One panel member, Eric Goldstein, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said that the state agency to which the panel reports, the Department of Environmental Conservation, would need to reverse a pattern of staff cuts in recent years to oversee the new drilling properly.
It is also important that the SEC, following Chairman Cox's departure, reverse a pattern of recent staff decisions closing the door on shareholder access to the proxy ballot.
Arlene Mershell, 46, of Briarcliff Manor, said her stomach-reduction surgery kicked off a trend, reversing a pattern of obesity that had plagued her family for generations.
However, almost every significant economic figure that has come out over the past week has come in below expectations, reversing a pattern from earlier in the year.
Peter D. Rettaliata, an aviation executive in Bay Shore, predicted that many Long Island companies would be bidding for military contracts in the fight against terrorism, reversing a pattern that has existed for a generation.
And unless he soon reverses a pattern of decline, the nearly $20 million that he will earn this season will certainly limit the Knicks' competitive prospects within an N.B.A. financial system that is more restrictive than baseball's.
WASHINGTON — Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has reversed a pattern of systematically hiring conservative lawyers with little experience in civil rights, the practice that caused a scandal over politicization during the Bush administration.
Reversing a pattern of unhealthy thoughts and habits that have accumulated over a lifetime requires time and patience.
Colleges and universities, with help from government, need to provide more financial aid for science students and reverse a disastrous pattern of attrition that now sees more than half of science students switching majors before they graduate.
Doctor of Science Moshe Feldenkrais felt that if you could easily reverse a movement pattern, you have learned to do it well.
The presence of these companies has helped to reverse a long-standing pattern of brain drain, drawing in talented Nigerians who might once have gone abroad, enticing others to return, and luring ambitious Western professionals, too.
