Sentence examples for long-established pattern from inspiring English sources

That would be breaking a long-established pattern.

They confirmed the long-established pattern: about a third of all those in detention had clinically significant problems – and the longer the detention, the worse the problems.

Political and rights groups said that if the United States did not try to curb the general, it would be following a long-established pattern.

Mr. Jackson has a long-established pattern of firing advisers, lawyers, business managers, agents and other personnel as they fall out of favor.

Cycling must follow the long-established pattern of most pro sports, developing a league in which teams are stable and sustainable and where all profits are shared.

The long-established pattern of imports outweighing exports continued, though earnings from tourism and other services balanced the country's trade deficit in tangible goods.

He was accused by some of being "a man in a hurry", willing to disturb long-established patterns of worship without sufficiently understanding them.

Cardinal Pell said Vatican departments had long had "an almost free hand" with their finances and had followed "long-established patterns" in managing their affairs.

Yet even with my daughter happily still at home, this new era required alterations in long-established patterns of life — alterations that seemed ill fitting.

It is unclear whether the lobotomy changed Howard's personality or whether it accounts for his subsequent troubles, which were many but seem a direct result of long-established patterns of behavior.

As the world braces for a second wave of the swine flu that broke out in the spring and resulted in the deaths of more than 2,100 people worldwide, the disease is altering long-established patterns of everyday greeting.