Thus was an under-the-radar pattern established.
It's usually a longstanding pattern, established in childhood as the "family hero".
This maritime movement of business from the East End of Long Island to Connecticut follows a pattern established centuries ago.
I didn't pursue the friendship very vigorously until some years later, when somehow, slowly, a different pattern established itself between us.
Mayor Bloomberg has insisted that all city unions follow the wage pattern established by District Council 37, which represents 121,000 workers.
After the invasion of Iraq, theater on both sides of the Atlantic followed a pattern established during the similarly unpopular war in Vietnam, a movement from instinct to intellect and, finally, to art.
She is also capable of following the pattern, established by the likes of Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Moynihan and Jacob Javits, that finds New York senators playing a role on the national and world stages even as they defend local interests.
Choi's dazzling third novel follows the pattern established by her second, that of imagining a character on the sidelines of real historical events in this case, the hunt for a Unabomber-like terrorist.
"The class objectives are different from an individual state retirement system's objectives, and we don't see that there is a pattern established to the resolution of a state's individual claim," he said.
The pattern established by emancipation — in which black progress was valued chiefly in proportion to its ability to assuage white unease, in which self-congratulation became a national motif — remains with us.
City officials argued that despite the fact that some teachers would receive raises of more than 16percentnt -- which is more than other municipal workers received -- that the contract did not break the pattern established with other municipal unions.
