In his suit, filed in August in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Sterling contends that he faced a pattern of discrimination throughout his career.
The report also found that immigrants arrested in New York and housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn faced "a pattern of physical and verbal abuse" from some guards as well as "unduly harsh" detention policies.
Largely confined in the 19th century to the harbourside area of the city called Skid Road, African Americans faced a pattern of discrimination that was severe even by the discriminatory standards of the American West of the time.
The accuser, who is now 17, has testified that she and her family had faced a pattern of intimidation from the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since she alleged last year that Nechemya Weberman, the unlicensed therapist her parents had sent her to for counseling, repeatedly forced her to have oral sex during their sessions together from the time she was 12 until she turned 15.
In March, MIT officials said they had faced "a pattern of harassment and personal threats" since Swartz's death.
China's authorities face a mounting pattern of protests against pollution, and in particular, against industrial plants that locals can single out during the planning stage or in the early days of construction.
Some officials recall that the Soviet forces who invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 faced a similar pattern of poorly coordinated and clumsily executed attacks, but they note that it was not long before Moscow faced a formidable guerrilla movement.
In the Frankfurt an der Oder church, the Antichrist window was installed to the right of the central apse window; to the left were scenes from Genesis, including a claustrophobic Noah's Ark, in which strained faces peer through a pattern of portholes.
"The index shows high levels of generosity in countries facing turmoil -- reflecting a pattern of giving in post-conflict nations as people help others through the most difficult of times," John Low, chief executive of CAF, said in a statement.
Because Rennard was not facing criminal charges – but allegations of a pattern of conduct that had left women feeling uncomfortable, intimidated and which needed to be addressed.
