Sentence examples for represent a pattern from inspiring English sources

Yet to critics the missteps represent a pattern of poor judgment.

The suit suggests that the two incidents with the children represent a pattern of racial exclusion.

There's a cynical joke among journalists that three points make a trend, because any reporter can pretend that three arbitrary anecdotes or factoids represent a pattern.

After investigating the case, Ms. Zeigler's office determined that Captain Culbert's comments, while inappropriate, did not represent a pattern of misbehavior, but a single incident of insubordination, and the case was transferred to the department's Internal Affairs Bureau, the official said.

And this might be the real danger for Mr. Obama's administration — not that the spill itself remains unmanageable, but that it comes to represent a pattern in the public mind, a sense that too many dangers at once (mines and foreign economies collapsing, possible war on the Korean peninsula) seem to be gushing beyond his reach.

He continued: "These four assaults on Eddie Kidd represent a pattern of violent behaviour towards your husband which, taken together, are in the highest bracket for sentencing guidelines because your husband was particularly vulnerable and due to the repeated assaults on a disabled person".

"To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.

Ian Gordon at Investec kept his sell recommendation on RBS and said: It is easy to suggest that another failed disposal represents a pattern of careless behaviour, but such a conclusion would be harsh.

Trump conceded that he might have made such comments about Rosie O'Donnell, the comedienne, with whom he has traded barbs, but he denied that those remarks represented a pattern of behavior.

The headline linked to a report at Breitbart news, another conservative site, which suggests that the booklet represents "a pattern in which Obama — or the people representing and supporting him — manipulate his public persona".

Fifty percent of the city's urban plan of approximately 1300 km2 represents a pattern of untimely, undeveloped subdivisions.