The phrase "a pattern of assaults" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of attacks or aggressive actions that follow a recognizable trend or frequency.
Example: "The investigation revealed a pattern of assaults occurring in the same neighborhood over the past few months."
Alternatives: "a series of attacks" or "a trend of assaults".
The court accepted an appeal from a Pennsylvania inmate who is seeking thousands of dollars in damages for what he describes as a pattern of assault by prison guards that left him with a dislocated shoulder and other injuries.
But Straus himself said he thought this was a drastic underestimation". Walker, who was the featured speaker at the recent conference, "The Dark Side of Families: Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence," emphasized that she is not talking about one isolated physical assault but rather a pattern of physical assaults almost always preceded by a series of serious confrontations.
Although detectives do not see any pattern of assaults, the seriousness of the attack on Mr. Fordyce was alarming, and a police spokesman said the department will take steps to improve safety at the station.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, but the attack matched a pattern of Taliban assaults on government buildings.
This year the insurgents named their assault in memory of the one-eyed founding leader Mullah Omar, and in some ways the Kabul attack followed a pattern of guerrilla assaults the veteran would have found familiar.
But government officials said the attack followed a pattern of similar assaults, including ones this summer, that seemed timed to derail talks between two prime ministers who have repeatedly called for such a dialogue.
The police said Friday that they had added six attacks in subway stations to a pattern of sexual assaults that have badly shaken several neighborhoods in South Brooklyn, bringing the total number of cases in that area up to 20 since March.
Her story sheds light on three disturbing trends that the Pentagon would rather keep quiet: a culture of drug abuse among service members, the use of ill-prepared young informants to infiltrate that culture, and a pattern of sexual assaults that lead to retaliation against the victim.
They were outraged over not only the attack but also what many women describe as a pattern of harassment, assault and ill treatment that keeps them bound to a second-tier citizenship even as many increasingly educated and urbanized women are advancing in the workplace.
