"There was a pattern and a system".
That is a pattern, and it is a pattern with extremely serious consequences.
There was a pattern and a system," said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations for the ICRC.
When you're fired, however, you can see if there was a pattern, and you know how you've performed".
"If there's a pattern, and they can see the purpose of the learning, the learning will be stronger and better.
Shortly after turning over these records, the city conceded that there had been a "pattern and practice of strip-searches".
But as the weeks passed and more aid workers were cut down, including four drivers hauling emergency rations for the World Food Program, it was clear there was a pattern — and a message.
But you see there is a pattern and you just have to go with the experience because the narrative is very straightforward, very traditional and very conventional in many ways".
Over months and years, rather than days and weeks, stock prices tend to revert to normal levels, but this, too, is a pattern, and it creates opportunities for savvy investors with longer time horizons.
In ruling, the arbitrators decided that the statistical evidence proved that there had been a pattern and practice of discrimination against women in Merrill's brokerage operation -- the first such finding against a Wall Street firm.
