Quick prevailed, not because he could prove a pattern of anti-male animus at the plant but because, to put it baldly, only men have testicles.
These alarming numbers should have given the agency sufficient ammunition to prove a "pattern" of violations, a necessary precondition for shutting the operation.
Setting what was to prove a pattern, their subsequent debut album, Cicero Park, failed to make the charts at all, despite being a genuinely great record, offering a far tougher, sparser take on the nascent disco sound than the one they would subsequently become famous for.
In the waning days of the Clinton Administration, the acting head of Justice's civil-rights division, Bill Lann Lee, threatened to sue Los Angeles to prove a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and rights abuses unless the city consented to federal oversight.
Apple began with a full-fledged assault, hurling numerous trademark claims, design and technical patent claims and more; after judge Koh ordered Apple to pare it down, the company has focused on a few key patents, the simplicity of its design and working to prove a pattern of copying by Samsung.
That would prove a pattern.
In its decision, the N.B.A. cited just two violations, perhaps suggesting that it could not prove a longstanding pattern of conduct.
The appearance of (020) and (002) spots in selected area electron diffraction (SAED) patterns proved a fixed edge-on orientation even after solvent evaporation.
When I asked this morning for examples of where sentiment analysis had proved a useful predictor of voting patterns, the company behind that app returned with a blizzard of charts.
