If there is a widespread pattern of addiction to home shopping, it has yet to emerge.

And what you see when you look at this is a widespread, systematic pattern of ethnic cleansing.

Fourteen officers were initially implicated in connection with what law-enforcement officials say was a widespread pattern of corruption and physical abuse.

Cases like the one involving the two teenagers, insurance industry executives say, are part of a widespread pattern of fraud across the country.

Brazil's courts exhibit widespread patterns of bias towards Brazilian mothers in Convention cases.

Amnesty, using the code words for major offenders, found "a persistent and widespread pattern of violations."

What's troublesome is when you have such a widespread pattern.

Front Line Defenders also described the arrests as part of a "widespread pattern of repression".

Although there are no hard numbers, concerns expressed by state officials and complaints from pharmacists suggest a widespread pattern of problems.