Third, for decades we have advocated for a comprehensive approach to diversity and inclusion; the larger tech ecosystem's pattern of one-off initiatives has clearly failed, from pledges to unconscious bias training to whatever will be today's recommendation.
Rebels and analysts critical of Mr. Assad's government say he has a well-established pattern of agreeing to diplomatic initiatives to buy time, only to go on escalating the fighting.
That basic pattern of God's faithful initiative to foster life and wholeness should shape our dispositions to every question.
In Ohio, a new anti-abortion law follows the pattern of most of these new initiatives: making it more and more difficult for women to get abortions – with even greater impediments for poor women.
"The state has consistently shown a pattern of coming up with new initiatives, particularly when it comes to schools, then not funding them," said Mary Tomolonius, Canton's first selectwoman.
The army plans to "move from a pattern of solely reacting, to one of initiative," Gen. Sahul Mofaz, the chief of staff, said Sunday.
Their speech patterns, their unhesitating use of phrases such as "raft of initiatives" and "sustainability clusters" fails to penetrate human ears.
"I can't blame them for thinking, 'Where were you when we needed you?' " A review of recent federal initiatives reveals a pattern of the government's not fully delivering what was promised.
On other days he must wait his turn and then be prepared to set the pattern of the innings, to take the initiative, which was second nature to the likes of Richards and Ponting.
Randall Balmer, a professor of American Religion at Barnard College, said the Christian Sportsmen's Fellowship was part of the "pattern of what is called muscular Christianity, various initiatives that have been launched to attempt to make Christianity more palatable to men".
