-effective way to fight it.
Rainfall has overall been good this summer season though farmers say it has been patchy in western parts of the maize belt.
"We've seen some improvement lately but it remains patchy, and not enough to offset the challenging start to the year," Ermotti said.
But the FSB cautioned that data is still patchy at times in a rapidly developing market that can be fragmented and opaque.
Not only did they apply patchy, but I feel as though they'd only work for Instagram-style makeup looks — not everyday wear.
And the streak of singles he's released from this patchy album would impress me coming even from Justin Timberlake, Jason Derulo, anybody.
The usual word to describe beards like mine at this point would be "patchy," but that implies there are patches with hair.
Like Porto Alegre's Central prison, the vast majority of Brazil's jails are run by financially stretched state governments, often with patchy results.
However data on the number of victims of digital sex abuse is patchy and barely existent in some parts of the world.
Attendance was patchy, though this was in part because Mr. Walker accommodatingly put on several mini-shows to accommodate the packed schedule.
Hearings will likely be patchy due to fewer staff and a lack of experience in complex cases, Judge Miguel Angel Galvez said.
It feels like it has looked like this since this morning except now it is, like, super dry and patchy down here.
Though the tree may look as if it suffers from a bad sunburn, the patchy, peeling bark actually works in its favor.
Patchy implementation of the reform drive has raised questions about Ukraine's ability to modernize after a pro-European uprising in 2013-2014.
Against us was a computer that was overheating in the scorching Florida sun (and no shade), and a patchy satellite phone signal.
Yet a touch of something delusional creeps into Callas's repetitions of "liberi" ("free"), a vocally patchy quality that betrays her inner doubts.
In part because the scientific portrait of the brain remains so patchy, it has long been embellished with numerous myths and misconceptions.
Only nine of 29 states have enshrined the Supreme Court's ruling in local laws, and even when they have, implementation has been patchy.
What It Looks Like: Hives or patchy red marks on the skin that may be raised or flat, or in patches or lacerations.
"If your tan has developed a bit patchy and needs a quick fix, grab a product made with glycolic acid," advises Von Hep.
Energy supplies remained patchy in the sweltering western state of Zulia, where anger after nearly a week without power overflowed into street violence.
Global data on the economic impact of thunderstorms is patchy, but a 2008 assessment by the National Lightning Safety Institute in Louisville, Colo.
India's drug regulators have made intermittent efforts over the years to shut down this avenue, but enforcement has been patchy and success limited.
Her education was patchy even before that, due to the dangers posed by the civil war that erupted when she was a toddler.
Though disclosure is patchy and banks define compliance and related functions in varying ways, they seem to have backed up talk with action.
Botanists have long wondered, however, how the details change when resources become patchy, and thus scarce in some places and abundant in others.
Its chief executive has praised the aircraft's ability to pull in passengers to its Dubai hub and lamented patchy interest from other airlines.
For quite some time, scientists had a working theory of why certain piebald (patchy black-and-white) mammals look the way they do.
If the planet's patchy white veil of clouds descended to the ground, it would make a watery sheen no thicker than a hair.
The police soon went to Gregory's house to arrest Barriss, a tall and disconcertingly gaunt man with patchy facial hair and melancholy eyes.
Image: Borths & Stevens, 2019Its environment likely consisted of a patchy forest habitat with clumps of trees and some open spaces between, explained Borths.
Polling in New Hampshire puts him in eighth place behind Carly Fiorina, a businesswoman with a patchy record and hypertense style of oratory.
BRCK CEO Erik Hersman says the device has the potential to help millions facing the daily frustrations of power cuts and patchy internet.
The bigger issue, however, is that not one of the patchy sequel's threads really holds together, even within the elastic boundaries of farce.
However, miscommunication is no longer just a failed attempt at understanding but a conspiracy of patchy hotspots, dwindling batteries, and expended data plans.
The band's second album, 2005's One Way Ticket To Hell… and Back, was a patchy affair that didn't sell nearly as well.
However, implementation has been patchy, as highlighted by NASA's real time satellite fire tracker that shows the locations of agricultural fires in India.
Afternoon highs should reach near 50 to the mid-50s, with a slight chance of a late-day shower or some patchy drizzle.
And while medical researchers have studied the effects of sound for decades, they've done so sporadically, leaving us with a very patchy understanding.
The chairs were arranged on top of Stone's patchy rug, "Untitled (in-reverse #1)," which, flipped, once had life in another gallery exhibition.
Mobile phone coverage is patchy, and the town floods when the river rises, leading residents to prop makeshift bridges between houses and stores.
A deal with Reliance would give it access to thousands of stores across the country, particularly in areas where internet access is patchy.
Consumers who have patchy credit histories may be turned away by lenders and therefore be forced to resort to high-cost payday lenders.
Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers bring a measure of glamour to a patchy two-hander about three sibling pairs and one downed airplane.
The new reading app will also be available offline, a step several tech companies have taken to deal with India's patchy mobile connectivity.
"The NZD continues to struggle with the patchy domestic scene and global trade uncertainties taking their toll," ANZ economists said in a note.
You could also experience other seemingly unrelated symptoms: swollen lymph glands, sore throat, patchy hair loss, headaches, weight loss, muscle aches, and fatigue.
The Saudi with knowledge of the campaign said the performance of the army had been patchy and varied greatly from one unit to another.
But in the east, which was liberated over five months ago, the authorities have been slow to resume services, and salary payments remain patchy.
Some banks suffered huge commodities losses during the financial crisis and performances since have been patchy, leading them to cut back on commodities operations.
Founded by comedian Beppe Grillo, it has become Italy's second-largest party according to recent polls, even though its organisational record is decidedly patchy.
The team has a patchy record in the Bundesliga and their last major trophy was when they won the German Cup back in 1988.
Progress is patchy, despite images of members of parliament feeding their babies in Australia and Canada going viral on social media in recent years.
Trump Inc's record of finishing projects and picking partners is patchy—a big development in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has stalled, for example.
With old assets in mature industries, a patchy record, disrupted management and controversies over conflicts of interest, Trump Inc's value could stagnate or fall.
And even if the AI's performance was more patchy in the wild than Google's demo suggested it's clearly the CEO's goal for the tech.
Below those emerald caps, the rainforest is patchy — trees have been felled by loggers and the land has been used as water buffalo pasture.
They offer better depth information than regular cameras, but produce patchy maps, with large sections often rendered invisible by objects blocking the laser's path.
Not all self-tanners are created equal and some can be patchy on the skin or make a cameo on all my white silk.
Check out how they turn what was once a bright disco-leaning tune into a freakish blend of patchy drums and distorted effects, below:
Connectivity is expensive in relation to incomes, and frequently patchy – websites, maps and especially videos can take minutes to load and often time out.
Once again, Saudi Arabia has made the deepest cuts to offset patchy compliance by other members, returning to its hated role of swing producer.
With less convenient road, rail and air connections it is just outside Montreal's economic orbit, while still-patchy broadband coverage also work against it.
Whitford says that access to treatment is "very patchy" due to a blockade of the Gaza Strip that was imposed by Israel in 2007.
It's a search conducted primarily by a patchy network of monitoring stations managed in a multinational collaboration, on islands and mountaintops around the world.
The phone line is answered quickly, but other treatment is patchy, says Elizabeth Ogott of the Kenya Alcohol Policy and Control Alliance, an NGO.
This film sails out on a high, before the he said this and he did that, and crucially, before the onslaught of patchy albums.
Indonesia has a patchy air safety record, with 12 accidents in 2016 in which 30 people killed, according to the Aviation Safety Network website.
Here's what else is happening: We're moving from foggy to fine: Patchy clouds should clear the way for sunshine as the day goes on.
European bourses were similarly patchy, with a 65.6753 percent rise in Polish shares offset by a 65.6743 percent fall in Russian dollar-denominated stocks.
A recent public report "pretty clearly documented that the protections are patchy, vary hugely and are nonexistent in some of the countries," Foster noted.
Of course, everyone on the plane wanted to find out if their family and friends were safe, but phone and internet service were patchy.
Ukraine's patchy efforts to root out endemic graft have helped derail a disbursement of $1.7 billion in new aid from the International Monetary Fund.
I knew only how to dream about boys like Peter, the unformed muscles under their skin, the patchy hair they tended along their jaws.
But one man who stood on that patchy turf on Friday has mostly defied the normal expectations brought on by age and natural deterioration.
A broken barrier — symptoms include inflammation and patchy, flaky skin — can eventually lead to other problems since it means the skin's defenses are compromised.
Cellphone connections are patchy across Venezuela, however, and people are reporting ever more network outages, which the government has blamed on right-wing saboteurs.
Avon, whose brands include Skin-So-Soft and the Outspoken by Fergie fragrance line, has had patchy success in retaining these employees in recent years.
"Without delay, we call on legislators to fix the patchy, inconsistent and often punitive rules that govern employee ownership," they said in the letter Wednesday.
Equivalence is patchy compared with current EU market access for Britain's biggest export sector because it excludes some major financial activities such as commercial lending.
Given the patchy data and the high number of unreported cases, some researchers say microcephaly statistics may provide a better indicator of the outbreak's severity.
Data are patchy, but in 2012-14 the number of temporary construction workers in oil-and-gas operations in Shetland probably rose by about 60%.
Mattie Burkert, the project's leader, says the data are patchy from 2000, when theatres reopened after a Puritan ban, to 25, when daily newspapers began.
The DEA's John Halpin cautioned the agency's data was "patchy," though, focused mostly on seizures from larger cases and lacking granularity in local drug markets.
Bosnia does not have a national tourism authority and data on land purchases is patchy in the Balkan country which has a fragmented government system.
"If your skin looks patchy and clumpy with makeup by afternoon, a drop of facial oil is a good idea – I like jojoba," she says.
Funding for the programme was also patchy, cobbled together from state and federal grants, which meant that Boston lost a clinician when a grant expired.
In a country that in recent decades has seen the biggest movement of people in history away from their ancestral homes, genealogical records are patchy.
Google has had a very patchy history when it comes to social media, and it's an area that the company still trying to get right.
The ANC can point to its (patchy) delivery of basic services and social grants, which it alleges would be threatened if it were voted out.
Enforcement has been patchy: of the UN's 193 members, only 77 have reported on their implementation of the previous round of sanctions, adopted in November.
"The interest to date for the shipping portfolio has been patchy and DZ has to make a call on what to do next," one said.
Bosnia does not have a national tourism authority and data on land purchases is patchy in the Balkan country which has a fragmented government system.
Regulators have already taken steps to cut the scale of borrowing, even if compliance has been patchy, and some brokerages no longer offer such loans.
Given a patchy track record in 29935-220, Fitch does not incorporate an oil-sharing agreement between the central government and the Kurdish Regional Government.
The overall picture is still one of reasonably steady if unspectacular growth, although some of the incoming numbers are starting to look a little patchy.
A mixture of savvy PR from the US government and patchy reporting from international media means that most of us don't even know it happened.
Enforcement is patchy: Jersey has jailed rogue formation agents, but the British Virgin Islands does no more than pull licences, and even then only rarely.
Uneven casting, patchy orchestral playing and a preposterous plot ultimately faded into irrelevance next to the glittering performance of Angela Meade in the title role.
She sang along to songs on the radio, songs patchy with blanked-out words that she made a point of mouthing but didn't say aloud.
Furthermore, state Medicaid cuts are occurring under an existing federal matching system while our nation is in a period of steady, if patchy, economic growth.
Nathan—who is also twenty-one, with a patchy beard—recognized Chapman from news stories about American volunteers fighting in Syria and asked for advice.
Chinese tourism numbers in Europe staged a patchy recovery last year as memories of the 2015 Islamist attacks in France and other European cities faded.
But since then, Ukraine's international supporters have become increasingly irked by what they see as Kiev's patchy progress in tackling corruption and modernising the economy.
A setting of the last text Beckett wrote, "What Is the Word" (2016) was more driving, dominated by stuttering, playful, patchy repetitions of the title.
He said angry citizens and police officers clashed in the low income borough of Iztapalapa, where patchy water supply has long been a major problem.
The sweet gum grows in a long list of states, thinning to a more patchy distribution as it spreads southward into Mexico and Central America.
Demand at Christie's 36-lot mixed owner sale of old masters that followed was also patchy, with a third of the lots failing to sell.
"I thought the first set I played well, second set was a little bit patchy at times, a bit nervous towards the end," he said.
But increasingly there is at least patchy cellphone coverage in even the more dangerous places, such as during the battle for Aleppo, Syria, last year.
Fausto Morra (Alessio Boni), a farmer near Turin, recovers five years after being involved in a car accident but finds that his memory remains patchy.
The continuing protests in Chile over inequality and patchy social services have left at least 26 dead and more than 13,000 police and civilians injured.
Today (Friday): Some patchy fog may take its time dissipating as skies stay fairly cloudy, preventing sunshine from heating us effectively and zapping fog quickly.
While many names have clawed back much of their recent losses, yields remain prohibitively high for some and appetite for the asset class remains patchy.
Comprehensive data on bitcoin used for payments is patchy, as trades with other currencies tend to be included along with its use for commercial payments.
To cater for patchy, unreliable connectivity, over more basic handsets, Google's design considerations for both software and hardware will prioritise low battery consumption and offline capability.
It has a "wide but very patchy" distribution across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, according to the IUCN, and is on rare occasion caught as bycatch.
Its arrival highlights the fact that behind the daily stories of violence, change is taking place in Afghanistan, even if it is often slow and patchy.
Here's the bottom line: Though high-quality evidence is a little patchy and hard to come by, sunscreen very probably helps reduce the risk of cancer.
India's monsoon, which accounts for nearly 70% of the country's annual rainfall, turned patchy in the first month of the season that began on June 1.
Once again it was a patchy display by England but victory over Slovenia at Wembley next month will mean they can begin booking hotels in Russia.
Even if foreign firms manage to hire savvy mainlanders, they are held back by having to report to faraway bosses with patchy knowledge of the market.
But Ukraine's patchy reform efforts led to repeated delays in its previous IMF program that ended up disbursing only $8.7 billion of a planned $17.5 billion.
But China's regional pilot carbon markets have seen prices come under pressure, due to over-allocation caused by worse than expected economic performance, and patchy liquidity.
The status quo of patchy state-by-state gun laws often doesn't prevent abusers from owning guns, clearing background checks, or buying or borrowing new ones.
Whereas local housing markets rose and fell together during the housing bubble and bust, the housing recovery which began in America in 2012 has been patchy.
Angel Olsen: My Woman (Jagjaguwar) Previously, this St. Louis pseudofolksinger specialized in the jagged fragment, with fuzzy guitar static and/or earnest solemnity hiding patchy songwriting.
While Ethio Telecom has consistently increased annual revenue, vast parts of the country - including the capital - still suffer from occasionally patchy mobile reception and internet service.
Yet they do illuminate the problem of a patchy vetting process and an impetuous chief executive who sometimes picks people simply because they look the part.
However, the record is patchy in the four sectors that Tuwaijri had highlighted as priorities for this year: grain silos, sports, electricity generation and water provision.
But OPEC as a whole has a patchy record of complying with its agreements, and previous non-OPEC pledges to curb output have proved largely token.
It's small, patchy, and irregular, but in many cases it's just enough to prevent the powerful solar wind from marring its pretty surface—think lunar sunscreen!
Truecaller said that its voice calls rely on data services — mobile data and Wi-Fi — and claimed that they can work swiftly even on patchy network.
"(The occurrence) is much more patchy and isolated than previously," says Victoria MacPhail, a PhD student at York University and the lead author on the study.
I was at Dream Roll, an annual women's motorcycle retreat, in La Pine, Oregon, where the air was nippy and the cell phone service was patchy.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks hair follicles, resulting in patchy or complete hair loss on the scalp and body.
But the United States has a patchy record of honouring its commitments to the predecessors to the Paris agreement: the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord.
This business is the reason why its parent company was able to report its third consecutive record quarterly profit in July, after years of patchy results.
A services directive in 2006 cut red tape and made it easier for firms to establish operations abroad, but its scope was limited and implementation patchy.
And yet, maybe precisely because of that prolixity (this seemingly slender story runs to 400-plus pages), this is still a perplexingly patchy piece of work.
Although there exists very little of the sort of documentation you would need to write a traditional biography, patchy records of Shakespeare's business dealings do survive.
But Foster said the advances remained patchy because some countries lacked political commitment as well as the policies and regulations needed to foster off-grid provision.
But what about the many other lines of business and data gathering that are even less touched by our patchy system of regulating privacy and security?
Limited and patchy requirements about disclosure, lobbying, and political spending make it hard to pinpoint the influence of major fossil fuel companies in a political context.
Under the gag rule, regular access to contraceptives becomes patchy, and the number of unwanted pregnancies increases, leading to more unsafe abortions and more women dying.
Although Switzerland has rated consistently well in metrics such as economic stability and its citizens' happiness, its record on gender parity has historically been more patchy.
However, its availability is patchy worldwide, with some countries not yet approving the drug and others not making it available for free through national health services.
However, its availability is patchy worldwide, with some countries not yet approving the drug and others not making it available for free through national health services.
Patients often had symptoms that were a signature of this outbreak: weeping genital warts, called condylomata lata; patchy hair loss; and mucosal oozes inside the mouth.
For example, in the U.K., CNBC found that networks were patchy, offering decent speeds in some parts of London but reverting to 4G data in others.
"The emergence of two more-focused, separate businesses should be welcome at a time when operational performance continues to be patchy," they wrote in a note.
The patchy record comes at a particularly sensitive time for SoftBank the company is in the midst of raising a second $100 billion-plus Vision Fund.
El Sharara lies in Libya's remote southwestern desert where state authority is weak, chaos rampant and phone connections patchy, making it difficult to get reliable information.
Progress on eliminating the power of vested interests has been patchy, causing the IMF to withhold a $1.7 billion loan tranche for the past 10 months.
Patchy availability and higher pricing are likely to reduce provincial tax revenues in the early years of legalization, Moody's Investors Service said in a recent report.
On view are 145 works of photography, video, painting, sculpture, and installation that construct a patchy survey of contemporary portraiture and the mechanics of its staging.
With a record of 26-11, Boston, Mass, native Lauzon has carved out a large fanbase for himself despite a patchy 13-8 record in the UFC.
To match up with the patchy redactions of page D-5, we got this classic black-and-white number from Janelle Monaé at the premiere of Creed.
This isn't so important on the desktop, when you're likely to be on wifi all the time, but it helps while traveling and on patchy wireless networks.
International data are patchy, but they suggest that since the end of apartheid South Africa went from being the world's third-most-murderous country to the seventh.
Crowdfunding platforms have stepped in to fill a patchy social safety net, but they're still private businesses with their own goals, not simply a conduit for charity.
Laura Spinney traces its long shadow over human history; records are patchy and uncertain, but Hippocrates's "Cough of Perinthus" in 412BC may be its first written description.
Ravi Kant of Delhi-based anti-trafficking charity Shakti Vahini said there had been a "visible change" in the way courts handled cases, though progress was patchy.
Citi analysts described Amazon's initial Australian offering as "patchy", adding in a note to clients: "We expect Amazon will not be disruptive to Australian retailers this Christmas".
Still, the patchy evidence of draining storage has fallen far short of what investors expected after OPEC and non-OPEC nations agreed on production cuts last November.
This is a complaint many first-timers notice if they don't keep up with them — as the extensions fall out, your fluttery fringe tends to look patchy.
But Greybull's record since it launched in April 22017 has been patchy, with four of the 22015 companies it bought later declared insolvent or placed into administration.
In an analysis of patchy police records from 2014-15, about 60% of child-sex offenders were white and 12% were Asian (20% were of unknown ethnicity).
The 30-year-old woman claimed that her memory of the incident was patchy due to the fact that she had "blacked out" and had been drugged.
I like Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's concept of the "patchy Anthropocene," with a special relationship to capital "M" Man, rather than to all humans in the universal sense.
And in a bid to deal with the long-term effects of patchy rainfall, the southwestern city of Bulawayo is proposing technological interventions to cut water consumption.
But the results have been patchy, because the promised supply of American weapons to Anbari Sunni tribes has been blocked by the predominantly Shia government in Baghdad.
GPower is particularly suited for rural India, where mobile connectivity is patchy and electricity supply is irregular, said Sanjay Podder, managing director at Accenture Labs in Bengaluru.
Known for buying up distressed assets on the cheap, its record has been patchy, with four of the 10 companies it bought since 2010 placed into administration.
Kofi Annan, a shrewd and charming Ghanaian who held the post in 1997-2006, is seen as next best, despite patchy success in the world's trouble spots.
Investors are particularly keen for firms to study pictures that yield rare data on, say, steel production in China or Russia, where official data can be patchy.
The color fades from the inside of your lips out to the edges, creating this weird, patchy, lipliner tattoo effect that you'll want to wipe off immediately.
For the second consecutive match, late pressure rescued a patchy France side that is struggling to live up to its pretournament billing as one of the favorites.
He began this year strongly, reaching the semi-finals in Doha and the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, but since then his form has been patchy.
But modernization has not been deep enough for the young, who keep track of the fast-changing outside world through mobile phones, patchy Internet and foreign visitors.
Mike Bloomberg tried to recover from his patchy debate debut last week, fielding more awkward questions about his treatment of women and his use of nondisclosure agreements.
Another resident of the complex, Mark Anthony, filmed a cellphone video that showed a body in an area of patchy grass near the foot of the building.
"I had been doing my color with some other guy, and it was patchy and splotchy," Ms. Mortimer said the other afternoon while in Mr. White's chair.
Today (Tuesday): After patchy early-morning fog, skies alternate during the day between partly cloudy and partly sunny as temperatures climb toward highs of 240 to 250.
"The resource is patchy and not homogenous," he says, adding that the future of the mining will depend on their understanding of the seabed and technological advances.
Current regulatory arrangements for the sector are patchy, which the regulator said meant it had been unable to discipline trustees or custodians with deficiencies in their systems.
Compare that with Italy, where high-speed broadband infrastructure is only now being rolled out, and fast mobile connection outside big cities like Rome is patchy at best.
Access to Twitch, which lets users watch and broadcast games, was shut off in China on Thursday, after days of users complaining about patchy connections to the service.
It always seems to end on a field of rolling wheat or patchy grass; some useless no-man's-land with no cover and no reason to be there.
Recording the entire saga on her Instagram Story, Stephanie Plucknette couldn't hide her emotion as she first encountered the sight of her children and their patchy new 'dos.
The evidence that gig workers face a pay penalty compared with conventional employees is patchy; many say they value the extra autonomy they enjoy compared with salaried workers.
The microfiber, water-resistant gel formula is beloved for its ability to give a natural boost to patchy brows and stay in place through the sweatiest of situations.
" It's nauseatingly clear that he's hoping she says something like "Love and companionship from a patchy-haired pedophile," but instead she says, "At the moment, peace and quiet.
It has also just launched a "dial an Uber" feature in some cities with patchy network coverage that makes it easier to order a cab for someone else.
The legal mechanism allows countries from outside the EU to access the single market in limited circumstances but access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
While a patchy island landscape presents its own set of challenges for plants and animals, forest patches still, however, provide important ecoservices that wildlife depend upon for survival.
Britain has said equivalence does not cover all activities and lacks certainty, leaving the country facing patchy access to its biggest export market for financial services in future.
Current coverage is patchy and that, combined with delays in building out high-speed internet, has been criticized by business groups as a handicap in the digital era.
Mr. Best, who played Romeo in a patchy outdoor production at the Classical Theater of Harlem, is powerfully charming, an appealing mix of youthful braggadocio and sincere emotion.
Public data on credit default swap prices for individual banks is patchy to nonexistent, but Standard & Poor's provides a useful index for swaps on large European banks here.
He grows a patchy beard, boxes his things and moves away from home, and then, as the music swells and the spot moves towards its climax, he...uh….
Add to that list Rebekah Brockman, whose memorable and assured portrayal is one of the chief attractions of Austin Pendleton's rather patchy revival, at the Pearl Theater Company.
Compared to the others, I found Drag (bottom left) to look patchy when applied on its own, and Slayer (bottom right) seemed to bleed outside my lip lines. 
In reality, prioritizing cheerleading for a candidate over the slow but vital work of institution building, sustainable budgeting, and rigorous anti-corruption enforcement has led to patchy results.
The existing system is seen as unpredictable, patchy and prone to politicization and the EU is tightening access conditions in key activities for London like clearing euro contracts.
Such divergence in interpretation can deter investors and the progress to resolve that issue will likely be "slow and patchy" given the scale of the challenge, Fitch added.
A garrulous and slightly pudgy man who keeps his patchy gray hair pulled into a ponytail, Ford was also the last person known to have seen Haas alive.
Ultimately, developing vaccines is a question of priorities, as evidenced by a patchy pattern of protection against a range of mosquito-borne viruses over the past 80 years.
Kool operates out of a grim warehouse with flickering bulbs and patchy black paint, but Rinse has leather couches, its own record label, and corporate partners like Smirnoff.
In several other works, Mr. Litton isn't always quite right with tempo or as a propulsive accompanist to dancers, but here his contribution powerfully enriches a patchy show.
Its European form has been patchy — "not good enough," as Virgil van Dijk, the defender, said on Monday — but it has been almost flawless in the Premier League.
Indonesia's second-deadliest air disaster since 1997 has prompted renewed concern about its patchy safety record, and the government has said Lion Air will be regulated more closely.
There are patchy oral histories of it occurring in Australia up to 20 years ago as an act of triumph and camaraderie, at parties or after sporting wins.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra — which appeared at Carnegie Hall to patchy effect on Friday, led by the rising star Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla — has had a rough time lately.
Luckily, my morning routine is simple — moisturizer (generic Target brand), contacts, brush my teeth, brush my hair, and fill in the patchy blonde excuse I have for eyebrows.
She runs while daring the camera people to chase her, only to stumble onto a wet spot of patchy grass and give her pristine dress a dirty stripe.
Melanomas are often asymmetrical ("A"), their borders ("B") are uneven, their color ("C") can be patchy and variegated, and their diameter ("D") is usually greater than six millimetres.
Every longevity experimenter has talismanic photos or videos of two mice: one timid and shuffling, with patchy fur; the other sleek and vital, thrumming with the miracle elixir.
Not only are they the same uninspiring beige color as my skin and hair, they're also as thin and patchy as a 13-year-old boy's upper lip.
"The thing about fires is that they're creating this patchy mosaic of really diverse vegetation," said Rebecca Bliege Bird, an anthropologist also at Penn State and co-author.
Doctor Marianella Herrera, at the same university, said the combination of inadequate nutrition and patchy education would cost Venezuela dearly in the future, depriving it of skilled workers.
Large leveraged M&A loans have been patchy this year and totaled US$2500bn in the third quarter, down 23% from US$118.7bn during the same quarter in 2015.
While the latest U.S. employment figures beat expectations, economic data from the world's biggest economy has been patchy this year and has generally been outperformed by the euro zone.
They are ghouls — one with clown-like features, the others with patchy hair, dripping moles, savage grins, and face contorted into something like fascination and pleasure and committed intent.
Trade tensions and geopolitical developments have yet to weigh on deal-making sentiment across Southeast Asia — but the near-term outlook remains "patchy," according to a senior investment banker.
At this rate, domestic scrutiny of the government's negotiations with the EU will be patchy and, freshly Brexited, Britain will not face a serious choice at the 2020 election.
But just as the broad economic recovery has been patchy, the new hunger data reveal an unevenness among Americans who are barely able to put food on the table.
That means one thing: Once the star's personal makeup artists leaves their client at the limo's door, their faded lipstick and patchy under-eyes are in his team's hands.
Even these efforts have looked hopelessly flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal in the face of concerned attempts to use its tools to amplify disinformation in markets around the world.
Seems like a small thing, but it goes a ways toward keeping the front lighting more uniform across the board, versus the more patchy consistency found in earlier models.
This is a plodding, patchy film that takes much too long to get to the point, spending more than half of its 148-minute runtime in the build-up.
Half of the world's poor people are now thought to be African (though statistics are patchy for some very poor, dysfunctional countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo).
His efforts to boost Democrats in mid-term elections in 2010 and 2014 had little effect, and his record on picking winners in off-year races is also patchy.
India's monsoon rains were 20% below average in the week ending on Wednesday, with summer showers having turned patchy over the central, western and southern parts of the country.
In September last year "patchy" check-in systems at Heathrow and Gatwick caused significant flight delays and forced travelers on several continents to queue for hours at a time.
While Tom Kenny is best known for doing the voice of Spongebob ... He also plays the crusty character Patchy the Pirate on the long running animation masterpiece 'Spongebob Squarepants.
She is not much liked in the party, her ministerial record is patchy and, unlike with Mrs May, civil servants who have worked for her have not been impressed.
When she was done, I leaned over to admire her handiwork: a patchy approximation of a heart, fashioned out of eight or nine dots, seared into my left ankle.
The EU has said that Britain's financial sector faces the same patchy and unpredictable system of market access as other non-EU countries like the United States and Japan.
But economists say patchy growth and worries about a global slowdown could eventually force the government to reverse its official position and avoid placing an extra burden on households.
Taken too far, wrongly-selected KPIs can cause organizations to suffer profoundly, such as with Uber's patchy quality standards for driver recruitment leading to innumerable controversies around customer experience.
As for the Frieze Week auctions themselves, such was the scale of material on offer, and of some of the pre-sale estimates, that demand proved to be patchy.
The fact that there has been so much blood shed and money spent in those countries, with only patchy progress to show for it, weighs heavy on Americans' minds.
The legal mechanism allows countries from outside the EU to access the single market in limited circumstances although that access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
Regulators say the market for interbank lending is too patchy to base a widely-used benchmark on and want Sonia to replace sterling Libor by the end of 2021.
Because it only worked on 2G networks, service was patchy; without texting, the Light Phone forced people to make calls, a tough sell in our era of phone anxiety.
Historical economic records are patchy, but Bill Byrd of the United States Institute of Peace, a think-tank, describes a "lost quarter-century of development" after the Soviet invasion.
But work conditions and rewards remain patchy at best, renewing demands for weekly days off, maternity benefits and a pension, as well as wages that keep pace with inflation.
Its current version has sparked questions over how firms were vetted, a lack of up-to-date disclosures about their owners and financing, and patchy accounting of vendor payments.
In theory, the internet should age as a perfect archive; in practice, its record of the past is patchy, tearing wherever ambitious futures have stretched the network too thin.
In today's commercial climate, the album is a standard streaming-era extravaganza: 18 scattered, experimental, globe- and genre-hopping tracks in a sequence as patchy as a Drake playlist.
Liz Karan, senior manager for the high seas at Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit organization, said existing regulations were patchy and had struggled to protect ecosystems in international waters.
Kiatnakin, along with its auto finance peers like Thanachart Bank and Tisco Bank, has suffered loan contraction due to sluggish domestic car sales as the country's economic recovery remains patchy.
Oil and product stocks in the developed world are at a record, and global stocks are also likely at a record, according to Wilson, though precise global data is patchy.
Battling with a sluggish judicial system and patchy loan records, Italian banks on average recover in a year a sum equivalent to around 13 percent of their impaired loan stock.
Junkanoo characters are sometimes associated with Ashanti warriors: the swordsman became "Horned-Headed Man"; the commander became "Pitchy- Patchy"; Canoe himself became "House Head," incarnated here by Lyn-Kee-Chow.
A map of the world is composed of names of nations on a bright, patchy goldenrod ground between two blue horizontal borders that represent the night sky, flecked with stars.
"We believe Infosys' slowing growth in the past 18 months has more to do with patchy execution rather than strategy," CLSA analyst Ankur Rudra wrote in a note to clients.
But he looked in the mirror and saw his hair was longer than usual and his patchy beard was growing in, a far cry from his clean-cut military days.
Upon closer look, the king's face is framed by a patchy outline of paper edges, revealing an extra layer that has been pasted over the torso and suit of armor.
However, these efforts continue to face criticism for being patchy, piecemeal and, even in countries where they have been applied to its platform, weak and trivially easy to work around.
As a result you can use it for all kinds of network problems when you're getting patchy coverage or your phone is having trouble switching between towers (or indeed networks).
Blasts and other accidents are common in China due to patchy enforcement of safety rules, although the government has pledged to improve checks to try to stamp out such incidents.
You're sitting on the Tube waiting for your phone to connect to the patchy-at-best station WiFi so you can hit send on an urgent text before jumping aboard.
The government is keen to boost investment in the country's patchy 13,000-km gas grids, which are less than a fifth the size of the system in the United States.
World number four Zverev finished with one singles win from four matches in a patchy preparation ahead of the year's first grand slam at Melbourne Park starting on Jan. 15.
With few investment opportunities at home, Thai companies are looking abroad, but a patchy track record of foreign acquisitions and growing competition in Southeast Asia has left managements risk averse.
SYDNEY, June 5 (Reuters) - Australian job advertisements rose for a third straight month in May, a promising sign for continued labour demand even as official figures on employment remain patchy.
While the most recent U.S. employment figures beat expectations, economic data from the world's biggest economy has been patchy this year and has generally been outperformed by the euro zone.
Yet the trend toward widening economic inequality and narrowing economic opportunity, intensified by the Great Recession and the patchy recovery that has followed, goes back to the 2628s and '28500s.
The IMF, the United States and the European Union are becoming frustrated with Ukraine's patchy performance in tackling graft, and the Fund has threatened to halt aid until matters improve.
Looking at it up close, I think because it&aposs so chalky, some of the shades are chalky, it just made my eye shadow look super patchy in some places.
Back in 2007, that figure was just 65 billion euros — though liquidity regulation was so patchy that Deutsche did not report its reserves in a single number at the time.
Bank regulators have done a fairly good job of maintaining a level playing field, through forums like the Financial Stability Board, yet enforcement in areas like money laundering remains patchy.
It felt like a reward for a very patchy first day, perched in our pedals and roaring across the beautiful emptiness, tilted slightly downhill with the wind in our faces.
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony have been more than a little patchy in their recent concerts at their own Symphony Hall, but they always up their game on tour.
He said Russia must double its spending on the construction of roads, earmarking more than 11 trillion rubles (about $193 billion) for upgrading and extending the nation's patchy transportation network.
Our patchy, expensive, and inefficient health care system is already charging people thousands of dollars to get tested for the coronavirus, discouraging the kind of early diagnosis necessary for containment.
He had stepped back from day-to-day operations and was looking forward to honing his patchy D.I.Y. skills at a flat he bought on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
He reached the top, through barren slopes of scree and patchy grass, and raced down alone over the last 17 miles to the finish at the Serre Chevalier ski station.
Equivalence is a legal mechanism that allows countries from outside the EU to access the single market in limited circumstances, but access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
Service-sector confidence was unchanged from three months ago, the BOJ's "tankan" quarterly survey showed on Wednesday, underscoring the fragile and patchy nature of recovery in the world's third largest economy.
The naturally patchy Mexican forests, he has found, are much more resilient: Even in the face of a four-year drought and a 2003 wildfire, only 20% of the trees died.
From October, NHS England will begin to routinely carry out a standard set of genomic tests for some cancers and rare diseases, filling in the patchy use of such tests today.
"It is going to be a patchy recovery -– sell out trends are improving but there is still plenty of stock in the channels," Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Jon Cox said on Thursday.
Chronologically speaking, the coverage is patchy, as a new exhibition on the subject of pregnancy and art from the 16th century on, Portraying Pregnancy – from Holbein to Social Media, makes clear.
FIFTEEN YEARS after they joined the EU, the four "Visegrad" states of central Europe (the V4) can be prouder of their economic achievements than of their patchy record on political reform.
Briton Johanna Konta fought her way into the second semi-final of a patchy season with a 6-2 2-6 7-6(2) win over world number 31 Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
A severed head of an elk, the bar's inspiration, its dark eyes dulled, its fur patchy and antlers obscene, stares down from the end of the narrow hallway to the bathrooms.
Instagram hit the milestone of 1 billion users last week, but to keep growing it needs to find new markets, including countries where mobile coverage is patchy and data is expensive.
The impact remains patchy and hard to quantify, but there are plenty of signs that cheaper fuel prices are reversing or at least blunting the former trend towards increased fuel efficiency.
The fuel pipeline running from Beira to Zimbabwe was believed to be intact, the person said, though communication was still very patchy and therefore the situation at the port remained uncertain.
After some patchy form in the opening rounds Dimitrov hit top form to beat home hope Nick Kyrgios in the last 16, fuelling hopes of a first grand slam final appearance.
Its research shows the number of 'adverse credit' mortgage products or home loans to people with a patchy financial history, has more than doubled to 250 from 13 a year ago.
Food has rotted in refrigerators, hospitals have struggled to keep equipment operating, and people have clustered on the streets of Caracas to pick up patchy telephone signals to reach relatives abroad.
Alexander Zverev, who beat John Millman in a five-setter on Tuesday, had a message for critics whose focus has been on his patchy form since the start of the season.
Caixin's composite manufacturing and services PMI, also released on Thursday, reinforced the patchy growth underpinned by weaker demand in March, with the index falling to 52.1 from the previous month's 52.6.
After a slow start due to the patchy state of Italian banks' loan records and its own complexity, the GACS scheme has been a key contributor to banks' bad debt sales.
Though their patchy feathers and lumpy beaks will never go viral on social media, I'll talk them up to tour groups of schoolchildren until my peeping's as hoarse as the patients'.
Development has been patchy, but for every depopulating and ageing rustbelt in eastern Europe there is a booming industrial region, a tech cluster or a services centre desperate for more workers.
Mr. Tkachenko-Papizh, who arrived to two recent meetings on his bicycle and favors casual cotton shirts topped with a patchy vest, said he was not especially interested in being wealthy.
The soft debut comes at a time when, despite the flurry of IPOs in Hong Kong, the performance of stocks has been patchy amid weak markets and U.S.-China trade tensions.
After a highly-criticised exit from Wimbledon this year, Kyrgios said he liked the freedom of flying solo, and, in any case, his patchy work ethic would not appeal to coaches.
A government program called 'Connected Mexico' provides satellite-based Internet in local schools, but several teachers said the signal is patchy and it takes minutes to load a simple web page.
Consumer reluctance to make the switch from fossil fuels to electrons for automotive transport could be blamed on everything from patchy recharging infrastructure to relatively elevated EV prices to cheap oil.
The app is meant to take up a tiny bit of space on phones, at about 3MB, and â€" importantly for places with patchy coverage â€" support offline usage via caching.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cool, cloudy weather and patchy rainfall last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions could hinder the development of the next main crop, farmers said on Monday.
There's a scene in one episode, where one juvenile male lion, ripped-up with a patchy mane and a gray face, like something dead and then zombified, is surrounded by hyenas.
The vulgar side, the trashy, the elemental, the baldly populist — the side never better embodied than by this hulking, sweaty man with stringy hair, a patchy beard and an unforgettable sound.
Started in 2136, it was designed to prevent a repeat of the SARS epidemic, when slow, patchy reporting, compounded by local leaders' reluctance to share bad news, delayed the government's fight.
I apply brushstrokes in multiple directions so that light, hitting the ridges or marks made by the brush in the paint, causes some areas to read matte and some glossy. Patchy.
Details on the new system are patchy, but it seems that at least some caucuses will be tabulating and reporting their results through a combination of Google Forms and associated spreadsheets.
Equivalence is a legal mechanism that allows countries from outside the EU to access its single market in limited circumstances, but access is patchy and can be revoked at short notice.
Tuesday evening would be mild, with lows in the mid and upper 30s, and there was a chance for patchy fog but it was not expected to be dense, he added.
That standard turns up in a variety of other devices too, including the Amazon Fire TV—though support on Fire TV devices is patchy and non-existent on the most recent models.
The third license was offered at the behest of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and aims to boost the country's notoriously patchy services and end a domestic duopoly long accused of being uncompetitive.
They fret that opening Europe's patchy "four freedoms" (people, capital, services, goods) to negotiation could bring down the union; "cherry picking" (or "raisin picking" as they say here) being the ultimate crime.
The company is clearly trying to move the whole industry toward wireless audio, which has never been great due to patchy Bluetooth connectivity, poor fidelity — especially for music — and limited battery life.
From then on, he asked all of the women featured in his portrait series, "Unfading," to remove their wigs and reveal bald heads or patchy scalps or smooth foreheads with no eyebrows.
Governance at Mr Musk's firms is patchy and they may well fail (see article), but they are exactly the kind of exhilarating gamble that stockmarkets are meant to be good at funding.
Research into the extent of far-right sympathies in the armed forces is patchy, said Davey, and regulations prohibiting serving soldiers from political activity typically keep their views hidden from public view.
Taqanu is working on ways to establish identity using people's digital footprints, such as the location of their mobile phones or their use of social media, to complement often-patchy formal documentation.
CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL (Reuters) - Venezuela's streets were quieter than usual on Friday during an opposition-called strike, but participation was patchy after the socialist government threatened to shut down businesses that closed.
LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmakers' response to the threat posed by "superbugs" remains patchy even after years of warnings, according to the first analysis of individual companies' efforts to tackle the antibiotic resistance crisis.
The picture is patchy, with no up-to-date data available at a European level, leaving national and regional authorities to release statistics that are far from comprehensive and not always comparable.
The company is clearly trying to move the whole industry towards wireless audio, which has never been great due to patchy Bluetooth connectivity, poor fidelity — especially for music — and limited battery life.
As the Washington Post noted last spring, while the amount of panda-friendly bamboo forest has indeed increased, new habitats are patchy, isolated, and can only support a few dozen individuals each.
Critics say the system is patchy, unpredictable and access can be withdrawn at short notice, citing the four years it took for Europe and the United States to agree on clearing rules.
"The wheat and barley crops did look very dry and were visibly affected – patchy development, shorter than they should have been, and agricultural officers in the counties were worried," Belgrave told Reuters.
The arduous work of Protos' engineers shows how the patchy state of loan records at Italian banks is likely to hamper sales of bad debts for some time, despite a regulatory push.
But Hammond said the EU's third country equivalence regime would be wholly inadequate, and criticised the only patchy access it gives, as well as the possibility of revoking it at short notice.
But investors are jittery and Kiev's patchy performance on reforms – and Europe's own distractions like Brexit and an assertive China – have made it harder to keep so-called "Ukraine fatigue" at bay.
Others have experienced a patchy production history throughout the last few decades, such as Venezuela and Nigeria - which has recently taken a sharp turn for the worse in the case of Venezuela.
Staging the script's series of brief scenes at a moderate pace, Ms. Robillard provides a coherent interpretation of a patchy and somewhat unfulfilled drama that nevertheless considers its painful subject with compassion.
Figures for England are patchy as there is shamefully no national naloxone program, but the London Ambulance Service told me that in the last ten months 1,440 people have been given naloxone.
Patchy reform progress, including on promised tax and pension changes, and signs that vested interests continue to influence policy have raised concerns among Ukraine's foreign creditors about the authorities' commitment to change.
Problems in the town ranged from a patchy mobile network and small firms facing problems with digitalization to low pay, with some people earning less than 10 euros an hour, he said.
The warning followed the shock resignation last week of the economy minister, Aivaras Abromavicius, which highlighted divisions inside the ruling coalition and its patchy performance on reforms promised under the IMF program.
While Ko's play was patchy, with a bogey and only two birdies, her rival Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand had a day to forget with a two-over 73 featuring a triple bogey.
Repeated M.R.I.s showed progression of the patchy white spots, but the reports always said that the findings were consistent with M.S. The patient tried the usual treatments for M.S. They didn't help.
Dr. Pachauri, known familiarly as Patchy, was a vegetarian, both because of his religious commitment as a Hindu and because of his views on the impact of meat production on the climate.
Patrick Nolan, who became artistic director of Opera Queensland last year, is adamant that the company should still receive funding as one of the major performing arts companies, despite its patchy record.
Pakistan has long faced international pressure to shut off financing to militant groups operating from its soil and has repeatedly pledged action but results have been patchy and have failed to satisfy critics.
Indian monsoons, one of the largest determinants of the inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
However, flows into commodities were patchy in September and October, and the $3.8 billion in net inflows this year through October pales in comparison to $6.5 billion for the same period in 3.63.
"The current dust storm is more diffuse and patchy; it&aposs anyone&aposs guess how it will further develop, but it shows no sign of clearing," NASA officials wrote in the second update.
The app is designed to work on patchy or weak internet connections and, at just 10MB, it is small enough to cater to older phones and lower-end devices that have limited storage.
Several U.S. officials say that security cooperation has been hampered by patchy intelligence–sharing by Brussels and wide differences in the willingness of different agencies to work with foreign countries, even close allies.
Telegram was blocked in 2015, while Signal's service was patchy and had delays, according to AP. Other alternatives — like WeChat — is heavily monitored by censors, and messages containing politically sensitive information is blocked.
But his time in London was patchy at best; Vela wound up scoring only three goals over three seasons before Arsenal sold him to Real Sociedad, where he played from 2011 to 2017.
A bored child, running off from his parents at the street market, ends up getting kidnapped and sent to a labor camp in the icy purgatory of Siberia, living off patchy tundra grass.
In the past, you might've watched YouTube tutorials and tried your best to recreate what was on the screen, but somehow, your red eyeshadow acting as dried blood turned patchy before the party.
However, flows into commodities were patchy in September and October, and the $3.8 billion in net inflows this year through October pales in comparison to $3.63 billion for the same period in 2016.
Many are holding back due to lack of clarity over the new system and concerns over "patchy" availability of services such as scans in hospitals, said the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP).
The fund's economists inferred the size of the informal economy indirectly, based on more visible indicators that either cause informality (heavy taxes, high unemployment and patchy rule of law) or follow from it.
Since many small businesses have patchy records and no credit rating, Ethiopian banks demand interest rates of up to 20% and physical collateral of up to three times the value of the loan.
This will be an especially patchy month for you on the professional front, Leo, but if you can be resourceful and inventive in your problem-solving, you will persevere and emerge even stronger.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Since his election four years ago, Indian markets have welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign to mend patchy public finances and develop new areas of growth in Asia's third largest economy.
Service-sector confidence, however, was unchanged from three months ago as bad weather hurt private consumption, the survey showed, underscoring the fragile and patchy nature of recovery in the world's third largest economy.
Mobile network coverage in Europe's largest economy is often patchy and, together with delays in building out high-speed internet, has been criticized by business groups as a handicap in the digital era.
"Although euro zone economic data remain patchy and downside risks to the outlook dominate and have even increased somewhat, that has been the case for some time," ABN Amro said in a note.
Patchy rains and pest outbreaks have also threatened maize production in Zambia and Malawi, while Reuters journalists who traveled to Lesotho this weekend saw fields of stunted maize that looked in poor condition.
The trial has been postponed several times and Russia's IAC civil aviation investigative body has yet to release its report about the crash, which critics say exposed the country's patchy air safety record.
Two scenes in "The Program," Stephen Frears's patchy docudrama tracing the rise and fall of the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong tell you all you need to know about this crude cinematic demolition job.
The ongoing dust storm is similar to one observed by Viking I in 1977, NASA said, but is "more diffuse and patchy" than other global dust events seen in 1971-1972 and 2001.
But a signature program, Make in India, which aimed to help manufacturing, has produced a bumper crop of public pronouncements and scant hiring, in part because the nation's patchy infrastructure has discouraged investment.
But in its official statements or state media reports made at the time, the Chinese government never specified the steps it intended to take, and its follow-up has been patchy at best.
They are an integral part of the Great Plains landscape they helped create, and their patchy way of grazing is beneficial for water resources, for plant growth and for plant and animal diversity.
The evidence that this will work is patchy, with the price collapse in 2014 seen as a failed attempt to crush shale producers, one that ultimately led to the OPEC and allies agreement.
Other photographs focus on awkward juxtapositions of the old and the new: modern multiplexes looming over cobblestone streets; a Soviet commemorative monument to a fallen World War II solder standing in patchy grass.
The suspicion is driven partly by the patchy reporting of partial turnout data by the commission on the first day, and a jump in the turnout numbers of some provinces the following day.
MANILA (Reuters) - Health experts on Monday warned against a possible outbreak of measles in the Philippines, as a disease long under control is fueled by patchy immunization programs and declining trust in vaccines.
It was in some of these neighborhoods, in the nineties, in cheap bungalows behind patchy lawns and wire fences, south of 22000 and west of 45, that the Houston rap scene was born.
Jerome's patchy beard had turned into a choppy bush, but it was definitely him, and this realization made Tiny close her eyes for what seemed to her like a long minute or two.
"The only times India came up during product discussions was customizing those products on slow and patchy internet networks in developing countries," said a longtime Google executive who didn't wish to be named.
Official data covering the period after the referendum has been scarce, but there are patchy signs that consumer spending held up, while data on the housing market following the vote has been mixed.
Zverev, whose form on clay has been patchy so far this season, takes on Chilean Nicolas Jarry on Saturday in his first ATP title clash on the surface since last year's Italian Open.
"Unlike in recent years, where there was very patchy growth across the world, we are seeing a synchronized upswing in the global economy," said Alex Dryden, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management.
It made for a sluggish wearable experience defined by a clunky UI, patchy heart rate monitoring, and often, a bulky design to accommodate a massive battery that didn't last longer than 12-hours anyway.
For weeks, residents in Kabul without access to expensive private generators have endured winter cold and darkness with only patchy electricity supplies, fuelling public anger and putting growing pressure on the U.S.-backed government.
Today — with global economic growth patchy and monetary policy shifting fast — investors see certainty and predictability in short supply and have been bidding up assets viewed as containing these rare attributes in high concentrations.
Power remained patchy in most of the country after a blackout on Thursday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro claimed was a U.S.-backed act of "sabotage" on the country's principal hydroelectric dam.
He shouldered much of the blame for Colombia's patchy qualifying campaign, and the tension was evident when he flashed a middle finger towards journalists at the Colombian football federation's offices in Bogota last year.
If you've got a patchy cellular connection then chances are you're not going to get the browsing speeds you need on your laptop, and you'll need to move to an area with better coverage.
There's only so much these high priests and priestesses can do, and when both the science and the tools are still under frantic development, progress tends to be patchy and punctuated rather than pervasive.
The blackout has left food rotting in refrigerators, hospitals have struggled to keep equipment operating, and people have clustered on the streets of Caracas to pick up patchy telephone signals to reach relatives abroad.
Moreover, the monsoons, one of the largest determinants of India's inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
Data on the topic are patchy, and the circumstances of each payout are unique, but the sheer amount of money raises questions about whether the settlements are sending the right message to police departments.
Well, thanks to my oily complexion, while my skin looks pretty great in the morning, by the time I reach work it's mostly patchy and, by lunchtime, there's nothing left but an oil refinery.
We're talking white men with patchy facial hair, script tattoos and woven leather bracelets who appear on album covers with their arm resting upon one raw denim-clad knee, looking wistfully into the distance.
The access to Fassbinder that the relationship provided was a boon to the film, but a disadvantage as well because the close-up view results in a patchy portrait rather than a coherent biography.
"Unlike in recent years, where there was very patchy growth across the world, we are seeing a synchronised upswing in the global economy," Alex Dryden, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, said.
Despite the patchy enforcement of the regulations, the government appears to be trying to raise consciousness of the heat subsidies, not least among foreign employers who may need to pay them to their workers.
"The problem is that while a child may have stretched skin, patchy hair and sunken eyes, the parents see their swollen belly and think they are doing well," said Anna, a nurse at Bakassi.
And as Wi points out, the real-world picture is undoubtedly far bleaker, because global surveillance for drug-resistant gonorrhea is patchy and more frequently done in higher-income countries, which have greater resources.
She is discussing the ethos behind Itchy Scratchy Patchy, the playful line of decorative patches — and now clothing — that she co-founded with her lifelong friend, the British model Edie Campbell, a year ago.
Puerto Rico doesn't currently have cholera disease, but if it turns up, the island's mixture of a collapsed public health infrastructure and patchy access to clean water could be a recipe for an outbreak.
Insecure Where art thou Nathan, the Houston native/barber with a suspiciously patchy beard who once convinced Issa to swim naked in a stranger's pool and fool around while stuck atop a Ferris wheel?
But recent surveys suggest his government's popularity has declined after patchy progress on a commitment to end the war against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbass region, and to fight high-level graft.
Hise represents what he proudly describes as "the most socially conservative district in the state," and his patchy goatee and ill-fitting suits might give the impression that he's something of a country bumpkin.
"While today's update was very welcome given its patchy track record of earnings delivery, we still require more confidence that the market backdrop has stabilised before turning positive," Liberum analysts said in a note.
Sure, he has his blind spots and hangups, most notably that fearsome "devil with the yellow eyes" who pops up like a troll beneath a bridge every time David's memory hits a patchy stretch.
Morning commuters in New York and Boston were expected to face patchy dense fog, the National Weather Service warned, while some commuter trains in the New York City metro area were suspended or delayed.
SYDNEY, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Australian home prices rose overall in September as record-low mortgage rates kept demand strong in Melbourne and Sydney, though the performance of other cities was a lot more patchy.
There will be partially clear skies overnight in the Twin Cities, which will give way to patchy clouds and sunshine in the morning, Tyler Hasenstein, a meteorologist for the Weather Service, said Wednesday afternoon.
While there have been patchy signs that consumer spending has remained robust since the vote to leave the EU, business surveys point to the worst slowdown in corporate activity since the 2008/09 recession.
A second session, with another 60 volunteers, also asked them to rate if a facial cue associated with sickness was particularly apparent on a person perceived as sick, such as reddened eyes or patchy skin.
The regulator launched the survey early this year, concerned about patchy measures for fighting criminal abuse of the financial system and worried that without an appropriate response international trust in the system could be shaken.
Beauty & Body Care When it comes to how I present myself to the world, I know exactly what I "should" be doing to have smoother hair and non-patchy skin, but...I can't be bothered.
Tsunami warning systems were set up after 2004 but they have failed to prevent subsequent disasters, often because apparatus has not been maintained, while public education and disaster preparation efforts have been patchy at best.
There are no hidden settings or clever tricks for this one, though as with airplane mode it can be helpful if you're trying to fix patchy cell connectivity—just turn it on and off again.
Airbus has had patchy results with the latest version of its money-spinning A2330, relaunched in 2330 with efficient new Rolls-Royce engines, and has made boosting sales one of its top priorities this year.
Coverage of smaller companies has always been patchy and a spokesman for the EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority said there was "little evidence that the new rules would negatively impact SMEs".
But only if access is not equally flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal, with the risk that selective access to ad data ends up being just as controlled and manipulated as everything else on Facebook's platform.
Whereas most of them were classic techies, with patchy facial hair and ill-fitting clothes, the clean-cut Mr. Hearn had a taste for fashionable jeans and skateboard shoes — as well as an easy sociability.
Unlike months past where it's beachgoing or bust — surrendering yourself to a patchy sunburn and a beauty look courtesy of the day's humidity — fall's variety has a little something for everyone, minus the sweaty aesthetic.
Of course, whether it works is really all that matters — and not only does it work, but it actually got rid of the dry, patchy, rough texture on my cheeks after a few weekly uses.
PARIS (Reuters) - The global watchdog for money laundering will set up its first rules on oversight of cryptocurrencies by June, a major step towards creating international standards for an asset currently subject to patchy regulations.
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said EU countries must improve charging and refuelling infrastructure, which was non-existent for electric and hydrogen trucks and "very low and patchy" for trucks powered by natural gas.
The United Nations estimates about 70 percent of the world's land is undocumented, prompting a mass of initiatives to create databases, make up for the patchy records and use technology to better protect undocumented assets.
Without delay, we call on legislators to fix the patchy, inconsistent and often punitive rules that govern employee ownership—the practice of giving staff options to acquire a slice of the company they're working for.
That's even more true if you happen to own a $0003 smartphone and have patchy a mobile internet connection on a prepay deal, as many of the world's new internet population from emerging markets do.
Despite last year's average rains, farmers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states in southern India and some parts of the western state of Maharashtra are still struggling with dry conditions due to patchy rains there.
Ukraine has made patchy progress in rooting out endemic official corruption, despite repeated promises from the Western-backed government that took power in 2014 after a popular uprising driven partly by public anger over sleaze.
The patchy history of large-scale wave energy projects has made some investors cautious about sinking their money into ocean projects, said Braverman, whose company is considering a stock market listing to help raise capital.
People can't see through the shabby, patchy clothes, or the shoes with holes, and when they look at my untidy hair, they curl their lips scornfully and move away as if I were a beggar.
"Food is becoming more patchy and less reliable, so animals are moving around more," said Scott Kraus, vice president and chief scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.
The rollout of Covid-19 testing has been patchy, reliant on a mix of government and private labs to scale up the capacity to perform the tens of thousands of tests that will be necessary.
The place he chose would surprise people later, when they came with flowers: It wasn't a plaza or a spot where crowds gathered — just a stretch of patchy lawn on the shoulder of the road.
In particular, these letters vastly enrich our understanding of Plath's state of mind leading up to her suicide, which has been patchy and sparse, in part because of Hughes's decision to destroy her final journal.
A tall man with braids, a patchy beard, and dressed in all white guarded the entrance with his life, regularly waving off people who weren't in the camp but trying to get close to Popcaan.
We'll have mostly sunny days with highs near 60 (which is right around average) and cool, crisp nights in the 30s in our colder spots (and perhaps some patchy frost) and 40 to 45 downtown.
It was my sophomore year of high school, and the peach fuzz on my upper lip had gone from being a point of pride to a source of irritation: sparse but increasingly dark and patchy.
There are practical reasons for this sidelining: a patchy archive, a fading from public view in the 19223s, and a life cut short at the age of 21922 by kidney damage from a childhood illness.
The teenage striker Kylian Mbappé set up Dembélé's winner in the 261th minute with an astute pass, and the two caused problems for a patchy England defense all night with their electrifying speed and skill.
The disruptions are already rippling through global supply lines from Asia all the way to the United States, and is expected to lead to weaker foreign demand and patchy global trade in the coming months.
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said EU countries must improve charging and refueling infrastructure, which was non-existent for electric and hydrogen trucks and "very low and patchy" for trucks powered by natural gas.
As each brain has its differences, and our knowledge of neurological plasticity is patchy, the doctors could not tell us exactly how the altered architecture of Felix's brain would affect his development, only that it would.
Wolff grew a beard for his role in "Buried Child" — "a nice, patchy, dorky thing" — and despite the increased attention he got for "Paper Towns," he says that people in New York mostly leave him alone.
Too red, and you'll look like you fell asleep in a tanning bed; too dry, and you'll end up with patchy, inconsistent color; too shimmery, and you'll go from sun-kissed to disco ball real fast.
Patchy canvases collaged from paint fragments stripped from the facades of Old Havana hang in the same space as sculptures made from books and thread — everyday objects that help Quinoñes reframe larger social issues through metaphor.
As the solemn ceremony began at the site of the World Trade Center that was attacked by two hijacked airliners 15 years ago, there was patchy sunlight, with temperatures at about 13 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 Celsius).
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's power supply remained patchy on Friday after the worst blackout in decades paralyzed most of the country, exacerbating hardship for millions of people already suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods.
"Looking beyond the paper gold and focusing on the physical market, which often determines longer-term price trends, we note that off take has been somewhat patchy," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a note.
RESTORATION 'COMPLEX' The blackout has left food rotting in refrigerators, hospitals have struggled to keep equipment operating, and people have clustered on the streets of Caracas to pick up patchy telephone signals to reach relatives abroad.
Just a third of voters appear to back the plan, but the recent patchy record of opinion polls worldwide has fueled concerns of a shock result, and unnerved policymakers enough to prompt warnings from the SNB.
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE July 12 (Reuters) - India's strong diesel demand growth is decoupling from the car market as motorists increasingly turn to gasoline vehicles, leaving it more reliant on patchy demand from construction and heavy industry.
Central's online strategy has been patchy with the acquisition of Zalora Thailand, a $500 million joint venture with China's JD.com and a $200 million investment in the Thai unit of Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab.
The average interest rate on 30-year home loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, often used by first-time home-buyers and borrowers with patchy credit, increased to 4.50 percent, the highest since February 2011.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Asian fans of smartphone game Pokemon Go are hunting out the best telecom providers and network gear to overcome the hurdle posed by patchy network signals in their race to capture virtual cartoon characters.
But Ukrainian authorities have a patchy record on that score, and the wealth-declaration reform has been criticized by some lawmakers who want it either watered down or delayed, raising fears that it could prove toothless.
This has led to concerns in Southeast Asia's third largest economy that momentum to build the social enterprise sector is fizzing out with patchy official support and issues like a lack of funding and financial sustainability.
Market share data on the ride-hailing sector is patchy, but mobile data analytics firm App Annie ranks Grab ahead of Uber in all the big economies in Southeast Asia in terms of monthly active users.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may have to impose stricter measures in London to tackle the coronavirus because compliance with the government's advice in parts of the capital has been patchy, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.
But in several of the afflicted countries the regulation and monitoring of livestock and the reporting of outbreaks is patchy, to say the least, making it hard to be certain how far the disease has spread.
But equivalence offers only patchy and unpredictable direct access, which is why so many UK-based firms have set up in the EU. And this has raised questions about how beneficial equivalence will be in practice.
Besides patchy power supplies and high labor costs, South African miners are saddled with ore that typically produces twice as much platinum as palladium - just at a time a global platinum surplus is weighing on prices.
But there are still gaps that have led to some critics describing the country's laws as "patchy," particularly when it comes to the registration and regulation of military-style semiautomatic rifles (often known as assault weapons).
But New Zealand's laws still have gaps that have led to some critics describing the country's laws as "patchy," particularly when it comes to the registration and regulation of semiautomatic rifles (often known as assault weapons).
Although Afghan security forces have been fighting largely alone since the end of the main NATO-led combat mission in 2014, their performance has been patchy and they continue to rely heavily on U.S. air power.
One of the best we've come across in a rather patchy field is MyFitnessSync for Fitbit, which will set you back $5, but does do an admirable job of getting everything in your Fitbit account moved across.
Even some countries with patchy credit histories have recently garnered robust demand for their debt: Argentina managed to sell a large chunk of bonds with minimum fuss having been locked out of capital markets for 14 years.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, has led opinion polls against the incumbent Petro Poroshenko, whose popularity has been dragged down by patchy efforts to tackle corruption and sliding living standards.
Surveys make Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a TV series, the overwhelming favourite to defeat incumbent Petro Poroshenko, whose popularity has been dragged down by patchy efforts to tackle corruption and sliding living standards.
Haiti's tree cover may be around 30 percent, but it is patchy, which affects biodiversity, drought, water quality and the impact of natural disasters like Hurricane Matthew, now estimated to have taken at least a thousand lives.
Despite Osaka's lofty ranking following her rapid rise to the sport's summit, this was always going to be a potential banana skin for the Japanese, whose form since winning her second major in January has been patchy.
LONDON (Reuters) - Regulators need to step up risk assessments of the cryptocurrency sector as current rules are patchy, and quick technological change may lead to gaps in policies on digital money, the global financial stability watchdog said.
The jump in mortgage rates did not hurt interest to refinance an existing home, particularly among those who seek loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which helps first-time homebuyers and borrowers with patchy credit.
Though China agreed to a ban on North Korea's exports of coal (which earned it $1 billion last year, a third of its total export revenue), anecdotal evidence suggests cargo inspections at its border have been patchy.
The protests started over a hike in public transport fares but have broadened to include poor pensions, the high costs of utilities, medication and road tolls as well as patchy public services such as healthcare and education.
More recently, 22003's patchy MDNA album produced an underrated EDM thumper in "I'm Addicted," and "Living for Love," from 22015's messy but sometimes magical Rebel Heart LP, shows Madonna's unflagging passion for making people move.
The survey's authors acknowledge the difficulty of accounting for every gun in the world: Patchy gun registration systems are in place in many countries (including the U.S., which only requires federal registration of certain kinds of weapons).
Mortgage brokers in Queensland state said that banks can insist on more documentation in high-risk postcodes, including evidence of insurance prior to agreeing a loan, but the rigour with which they enforce the rules is patchy.
The instrument was able to map most of the moon's surface, but data from the permanent shadows — inside some of the craters near the poles — was a little bit patchy, and hard for researchers to work with.
Mortgage brokers in Queensland state said that banks can insist on more documentation in high-risk postcodes, including evidence of insurance prior to agreeing a loan, but the rigour with which they enforce the rules is patchy.
The encryption picture used to be patchy for Android, but in the past three or four years most new Android smartphones—including the popular Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel lines—have come with encryption enabled by default.
ABIDJAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Farmers in Ivory Coast's cocoa regions said on Monday more rain was needed to boost the April-to-September mid-crop following hot, dry weather last week and only patchy rainfall before that.
But patchy U.S. economic data, a more aggressive tightening stance from the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, and worries about valuations in stocks most closely geared to economic growth have spurred some shifts in allocations.
The bulk of the Euro 20143 squad, led by experienced playmaker Luka Modric, versatile midfielder Ivan Rakitic and towering striker Mario Mandzukic, was kept together to clinch a 2018 World Cup berth after a patchy qualifying campaign.
As a symbolic battle with a male beast, the number resembles Martha Graham's "Errand Into the Maze" (just as the stand-alone dress recalls Graham's "Episodes"), but the choreography (here and elsewhere) is patchy, the triumph unearned.
LONDON (Reuters) - Regulators have yet to get a firm handle on the world's $35 trillion shadow banking sector with supervision and data gathering still too patchy for spotting risks properly, the global Financial Stability Board said on Wednesday.
While the campers at the local Walmart have long since cleared out, local motels are still full of people affected by the fire as residents search for stability and clarity amid delayed insurance payouts and patchy FEMA support.
Amazon has been trying to localize its efforts in India, a move seen as key to success in a market where many people don't have bank accounts, infrastructure is not as well developed and internet can be patchy.
Some European politicians have spoken out against admitting Turkey, a large, mainly Muslim nation of nearly 80 million people that borders Iraq and Syria and has had a patchy record on democracy and human rights over the decades.
The trouble in accounting for industrial methane emissions—which can occur during extraction, transportation, processing and storage of natural gas, or when oil companies deliberately torch the stuff—is that they're extremely variable and our data is patchy.
As for the poor, who tend to work in the uninsured informal sector, they have had to rely on the patchy services provided by health ministries, often having to pay for drugs and even for syringes and sheets.
CARACAS, March 8 (Reuters) - Venezuela's power supply remained patchy on Friday after the worst blackout in decades paralyzed most of the country, exacerbating hardship for millions of people already suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods.
While it is required under China's "Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly" law that family members provide for the financial and medical needs of their parents, enforcement of such laws can be patchy, Caixin reported.
Even in the US, which, according to Gagnier "has been very forward and moving fast on these issues" of non-consent, enforcement is patchy, often because technology used to capture non-consensual porn moves much faster than lawmakers.
But while 2018 was a bumper year for listings, the post-listing performance was patchy, with companies such as Xiaomi and Meituan Dianping - which both raised billions of dollars in their IPOs - still trading below their offer prices.
Sunday's parliamentary election - the third in four years - has again put the spotlight on Bulgaria's patchy economic record since the fall of communism in 231, in particular its relatively low living standards after years of stop-go reforms.
They recovered from a patchy start – and brought in Zlatko Dalic as coach late last year – to finish behind Iceland in their qualifying group for Russia but in the November playoffs easily disposed of Greece over two legs.
The trial of the five airport employees has been postponed several times and Russia's IAC civil aviation investigative body has yet to release its report about the crash, which critics say exposed the country's patchy air safety record.
LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Britain may have to impose stricter measures in London to tackle the coronavirus because compliance with the government's advice in parts of the capital has been patchy, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.
PROVO, Utah — In the heavy quiet of the Utah desert, past fields of alfalfa and fruit trees, past the Goshen trailer park and a big, sprawling dairy farm, the domes of Jerusalem rise up from the patchy grass.
If in a worse case scenario Vodafone Idea were to fail, customer options would dramatically shrink and the networks of the two remaining major carriers would be further overloaded, exacerbating patchy coverage and call drops common in India.
It proposed a rebranding of the bloc's plans to build a capital markets union (CMU), a process that was launched five years ago but has so far seen only patchy progress despite several new laws and a reboot.
Then Mr. Jenkins stepped onto the patchy grass of the courtyard that sits between a grouping of desperate-looking buildings, low-slung and austere, the type of stingy architecture we've come to equate with housing for the poor.
In the West it is common for people to use multiple platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (see Graphic detail) but in African countries, where money is tighter and internet connections patchy, WhatsApp is an efficient one-stop-shop.
If you regularly struggle with breakouts, you may also want to consider foregoing tanning your face altogether: Acne-fighting ingredients like salicylic acid and medications like Accutane may dehydrate your skin, causing your tan to look patchy and dry.
In BP's case this has begun to translate into deliveries being pushed back nine months into the future in the latest case, a source said, raising the prospect of patchy supplies to Egypt's energy-intensive industries and power plants.
"I'm SHY," sings Ms. Hoffman, in the number that introduces her (it's called "Shy") in the Transport Group's genial, patchy revival of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress," which opened on Sunday night at the Abrons Arts Center.
Switzerland has shed some of its secrecy and passed laws to ease asset recovery and repatriation, but implementation tends to be patchy; Mr Sharman thinks weak laws and strong enforcement do more good than strong laws and weak enforcement.
These gaps have led to contentious debates in the country: Some gun owners don't want tougher laws, while police have come to see the current legal framework as "patchy," as reported by Stuff, a media company in New Zealand.
European companies with a U.S. presence are likely to receive a lift from the tax cuts, though the impact on bottom lines is expected to be patchy given the variety of corporate structures under which they operate in America.
Official numbers may suggest a rosier 2017 for China, but the bottom lines of the country's top consumer firms - from brewers to noodle makers and cinema chains - paint a patchy picture of spending in the world's second-largest economy.
Up to now, vague laws, patchy implementation and a lack of understanding among lawyers, judges, police and the public have hampered attempts to handle cases through the courts, and deterred many victims from filing suits, according to activist groups.
China has a patchy record for building safety regulations, and the country's Ministry of Emergency Management said it would launch nationwide fire safety inspections in buildings such as hotels, sauna, hospitals, schools and shopping malls, CCTV reported on Saturday.
Another scientist, Verena Schoepf from the University of Western Australia, said portions of the reef off the Kimberley coast had suffered severe but patchy bleaching and death rates of about 15 percent so far in the current bleaching event.
The 29-year-old midfielder has had a frustrating career for club and country, flashing brilliance at times while failing to deliver at others during stints with Borussia Dortmund either side of a patchy two years at Manchester United.
In a meeting with lawmakers who focused on the central bank's patchy forecasting record, Carney was pressed to explain why the BoE had changed its estimate of the so-called "equilibrium unemployment rate" for the first time in years.
Lashing the ANC for its patchy record in providing basic services and accusing it of pandering to the middle-class, Malema pledged that the EFF would give the poor land, water and electricity, as well as free internet access.
The two merge in one of the show's earliest pieces, the 1995 "Iron Heavens," a kind of altar screen pieced together from black oven pans, against which lean baseball bats, fire-scorched and covered with patchy tufts of cotton.
Her form in the leadup to the year's first grand slam has been patchy, losing her second match at the Brisbane International before being upset by Russian Daria Kasatkina in her Sydney International opener, the last warmup before Melbourne.
For example, Verizon—whose patchy 25G network has only just started coming online—has claimed in recent marketing that 25G will revolutionize health care by facilitating next-generation surgery tools, as well as VR and AR based diagnostic imaging.
Authorities have managed to provide only patchy access to power since the outage began on Thursday in what President Nicolas Maduro called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage, but critics insist it is the result of incompetence and corruption.
Even Prada's fall 2016 line subtly addressed the crisis with a heavily nautical men's line featuring sailor hats, hanging shirt and coat collars, faded and distressed patchy fabrics, and cuffs appearing as though they were about to fall off.
Tech companies say they want to allow for the expression of different views while avoid being used as a tool for physical harm, a balance that's made for patchy responses to charges they harbor and enable abuse and violence.
As expected we're looking at an extended pause in stead precipitation, although patchy areas of light snow and sleet could bring a another dusting and some slick spots to parts of the metro area late morning into early afternoon.
Russia's form over the last two years, though, has been patchy: the occasional creditable result, like a draw against Spain, but sapping setbacks, too, including a heavy defeat against Ivory Coast and a disappointing display in the Confederations Cup.
Foreign affairs analysts largely blamed the 2010 failure on a patchy Canadian campaign and policies likely to have alienated large voting blocs, such as a strong pro-Israel Middle East policy and reductions in aid to poor African nations.
HARARE (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Tuesday that Zimbabwe faced another poor harvest in 2020 because of patchy rains, compounding problems for millions of people already grappling with a drought and the worst economic crisis in a decade.
She would thin her pigments too, so that even within an area of single colour, like the background of Still Life with Wild Flowers, there are lots of different tones and a good deal of patchy variation and striation.
LONDON (Reuters) - The findings of a European Union review of mutual fund costs and fees due later this year will help investors make better choices in a sector whose performance is patchy in parts, a top EU regulator has said.
Stringing moves together was difficult for both teams on a patchy pitch and Argentina were relieved when the final whistle went after withstanding intense pressure from the Copa America holders, who are now sixth in the group on goal difference.
"It isn't just the half a million children or so on the Bangladeshi side of border but it's also those who are still left behind in Rakhine state, whose access to education is patchy at best and highly limited," he said.

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