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The phrase "a pattern of aggression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a consistent or recurring behavior that involves hostile or violent actions.
Example: "The investigation revealed a pattern of aggression in the suspect's past interactions with others."
Alternatives: "a trend of hostility" or "a cycle of aggression."
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Video of the beating, recorded by George Holliday, a resident of a nearby apartment building, was repeatedly broadcast on television, inflaming anger over what was seen as a pattern of aggression and abuse by the Los Angeles police toward blacks and Hispanics.
The RAF says this follows a pattern of aggression by Russian jets.
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After Hitler's war, though, English-speaking historians were more likely to see a pattern of German aggression stretching back before 1914, and in 1961 the Hamburg historian Fritz Fischer made the controversial case (bitterly opposed by most German historians) that Germany had mounted a pre-emptive strike.
Northerners had been suspicious of the Gadsden Purchase, moves towards Cuba annexation, and the influence of slaveholding Cabinet members such as Davis, and saw the Nebraska bill as part of a pattern of southern aggression.
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As hard as Professor Mearsheimer is on China's hegemonic intentions, he is equally critical of an American pattern of aggression that has, in his view, helped give rise to China's own increasingly militaristic behavior.
In announcing the expulsion, Turnbull said Russia's actions were the latest in a "pattern of recklessness and aggression by the Russian government".
For example, she said, you might worry about a child who shows a pattern of more deliberate aggression, hitting another child in order to get something, rather than out of anger, then not responding to the other child's distress.
The United Nations Security Council met in an emergency session on Ukraine on Thursday afternoon, during which the United States and other Western allies expressed outrage at what they described as a pattern of deceitful Russian aggression.
Pusok and his attorneys say the arrests show a pattern of misbehavior and aggression on the part of law enforcement that culminated in the April beating.
"I believe that the pattern of aggression has increased since these unfortunate and tragic killings," he said.
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