The million-dollar deal began a pattern of big advances for projects with clear commercial potential.
At the same time, Mylan began a pattern of large, biannual price increases.
Despite poor health, Melville began a pattern of writing evenings, weekends, and on vacations.
"Goodbye, New York" began a pattern that would continue for Mr. Kollek for the next decade and a half.
The first presidential election, in 1825, was disputed and began a pattern of civil war and bad faith.
Even so, the two boys struck up a friendship, based on their shared literary interests, and began a pattern of friendship laced with rivalry that lasted until Hadden's death: Hadden was the star, Luce the envious sidekick.
Micheal Ray Richardson was asked about the man who exited that house and his young life, beginning a pattern of paternal abandonment often hypothesized to be the sad social dynamic that sentenced him to a punishing drug hell.
The woman, Lori Capobianco Haigh, said that in 1978, when she was 14, the priest, the Rev. John P. Lenihan, began a pattern of abuse that lasted throughout much of her adolescence.
The aforementioned wife began a pattern of passive-aggressive behavior that included sitting close to Horvath to, as she told TechCrunch, "make a point of intimidating" her.
The deal went through in 1999 with Portsmouth on the brink of bankruptcy and so began a pattern that would be repeated over the next 16 years.
