Even before the shooting, the American Civil Liberties Union had joined black civil rights groups in filing suit in a federal court in Cleveland, pointing to a longtime pattern of racial profiling by Cincinnati police officers.
Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida and the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said recent security breaches involving a missing laptop computer and an eavesdropping device implanted in a department conference room were part of a longtime pattern.
The meeting fit with a longtime pattern of frequently unconventional and always well-choreographed encounters with the Kim family, usually accompanied by a blitz of cold war-style propaganda.
I recently learned from my dear friend that she has developed a longtime pattern of cheating on her husband of five years.
The Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed research group, urged the Giuliani administration yesterday to abandon the city's longtime practice of negotiating a contract with one union that sets a pattern for all other contracts.
But just when it appeared that Sampras's desperate attempt to soothe two empty years in his career would escape him, when it seemed Agassi's winter of wind sprints would doom his longtime rival, the pattern of the ages continued.
He called the shift in hiring patterns a "longtime national issue" that requires a coordinated response from government, academia, and industry.
Undeclared voters can vote in the primaries for either party, and between 35 and 40 percent of them are expected to turn out for the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, according to separate analyses by Andy Smith at the University of New Hampshire and David Paleologos at Suffolk University in Boston, both of them longtime students of New Hampshire voting patterns.
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has accused the network's boss, longtime political operative Roger Ailes, of a pattern of sexual harassment and of retaliating against her for trying to put a stop to it. .
But under Sacha Walckhoff, Lacroix's longtime creative director, the company continues to design vibrant, pattern-clashing items.
