Most technology experts say central reservations systems are too useful to be replaced by a patchwork system of direct connections.

The threat that they would do so, creating a patchwork system of gasoline regulations, was another incentive for the industry to reach an agreement.

The patchwork electoral system was particularly hard on minority voters.

Health insurance coverage has long been a patchwork system in this country.

He broadly embraced the report of a bipartisan commission on how to overhaul the nation's patchwork electoral system.

We have a patchwork system of health care.

Although officials on both sides said little, Israeli television reported tonight that these areas would be governed by a patchwork system.

Food regulation is now a patchwork system that evolved over the last century.

Sixty years later, the patchwork system that evolved in the absence of national health insurance is unraveling.

For other counties, a patchwork system of laws applies.