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fault and was
`` It was my fault ''.
It was my fault ''.
It was all my fault.
And the fault, of course, was Rameau's.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
Costaggini said it was Brumidi's fault in not providing enough material to fill the circle.
It became smart to say that the fault was with Dulles because he would not countenance thinking done by anyone but himself.
`` It was nobody's fault.
It wasn't Johnnie's fault that he was hopelessly tied down to that frightful woman who did her best to make his life unbearable.
His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.
The message is clear: failure was not due to any fault in the preparation, because Yahweh had foreseen everything, but to Israel's sin of unfaithfulness.
The quake produced a furrow in the ground along the fault line in Berkeley, across the grounds of the new State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind then under construction, which was noted by one early University of California professor.
Following a 12-year inquiry, Saville's report was made public on 15 June 2010, and contained findings of fault that could re-open the controversy, and potentially lead to criminal investigations for some soldiers involved in the killings.
The episodes are renumbered 1 to 9, although, in fact they are episodes 1-2, 5-6, and 9-13 ( a similar fault was made on the release of At Last the 1948 Show ).
One theory is that this was caused by a design fault in the ammunition loading system to the main gun turrets, so that an enemy hit on the turret set off an explosion in the magazine, thus sinking the ship.
Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.
The MICAS instrument was a design success, but the ultraviolet channel failed due to an electrical fault.
The " Diatribe " did not encourage any definite action ; this was its merit to the Erasmians and its fault in the eyes of the Lutherans.
He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.
The film was very well received with critics, currently holding a 96 % " Certified Fresh " approval on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating, " While frothy to a fault, Four Weddings and a Funeral features irresistibly breezy humor, and winsome performances from Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.
However, Watson and Crick found fault in her steadfast assertion that, according to her data, a helical structure was not the only possible shape for DNA — so they had a dilemma.
They explain to her that the problem with the earthquake was so bad, that it is creating a large fault along the Philippine Plate.

fault and whole
Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.
" As a discipline " political science, possibly like the social sciences as a whole, " lives on the fault line between the ' two cultures ' in the academy, the sciences and the humanities.
Many military commentators and historians believe that the failure to secure Arnhem was not the fault of the airborne forces ( who had held out for far longer than planned ), but of the operation as a whole.
[...] I thought it was quite extraordinary, because the stories were doing two things – they were making me and the whole project look like it was completely out of control and all my fault, and that Film Finance, the completion guarantors, were the only thing holding it together – the people trying to bring control to it ... the fact was, they were absolutely useless.
It is visible because the whole mass is squarely cut off by a great north-south fault, the Wasatch Fault, with down-throw to the Basin and Range province.
There are two main reasons: a fault tends to cause equipment damage ; and it tends to destabilize the whole system.
Third, even if a worker was slightly at fault, until 1945 such contributory negligence precluded the whole of the claim.
Siemens provided the funding through its energy division UBE ( Unternehmensbereich Energietechnik ), who had an interest in fault tolerant computers for use in nuclear installations, while Intel provided the technology, and the whole project was organised with alternate layers of Siemens and Intel management and engineers.
The court went out of its way to avoid criticizing Murphy, who, it said in its holding, was a " creative genius " just as Buchwald was, and the fault in the whole matter lay with Paramount.
In the eyes of many abolitionists the system also places too much fault with these lower-level trafficking individuals instead of targeting the whole complex hierarchy within the trade.
( 5 ) Narrated Aisha: Whoever claimed that ( the Prophet ) Muhammad saw his Lord, is committing a great fault, for he only saw Gabriel in his genuine shape in which he was created covering the whole horizon.
* August 17, 2012 – Train services along the whole stretch of North East Line disrupted due to a power supply fault and a subsequent signalling fault. This is due to a broken U-bolt which causes train delays throughout the day.
I confess to God Almighty, before the whole company of heaven, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned in thought, word, and deed ; in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, by my fault, by my fault, by my most grievous fault ; wherefore I pray God Almighty to have mercy on me, forgive me all my sins, and bring me to everlasting life.

fault and culture
Some anthropological theorists, however, while finding considerable fault with Lévi-Strauss's version of structuralism, did not turn away from a fundamental structural basis for human culture.
While Khrushchev, the Communist Party, and the Soviet Union's supporters in the West viewed the Gulag as a deviation of Stalin, Solzhenitsyn and the opposition tended to view it as a systemic fault of Soviet political culture — an inevitable outcome of the Bolshevik political project.
The culture of Europe might better be described as a series of multiple cultures, often competing ; geographical regions opposing one another, Orthodoxy as opposed to Protestantism as opposed to Judaism as opposed to Catholicism as opposed to Secularism as opposed to Islam ; many have claimed to identify cultural fault lines across the continent.
Wright states on p. 329 of Nonzero ( Vintage Paperback edition ) that " one can well imagine, as the Internet nurtures more and more communities of interest, true friendships more and more crossing the most dangerous fault lines — boundaries of religion, of nationality, of ethnicity, of culture.
Modern critics of Clean Pastures fault the film for its stereotypical depictions of black culture.

fault and Parisian
Viewed geologically, the Pays de Bray is a relatively small eroded anticline along the Bray fault, breaking through rocks on the fringe of the Parisian Basin.

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