| None the less the Act has impacted on police practices, albeit unevenly and patchily. |
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| By the end of this patchily engrossing and occasionally dense overview, Gould has managed to encapsulate the intrinsic worth of each domain. |
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| And slowly, and patchily, it became easier to buy the ingredients and the pots and knives she described. |
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| The rock is dominated by well-oriented hornblende surrounding porphyroclasts of diopside, which is patchily transitional into hornblende. |
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| Her nail varnish is applied patchily, on bitten fingernails and bitten toenails. |
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| A patchily brilliant double album that would have been a masterpiece shrunk down to just the one? |
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| But containment worked, however patchily, for 10 years more. |
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| China's intellectual-property laws are not bad on paper, but are enforced patchily and partially. |
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| Their food is often very patchily distributed, requiring them to search enormous areas to be sure of finding it. |
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| With few vehicles and vast areas to cover, the SSPS is inevitably patchily deployed. |
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| Loss of habitat and disturbance by reindeer herders and their animals on the patchily distributed breeding grounds. |
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| Infected plants are usually patchily distributed in crops, reflecting vector distribution. |
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| Second, the untying of aid is proceeding patchily but inexorably, and will greatly affect European research centres. |
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| Greater Short-horned Lizards are patchily distributed in Canada, and most populations are small. |
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| Water availability, on the other hand, is patchily distributed at all three scales. |
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| Without wishing to torment a good man having a bad week, Gold's reaction to a patchily upbeat survey had the numbed quality of a man reading someone else's script. |
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| But daycare is still expensive, inflexible and patchily provided, and the statistics indicate that working motherhood is less common than it might be assumed. |
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| They have heightened our sense of insecurity, our security measures, and, more patchily, our commitment to addressing the underlying causes of that insecurity. |
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| The experts also said these drugs were expensive because they were produced in rich, developed countries and only patchily distributed to the developing world. |
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| Most writing that lays claim to this term, whatever other merits it may display, ventures beyond certain core zones of attention only selectively and patchily. |
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| I was quite taken with his enterprise and probably would have bought a copy, even if I did think that the patchily copied papers might have been better presented. |
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| Ten years into a national strategy to standardise police IT, a picture emerges of systems being implemented patchily and sometimes reluctantly by individual forces. |
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| The History of Britain was rambling, shallow and patchily informed. |
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| It is widely but patchily distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, living on or near the sea bottom over continental slopes and upper and middle abyssal plain rises. |
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| The principles interfere with, and at times even contradict, the patchily applied law in a domain of great sensitivity in terms of national security. |
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| Lots of migrants move north to escape drug cartels and violence, but America's proximity to poor, patchily governed countries to its south is a business opportunity for criminals, too. |
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| Mixed farming occurs patchily along the coast and is dominated by pasture, forage, and grain production, with significant areas of blueberry harvesting. |
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| Mississippian strata occur patchily across the ecodistrict. |
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| Unlike the age in which Africa was patchily mapped through a distinctly colonialist lens, one could argue that today, we all finally know what the continent − and indeed the world − actually looks like. |
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| Insufficient pressure and the paint will not be applied or only patchily, while too much pressure will cause the paint to overlap onto the other surface. |
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| Within Canada, these lizards are patchily distributed in mixed-grass prairie habitat in south-eastern Alberta and south-western Saskatchewan, where they favour sheltered, south-facing slopes. |
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| For the rest of us, it's a watchable, patchily entertaining and forgettable movie. |
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| The dorsal surface of the majority of the paratopotypes has both shades of brown colors not divided in side-by-side lines but patchily distributed. |
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| Within the upper unit are the greenish bentonitic clays of the Kannaviou complex, patchily distributed around the Mamonia arc, which are crucial to this study. |
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