Sentence examples for shameful pattern from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, his treatment at the hands of the Australian authorities follows a familiar and shameful pattern.

The report, written by a panel led by Lawrence Mulvey, the police commissioner of Nassau County on Long Island, examined 700 arrest records obtained through Freedom of Information lawsuits, and found a shameful pattern of abuses.

On Oct. 5, a federal judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, ruled that a court-appointed monitor was needed to oversee diversity initiatives in the Fire Department, because of what he viewed as a persistent and shameful pattern of discrimination against black candidates.

The question must be raised as to why this shameful pattern is continuing in this continent and how to break this vicious cycle.

Ms. Haggerty added, "We don't know if the perfect system has been built yet, but the relationships have been put in place so we don't repeat the shameful patterns of the past".

Later, Negro leagues players, who had been excluded until 1947 under the shameful national pattern of segregation, were given cash settlements, far short of pensions.

Or will we just wait a decade to read the inevitability shameful findings of another royal commission into historical patterns of institutional abuse of children?

It is these shameful feelings that cause us to react with patterns tied to our past.

This can be accomplished by acknowledging our strengths while working to diminish our negative patterns -- those things we feel shameful of.

Ms. Bloemink's last curatorial effort here, "Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists," questioned long-standing patterns of oppression against African-Americans by confronting our nation's shameful past.

Shameful, shameful, shameful.