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.
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.
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.
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