A second official was a police surgeon accused of ignoring her medical problems as part of the pattern of retaliation.
When she put an end to the relationship, it says, he "started a consistent pattern of retaliation against her".
Captain Gatto filed a lawsuit in June in State Supreme Court in Manhattan under the state's whistle-blower law over what his lawyer, Jill Greenwald, called a pattern of retaliation and harassment by superiors that included providing him with shoddy equipment and repeatedly denying him raises and promotions.
The result was a pattern of retaliation that eventually led to a demotion and pay cut -- and the biggest sex discrimination case in history.
"I had the ability, but I certainly never used the traffic patterns for retaliation," Schwartz said of his tenure as traffic commissioner, which lasted from 1982 to 1986.
Patton talked about how victims of sexual assault in the military "perceive retaliation in the form of social retaliation, leadership retaliation, again, perceiving different forms of retaliation".
At the extreme, children who are bullied can exhibit patterns of irrational retaliation, such as the school shootings that have occurred around the country.
In the context of these theories and our study's findings, patterns of aggressive retaliation are better understood not as inborn traits or intractable habits, but rather as resulting in important ways from the social-cognitive frameworks that adolescents have developed.
That surprised many Israelis who expected the typical pattern of cross-border retaliation for Israeli shelling.
But this behavior fits a regular pattern of reprisals and retaliation against anyone who even mildly crosses Christie.
Perhaps it never conceived of a high-profile case being filed against it by one of its partners asserting a pattern of harassment and retaliation, which is what it is facing now.
