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Instead it is a "purposeful pattern of incidents that occur over time enabling someone to exert power and control, or coerce another".
But Abu Ghraib was no rumor; it was an incident — indeed, part of a pattern of incidents — of indiscipline, cruelty, and moral failure.
In 2013, the government proudly trumpeted the introduction of a new definition of domestic violence and abuse as: "any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality.
Official definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales: "Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality".
The US Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion that the creation of a hostile environment requires a pattern of incidents - and no single incident, no matter how severe, can by itself be a pattern.
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The absence of a clear temporal pattern of incident emotional distress in the cancer trajectory indicates a need for clinician vigilance throughout the first year from diagnosis.
A slightly different pattern of incident diagnosis was observed for males with the peak age of onset at 15 19 years for AN, 10 14 years for EDNOS and 20 29 years of age for BN.
There was no clear pattern of incident reporting over time; the absence of reports pre-2005 is likely to reflect the fact that the NRLS was still in development and not yet fully established as a national presence.
The objective of the paper is to investigate the links between the patterns of incidents, the amount of hazardous materials locally present and capability of local emergency preparedness in rural local government councils.
Further, in both incidents a similar pattern of previous incidents, ignored warnings and ignored safety recommendations existed.
Recently, researchers have examined patterns of incident disease among persons emigrating from high-incidence (generally >50 cases/100,000 persons/year) to low-incidence regions (generally ≈10 cases/100,000 persons/year) (1– 5).
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