Word: pattern
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...castles and feudal society. The specific literature of the time was merely a stepping stone, or window, into a broader study of society during the eleventh and twelfth century medieval courts of Europe and its position within the whole of European history. This is only one example of a pattern which I have found repeated throughout all of my core classes...
...Crimson found it uncomfortably easy to settle into what has become a familiar pattern at the start of the second, creating many chances but taking none of them...
Ironically, it is an excessive fear of casualties that has painted that mark on our soldiers abroad. The pattern was set in Somalia. There, a disgruntled warlord who didn't like the direction of the American operation arranged several ambushes in which United Nations soldiers where killed. When American troops pursued his forces, he struck at them, leaving a dozen Rangers dead...
They will try again. If the junta is seriously intent on remaining in power, the American presence, with its goal of restoring Aristide and civilizing (read: disarming) the military, is unacceptable. If the Clinton administration sticks to its pattern, even a few American casualties might lead to the mission's premature termination. Such, no doubt, is the junta's mindset. Cedras and company have little to lose; if they sit back passively, they will be thrown from power in a few weeks...
...President skated over one fundamental motive for entering Haiti: his own credibility. Rather than address the painful pattern of threat and retreat that has marked his foreign policy, given him a personal reputation for fecklessness and made the U.S. seem an unreliable superpower to friends and foes, he spoke only tangentially of living up to "American commitments." Translation, in words the Administration would certainly not use: Clinton had got himself into a box by repeatedly threatening to invade Haiti in order to scare the Cedras clique into leaving. If the Carter mission could not talk them into decamping, he would...