To make matters worse, rat control has been balkanized, spread out in patchwork fashion among several agencies.

Meanwhile, beyond Toronto, the highway was being built in a patchwork fashion, focusing on congested areas first.

The fires ripped through the town in "patchwork fashion," destroying many homes and businesses.

This involved strips of uncured linoleum being cut and pieced together patchwork fashion before being hot rolled.

The system is now largely controlled in patchwork fashion, depending on who owns the power lines in a particular location.

Thus it was in a patchwork fashion that he 'earned the astonishing facts about Christine's professional life.

Slowly, in patchwork fashion, she remembered the nightmarish chase inside the Kinji-to, leading to the final confrontation with Fukuda.

Even in one bank different divisions use different systems, many of which have been developed in a patchwork fashion; one addition on top of another.

But before its passage, many of the changes had occurred in a patchwork fashion at the local level.

To the east, meadowland and forest mixed in patchwork fashion across the sweep of the land.