But repeating a pattern of behaviour familiar in Ukraine, Georgia and other crises, an unabashed Putin refused to back down.
But it was a phone call from Mayor John V. Lindsay in the spring of 1970 that led to Judge Knapp's most visible role: chairman of a five-member commission that would reveal, over many months, a pattern of corruption familiar in precinct houses throughout the five boroughs.
Human-rights groups have found a pattern of violence and torture familiar from the army's earlier campaigns.
Desserts follow the pattern of familiar fare unusually well prepared, reflecting great attention to detail.
It was ten inches long, and its handle was wrapped with tape that bore a pattern of tiny diamonds The men were familiar with the knife; it had recently been given to Clark by a close friend in the platoon who had been wounded.
In contrast to the Panaugia's emphasis on the centrality of light, the Panarchia, constituting as it does the initial application of the overtly "Patrizian" method mentioned in the title of the work, builds upon a pattern more familiar to students of the Platonic tradition.
But, apart from the continuing appeal and status of flying around the world, aviation could well be experiencing a pattern very familiar to observers of historical technology development and energy use.
Days of negotiation follow until, it's "agreed" that the party will be exactly like last year, (a pattern so familiar that the box of decorations from 1985 will return, once again, to hang in office cubicles and doorways).
First, it is disheartening to Azerbaijani democratic activists to see the United States so cravenly supporting dictatorship as a suitable form of rule, a pattern all too familiar from U.S. policy toward the entire Middle East.
My life has followed a pattern familiar to most of us as we grow older.
