The phrase "a historical pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing trends, behaviors, or events that have occurred over time in a specific context.
Example: "The researchers identified a historical pattern of economic downturns following major political changes."
Alternatives: "a recurring trend of" or "a consistent history of".
But like other social movements, its experience fits a historical pattern of political policing being deployed against sectors of society that most resist the interests of the market.
It also bucks a historical pattern of declining support for foreign assistance when control of Congress and the White House is divided between Democrats and Republicans.
In Singapore on Friday, Mr. Lee portrayed the sinking as part of a historical pattern of North Korean aggression rather than as an isolated event, saying that North Korea had "repeatedly attacked us time and time again".
"Reliable data on these species goes back just fifty years, at most, but we know that there has been a historical pattern of loss in the UK going back even further.
"And if that's the decision he reached, that's perfectly consistent with sort of a historical pattern of things come up, you say a lot of things, even some bad things might happen, and then you can sort of put it behind you in order to unite the nation".
Having seen those numbers, it is not hard to understand why some women working on Wall Street think there should be enough money to compensate them for what courts have found -- and even some firms have acknowledged -- to be a historical pattern of unequal treatment.
In fact, the cumulative effects of artifacts can explain the entire backbone of relationships among major eukaryotic lineages, and no signal from an historical pattern of relationships appears to be required.
"Here you have a long historical pattern of settlement," said a local architect, Tariq Alireza, expressing a frustration I encountered again and again here.
The decline in injuries is remarkable because it reverses a historical pattern discovered by Robert S. Smith of Cornell in 1972: injuries usually rise when unemployment falls because work intensity increases and many inexperienced workers are hired.
The U.S., unlike Europe and the Middle East, has never had a persistent historical pattern of anti-Semitic violence until this decade in this city.
There appear to be many reasons for this failure: the absence of any democratic tradition, a long historical pattern of leadership by strongmen, and, not least, the fact that neither Moscow nor Washington has shown much interest in promoting a different kind of politics.
