Sentence examples for unfortunate pattern from inspiring English sources

For the Cardinals, it was a familiar and unfortunate pattern.

"There is an unfortunate pattern in this administration of issuing midnight regulations".

ABC's motives may have been less than stellar, but the network did, for an evening, buck that unfortunate pattern.

Clinton's reputation has also been prone to another unfortunate pattern: she was often more popular when she was seen to be suffering a traditionally feminine humiliation.

Like Taylor, he recalls details that fit with his self-conception, describing the crime as part of an unfortunate pattern in his life.

But the Muslim leaders refused and issued a statement saying, "This incident is the latest in an unfortunate pattern of exclusion by the Bush administration".

He said the investigation had "noted unfortunate patterns in the history of the 24 member 2010 Fifa executive committee" and also recommended members should not be allowed to take part in votes in which they share a nationality with one of the bidding nations.

Half-completion and premature abandonment are unfortunate patterns that I see repeated over and over in Senegal.

Current hypotheses for the biology underlying sporadic and familial ALS forms in humans represent non-competing mechanisms that are likely to converge in various unfortunate patterns to mediate selective motor neuron degeneration [3].

"It is an unfortunate recurring pattern in American history," Professor Foner said.

Bell commands opaque respect from the Bedouins and incites a doomed, suppressed passion in British men: an unfortunate repeat pattern of disaster which the movie leaves tactfully unexamined.