The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

"There is a pattern of widespread and systematic violations that the prevailing impunity allows for the continuation of those violations,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek told the Reuters news agency Monday, Pyongyang's recent provocations appear to fit a pattern.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

even,and reserved. His fellow Hawaiians see a pattern.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Her poems do not rhyme or follow a special kind of pattern.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Many analysts view the seemingly mixed messages as part of a negotiating pattern by the North.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Geithner says the typical pattern of an economic turnaround dictates that only when businesses start to hire again will there be a peak in unemployment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Despite recent wet weather across much of the continent, climatologists warn that a looming El Nino pattern could bring drier conditions to Australia in the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24