"pattern of action" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a repeated or consistent way of behaving or carrying out tasks. Example: The detective noticed a pattern of action in the suspect's alibis, indicating that he was lying about his whereabouts on the night of the crime.
Whatever involves a sequence or pattern of action, he does fluently, unhesitatingly.
The 31-foot central beam is intricately balanced to produce a continuous pattern of action that can seem both uncanny and reassuring.
"This is a circular, regular pattern, of action and reaction, revenge for a reaction, and revenge for revenge," wrote Roni Shaked in the newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
Thus, for Mrs. Ford, a frank, plain-spoken Midwesterner, going public became a pattern of action that would also punctuate her post-White House years.
They are called 'sniper' (it looks into the order book, fires an order when it sees the prices it's told to get), 'guerilla', 'hunt' and 'dagger', all names metaphorically referring to a pattern of action.
The traditional theory is that this analog signal is then encoded into a pattern of action potentials that travels down the axon, in a signal that is akin to a digital, or pulse, code.
"The pattern of actions we are watching is troubling," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said in an interview.
The company goes on to outline a number of examples of a "pattern of actions" that it claims Google has taken to "entrench its dominance in the markets for online search and search advertising to the detriment of European consumers".
Dr. Michael F. Jacobson, the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, said he saw "a real pattern of actions that undercut the public's health".
Fewer citizens would challenge EPA's regulatory determinations were it not for its lack of accountability and transparency in accomplishing through a renegade pattern of actions what they cannot achieve through democratic legislative processes.
Firstly, the despoiling of the moral character of a role occupant, or the undermining of institutional processes and purposes, would typically require a pattern of actions — and not merely a single one-off action.
