Sentence examples for under the old pattern from inspiring English sources

In early 1993, when the California Public Utilities Commission began a comprehensive review of the state's electricity industry -- then running under the old pattern of regulated utility monopolies -- the state was under pressure from industrial consumers to reduce prices that were among the highest in the nation.

But the sluggish recovery has brought back the old pattern.

We find that the old pattern has inverted.

Unfortunately the new plan appears to follow the old pattern of secrecy, exclusion and contest.

I think it'll go back to the old pattern: Heath, Thatcher, Major, Hague.

You will slip gradually back to the old pattern and find yourself back where you started.

But Northerners cling to the old patterns anyway.

Eventually the old patterns of corruption reasserted themselves.

In this, they have followed the old patterns of both co-opting and controlling the street.

"This is a rearrangement of the old patterns".

Un-farcing means you stop the old patterns; re-farcing means you create new more desirable patterns.