Yet it is part of a growing pattern.
The Puda Coal case is part of a growing pattern.
It isn't part of a growing pattern of collapsing institutional standards.
The explosions appeared to fit a growing pattern of suicide bombings by Chechen rebels.
But to some legal experts it is also part of a growing pattern of repression against protesters, demonstrators and dissenters.
They appeared to fit a growing pattern of suicide bombings that have struck both government and civilian targets in and around Chechnya.
Their forcible return is part of a growing pattern, as China casts its net beyond its borders to round up critics and others that have sought sanctuary abroad.
The smugglers soon created a lucrative underground industry that began flourishing in 2012, the same year that Amnesty International underscored Libya's growing pattern of "horrific abuse".
This was punishment for an unspecified breach of team rules but a stern reaction to a growing pattern of misbehavior that Smith, by his own admission, had let slide.
All three appear to be part of what federal authorities describe as a growing pattern of eco-sabotage, or vandalism, that its anonymous perpetrators claim to have carried out in defense of the environment.
It describes a growing pattern of large protests, sometimes involving tens of thousands of people, and an incident in which a defiant farmer cut off a tax collector's ear.
