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She folded the quilt.

Oh, would you like a sweater or something, a quilt ?

I see you thrash wool. Could you thrash this quilt?

Out of the patchwork of conquests one world.

So the world is this complex patchwork of regions.

And as you can see, we have a patchwork across this ocean.

And so we ended up with this wild patchwork of regulations all over America.

Is it possible to replace a system based on fossil fuels with a patchwork of alternatives?

You've planned your vengeance out of the crazy quilt of your imagination sewed together with thin little threads of wishful thinking.

More like one insignificant corner patch in the crazy quilt of combat, but it was enough to end the existence of this little city.

The shield laws are our laws pretty much a patchwork of state laws that prevent a journalist from having to betray a source.

During his visit to Kabul, the Special Rapporteur was informed that virtually the only possibilities Afghan women had to work were in projects such as quilt making, sewing, washing laundry and teaching the Koran.

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

And they agreed, and between the time I saw this place and the next time I went, there was a terrible accident. A man, an old man, fell asleep, and his quilt dropped in a pan of fire that kept him warm.

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

A number of national female staff were authorized to monitor activities such as tailoring, poultry management, embroidery, quilt making, carpet weaving, bakery and veterinary projects involving women only, who went directly from their homes to the project site and back and communicated with their offices in writing.

Since international investors perceive the region as a patchwork of many separate markets interlinked by geopolitical risk, intraregional industrial business opportunities and capacities must be developed in order to reap greater welfare benefits from economic policy cooperation, industrial modernization and geopolitical risk amelioration.

The patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems is expensive and inefficient, and it produces wildly uneven results in terms of the reception, status determination, and integration of new arrivals. The EU should establish a single European Border Guard and a single Asylum and Migration Agency.

After all, the UK forbids outright payment for eggs, whereas in the United States, a highly differentiated market has grown up around consumer demand. And the UK has a national regulatory agency for IVF, whereas the US has a patchwork of state regulations (or a lack thereof).

So to invoke another metaphor, if you imagine social networks as a kind of vast fabric of humanity I'm connected to you and you to her, on out endlessly into the distance this fabric is actually like an old fashioned American quilt, and it has patches on it happy and unhappy patches.

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

This patchwork control of the Somali maritime environment has created or promoted three significant income generators for local administrations (a) the export from Somalia of, among other commodities, large commercial quantities of charcoal, (b) unrestrained foreign access to Somali marine resources and fisheries by foreign fishing vessels and (c) widespread piracy.

Like Egypt s war of attrition, the eurozone s underlying economic, financial, and social ferment continues. If governments continue to stumble from one patchwork remedy to another a probability that remains uncomfortably high the delay in implementing a comprehensive solution will eventually overwhelm the defenses that the ECB has so courageously put in place.

European banks remain balkanized, with a patchwork of national regulators seeking to promote their own champions. European governments debt may all be denominated in euro, but German and Italian debt are hardly the same thing, so the government euro bond market lacks the depth and liquidity of the US Treasury Bill market.

The availability of commercial genetic tests that reveal roughly how much Neanderthal DNA an individual possesses provides an opportunity to appreciate the complex origins of modern humans. While continuing to highlight humankind s shared modernity and African origins, we must also begin to accept and understand the emerging patchwork nature of our biological history.

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

That is not good enough. What is needed is a legitimate system of rules, norms, and institutions, devised by private as well as government stakeholders, that reflects the emerging global nature of economic, political, and social activity as the old state loses its dominance and must coexist with a patchwork of non state structures of association.

In the current environment, with a renewed focus on regulating markets, institutions, and financial instruments, some international differences in scale, scope, and application of the new rules may be inevitable. But, without a broadly consistent approach, the authorities risk creating a legal patchwork that would make cross border banking less efficient, more expensive, and more difficult to conduct.