Mr Chirac's presidential manifesto in 1995 was a hotch-potch of contradictions and promises, many later broken.
Power deregulation is getting under way in earnest too, although states are embracing a hotch-potch of different approaches.
The 1988 constitution, a hotch-potch of social and economic rights, encourages appeals in even trivial disputes to the Supreme Court.
If the bank failed, ETF investors would find that they acquired a hotch-potch of assets, rather than the portfolio they expected.
Chinese officials may well have noted, however, that among the demonstrators' hotch-potch of grievances those relating to China's politics were unusually conspicuous .
The tax bill is a hotch-potch, rather than a thorough overhaul.
And the area as a whole still relishes its ethnic, multicultural, bohemian, seedy-chic image a hotch potch of quaint antique shops, market stalls and vibrant street life.
Wild horses are more probably just a genetic hotch-potch of abandoned or forgotten creatures, many of them descendants of horses that escaped from their humans while the West was being settled.
For computing to become a utility, which is the promise of the cloud, a data centre cannot be a hotch-potch of boxes cobbled together from different vendors, but must be tightly integrated.
The Europeans will need time to work out exactly who does what in ways that produce a coherent military effort, rather than just the quirky sum of the hotch-potch of national parts.
And second, a sharp drop in support for the far right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and for a hotch-potch of extreme left and single-issue candidates has pulled French politics firmly back into the mainstream.
In one respect, this would be a shame: the new voting arrangements make sense, as does the idea of giving the Union a fundamental charter outlining its powers, in place of the current hotch-potch of treaties.
And you would want that in the care you receive, you would want that assurance of a standard being achieved and safety in the systems not a hotch- potch of local practice and incompatible and loss of data as you move from one institution to another.
In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.
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