Sentence examples for pattern of buck from inspiring English sources

A remark like Ingraham's has the spray pattern of buck shot.

Jones's rejection of his party's top legislative priority carries big political risks for a congressman whom the right has already spent more than a decade trying to take down, but it fits his pattern of bucking GOP orthodoxy on everything from campaign finance to the Russia investigation to the war in Afghanistan.

BP's estimate of the damage have been consistently well below those of government and independent assessors, and a pattern of buck-passing is already well under way.

Hesse and Lebleu track the purchase patterns of Bernal Bucks cardholders — who number in the hundreds — online and check in face-to-face with merchants.

A glance back at the overall trends shows that violent crime doesn't only buck the pattern of economic policy, it also bucks the trends of social and penal policy.

This is the pattern of most of Ms. Buck-Morss's symmetries.

The expected guilty plea and the recent arrest of a Volkswagen executive on conspiracy charges buck a pattern of companies essentially paying their way out of criminal accusations.

The closing decades of an artist's life do not generally make the biographer's heart beat faster, but Claude Monet is one of a handful of painters who bucks the pattern of an irrelevant old age.

Under the first, Obama has a real chance to buck the depressing pattern of second terms.

It also bucks a historical pattern of declining support for foreign assistance when control of Congress and the White House is divided between Democrats and Republicans.

The postponement was accompanied by a bout of buck passing.