Sentences with 'patchwork'
Example sentences and phrases with the word patchwork and other words derived from it.
• « Also, territories were won by war or marriage, so they did not necessarily make sense on a map; many kings ruled over a patchwork of different regions that were not necessarily adjacent (i.e., they were not physically next to each other; a current example is the fact that Alaska is part of the United States but not contiguous with the "lower 48 states"). »
• « A patchwork of peace treaties across most of Europe had established the principle of princes determining the acceptable religion within their respective territories, but these treaties in no way represented anything recognisable today as 'toleration' - in fact, all parties believed they had exclusive access to spiritual truth. »
• « Among them, there were those who believed that as long as their country remained essentially a one-party dictatorship, according to Gorbachev's thesis, there would be no law guaranteeing freedom. And they saw only one solution: not Gorbachev's brilliant patchwork, but the end of the entire communist political and economic system and the creation of a true democracy. »