Fault Sentence Examples

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  • Don't dare to say it was her fault.

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  • It's all your fault, you know.

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  • I am afraid I find fault with the poem as much as I enjoy it.

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  • They're as much at fault as him.

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  • I'm sorry I was rude to you, and I know it's not your fault you look so good in that suit.

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  • It's my fault he was caught.

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  • It wasn't his fault she was in such a rush tonight.

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  • Jake's death is not your fault.

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  • Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

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  • It's my fault Ne'Rin lost his faith in you.

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  • It.s my fault Toby was wandering around without someone watching him, but really, Kris, who assigns a woman an Immortal kid that.s not even her own and expects her to know what to do with it?

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  • If she was bored, it was no one's fault but her own.

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  • I do not suppose that I have attained to obscurity, but I should be proud if no more fatal fault were found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice.

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  • But it's not his fault.

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  • Really it was not my fault!

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  • You could lie and tell him Humphries said it wasn't really his fault and his mother was just upset at losing a daughter.

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  • Maybe Gabe was right; maybe this was partially her fault for breaking too many Immortal Laws at once.

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  • It's my fault I can't right this.

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  • Your chief fault, my friend, is in being made of wood, and that I suppose you cannot help.

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  • They say it wasn't my fault - but they don't want to marry me.

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  • Is it my fault?

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  • No one's to blame," said Natasha--"It's my fault.

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  • And it was always my fault.

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  • It isn't your fault.

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  • It was all her fault.

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  • It wasn't Darcie's fault.

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  • It wasn't your fault.

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  • It wasn't his fault.

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  • Maybe it had been partly her fault for insisting that he wear the pants.

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  • It's nobody's fault, it's just one of those things.

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  • Work to discover and rectify the fault in the dam ran into a number of problems.

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  • However, fault may play some role in a court's distribution of property.

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  • He found fault with the church for having substituted for Christian liberty a yoke of Jewish bondage.'

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  • The 72nd canon ordains that " no minister or ministers shall, without licence and direction of the bishop under hand and seal, appoint or keep any solemn fasts, either publicly or in any private houses, other than such as by law are or by public authority shall be appointed, nor shall be wittingly present at any of them under pain of suspension for the first fault, of excommunication for the second, and of deposition from the ministry for the third."

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  • When a room has bad acoustic quality we can almost always assign the fault to Large smooth surfaces on the walls, floor or ceiling, which reflect or echo the voice of the speaker so that the direct waves sent out by him at any instant are received by a hearer with the waves sent out previously and reflected at these smooth surfaces.

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  • It is with his interpretation and systematization of the moral sentiments that most of Martineau's critics have found fault.

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  • His chief fault is a certain carelessness in writing; he can never write a bad poem, but rarely a poem absolutely flawless.

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  • His sagacity was indeed sometimes at fault.

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  • Nor is that a being bound foranother's offence; for when it is said that we through Adam's sin have become obnoxious to the divine judgment, is is not to be taken as if we, being ourselves innocent and blameless, bear the fault of his offence, but that, we having been brought under a curse through his transgression, he is said to have bound us.

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  • Thus even infants, whilst they bring their own condemnation with them from their mother's womb, are bound not by another's but by their own fault.

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  • If this fault be in me or in Jonathan my son, give Urim, and if it be in Thy people Israel, give Thummim.'

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  • In this case the former of the two names might be derived from the root arar, " to curse"; the other from a root meaning "to be without fault."

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  • When the missionaries of other Roman Catholic orders made their way into China, twenty years later, they found great fault with the manner in which certain Chinese practices had been dealt with by the Jesuits, a matter in which Ricci's action and policy had given the tone to the mission in China - though in fact that tone was rather inherent in the Jesuit system than the outcome of individual character, for controversies of an exactly parallel nature arose two generations later in southern India, between the Jesuits and Capuchins, regarding what were called "Malabar rites."

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  • After the feudal vassals, decimated Struggle by the wars of religion and the executioners hand, with the and after the recalcitrant taxpayers, the Protestants, Protest- in their turn, and by their own fault, experienced this.

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  • The straw skep has, however, the irredeemable fault of fixed combs, and the gradual development of the movable-frame The mov- h i ve of to-day may be said to have first appeared in able-frame hive.

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  • This appliance, known as the " Novice Honey Extractor," became very popular in the United States of America, but it had the fault FIG.

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  • A well-made horse wants dissecting in detail, and then if a good judge can discover no fault with any part, but finds each of good proportions, and the whole to harmonize without defect, deformity or deficiency, he has before him a well-shaped horse; and of two equally well-made and equitably proportioned horses the best bred one will be the best.

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  • The thickness of the cross wire may also occasion a fault.

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  • They rest unconformably on the Silurian rocks on the King river and to the west are faulted against the schists by a powerful overthrust fault, traversing the Mount Lyell copper field.

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  • It is probably separated on the east from the recent deposits of the pampas by a great fault, which, however, is always concealed by an enormous mass of scree material.

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  • Whatever fault may be found with Polybius, there can be no question that he had formed a high conception of the task before him.

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  • It flows from north to south in a deep trough-like valley, the Aulon of the Greeks and Ghor of the Arabs, which is usually believed to follow the line of a fault or fracture of the earth's crust.

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  • Don't dare to say it was her fault to pretend to be someone she wasn't.

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  • We found ourselves in the middle of something that dropped in our laps through no fault or effort of our own.

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  • And it's my fault for bringing her into this mess.

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  • He's in trouble, B, and it's all my fault!

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  • The next, it's my fault she's gained twenty pounds.

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  • He had no interest in apportioning blame or proving that anyone was at fault.

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  • Scotland ' s longest Glen, and the UK ' s greatest geological fault, is 73 miles long.

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  • With a thrust fault, whose plane is inclined to the Earth's surface, one side moves upward over the other.

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  • I suspect my computer has developed a hardware fault.

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  • Broader picture smith wasat fault in getting rid the last auto.

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  • Palestine is now a key fault line in US imperialism's effort to establish ' full spectrum dominance ' around the world.

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  • A successful track record in electrical design and site test, commissioning and fault finding on rotating machines and controls.

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  • An atrial flutter is a fault in the electrical activity of the heart.

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  • My mother, who I might say is extremely fussy, could not fault the lodge.

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  • The train manager tried to placate my anger but made matters worse by spouting garbage that it wasn't her fault.

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  • Where we have studied the surface geomorphology of a fault, earthquake seismology provides insight into the nature of the faulting at depth.

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  • A light tap with a 7lb sledge hammer remedied the fault!

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  • Also included within this test is a polarity and earth fault loop impedance test of up to 10% of the sockets.

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  • The most common fault by far, is an obstruction stopping the pump impeller from spinning.

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  • The Customer acknowledges that it is technically impracticable to provide a fault free Service and Griffin does not undertake to do so.

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  • Vertical fault movements restrict rivers to a few deeply incised canyons.

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  • If the world does become inhospitable in the next few thousand or million years, then it will probably be our own fault.

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  • Whenever possible, each function should be implemented on a single replaceable item to make fault isolation straightforward.

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  • The primary focus will be on investigating lineaments of the region and determining which are active fault zones ' .

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  • Some things you can find on topographic maps free online are volcanoes and earthquake fault lines, mountain ranges and deserts.

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  • Try not to take it personally; it's not your fault.

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  • I get down I feel like the reason why they don't like me is because I'm too ugly, too fat, too stupid, like I'm never good enough and that's why its my fault that guys don't like me.

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  • The couple's marriage bell is placed in a prominent place in their home, and the newlyweds use the bell to end an argument without admission of fault.

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  • Depressed teenagers will also feel guilty for many things in their life that are either not their fault or uncontrollable, making them feel even worse about themselves.

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  • Sources say she appeared to be in a pain and was prescribed medication and release.Meanwhile, an investigation is underway to ensure that Milk Studio is not at fault for the fall.

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  • Sometimes, either by their own doing or by fault of a doctor, plastic surgery that is supposed to beautify a person can do the exact opposite.

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  • Some, maybe not her fault, but many or her slip-ups are definitely her fault.

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  • Has been in numerous car accidents - Too many to count, and most of them she has been at fault.

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  • It's not clear who was at fault for Willie Nelson racking up a debt of 32 million dollars to the Internal Revenue Service.

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  • This will decrease the possibility that the fault will not be passed on to the offspring.

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  • So now my boyfriend is mad at me and told me it's my fault because I'm not strict enough.

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  • Pyrenees, like most dogs that find themselves in rescue centers, arrive at shelters through no fault of their own.

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  • Most rescue Bulldogs are there through no fault of their own.

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  • It isn't the dog's fault; she cannot brush her teeth by herself.

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  • The individual blooms are small, but clustered in dense heads, their one fault being a somewhat unpleasant smell.

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  • Their only fault is in not proving really hardy, except in warm localities in the southern counties.

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  • These berries are studded thickly over the ash-grey stems and even on the old main branches, the one fault being that, clustering mainly on the underside, they are not readily seen.

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  • Please note that most companies will not refund money for misspellings, unless the company was at fault.

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  • They've also turned the fault into a feature of the store, with customers making pilgrimages to hunt down and find the Slaters menswear retailer nearest them.

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  • The fact is that in some cases underwire can cause such problems, but it really isn’t the fault of the underwire.

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  • Snoring is no one's fault, but it a nuisance that can strain a relationship between two people sleeping next to each other.

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  • The warranty does not cover damage due to mishandling of the glasses or breakage due to the wearer's fault.

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  • At the same time, many injury cases are extremely complex and the issues of fault, negligence, adequate maintenance, and other potential accident causes may need to be examined.

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  • Even casual statements such as "I was so stupid" could be recorded and repeated as an admission of fault.

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  • The biggest fault that can be said with Endless Ocean for the Wii is the monotony.

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  • When I first played, I thought it was utterly ridiculous how many points I was racking up through no fault of my own.

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  • As any intelligent person knows, this is not the fault of a video game.

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  • Dialogue is wooden (and it wasn't even Lucas' fault!) and dead-panned, and the comedy portion of Kenobi and Skywalker's light banter tried too hard.

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  • Nothing particularly special, but I can't exactly fault the developers for not spending too much time on this front either.

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  • Sadly, the biggest fault of the game is the fact that the developers gave you this huge environment to play around in, but hardly bother with letting the player choose how the game falls into place.

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  • The iPhone reception problems are among the most common iPhone complaints, but it is quite possible that this problem is not really the "fault" of Apple at all.

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  • Children who are diagnosed with depression should be reassured that the condition is quite common and that it is due to factors beyond their control (i.e., genetics, neurochemical imbalance) rather than any fault of the child.

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  • Parents are also often embarrassed by their child's alcohol abuse and may believe that it is somehow their fault.

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  • Siblings may fear they will catch the disease or perhaps caused it, and may need to reassured that they are not at fault.

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  • They should let the child know that bedwetting is not their fault.

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  • In 2000, there were reports that the surgical clamps used in circumcision were at fault in over 100 injuries reported between July 1996 and January 2000.

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  • Reassure any other children present that everything is okay and it is not their fault.

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  • The victim may think that no one will believe the assault occurred or that they were somehow at fault.

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  • Usually, rape and sexual assault cannot be prevented, and it is important that children and adolescents, who often think they are at fault after an attack, be told that there was nothing they could have done to prevent the attack.

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  • For the best mental health of the victim, parents should strive to listen to their children, use healthy coping strategies, and reassure the victim that he/she was not at fault.

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  • Children who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder should be reassured that the condition is due to factors beyond their control (i.e., genetics, neurochemical imbalance) rather than any fault of their own.

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  • When a fault occurs on this gene, it leads to difficulties in processing written language.

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  • It is not the parent's fault that babies cry.

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  • Explain to the child that getting JA is nobody's fault.

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  • Individuals must be released from work through no fault of their own to qualify for benefits.

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  • The Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program provides individuals who have lost a job through no fault of their own with monetary assistance until they can secure future employment.

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  • If the layoff wasn't your fault, you are entitled to a few layoff rights for workers.

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  • However, if the layoff happened for no fault of your own and is a result of company downsizing, for example, there are some laws in place to help you until you get back on your feet.

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  • Unemployment applies only in those special situations when you lose your job due to no fault of your own.

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  • The unemployment insurance program is designed to provide temporary financial support to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

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  • In most situations, unemployment insurance benefits go to those who are out of work through no fault of their own.

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  • If you find yourself unable to find employment and have lost your job due to a loss that is not your fault, it is your right to file an application for unemployment insurance benefits.

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  • If you can prove that you are unemployed due to no fault of your own and properly complete an application, you should have no problem getting unemployment benefits.

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  • If there's good evidence that the drug is at fault, the FDA may require the company to change its official information.

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  • The main quake occurred along the San Andreas fault and was felt as far as Los Angeles and Oregon, but the epicenter occurred most closely to the city by the bay.

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  • I, on the other hand, understand this is my fault but the problem is that I am shy.

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  • He blames you and says that it's your fault for not being able to be as romantic on the phone as you are on the Internet.

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  • I would really like some great date ideas that would show how much I care about him since most of the fights have been my fault.

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  • Every time she says this I have said that the other life which you think you have spoiled is not completely your fault.

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  • Take the time to explain to your children what is happening and that it is not their fault.

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  • It's no one's fault; it's simply a lesson to learn that will make you stronger in future love relationships.

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  • Sometimes, state courts award the ring to the person who was not at fault in a break-up.

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  • Most etiquette experts believe the woman should always offer to return the ring, regardless of fault or value.

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  • Care free to a fault, you probably find yourself in a bit of a scrape from time to time.

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  • Virgos can be disciplined to a fault, which means you may have to put off a romantic evening out because your man wants to finish a project at work.

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  • Additionally, he's loyal to a fault and will go to any length to ensure you're happy and safe.

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  • It isn't his fault that he has to wade through crowds of women to find his one and only.

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  • He's resilient to a fault because he'll continue to have faith even when the object of his adoration is unworthy of such dedication and devotion.

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  • They may see the divorce as the fault of one parent or another and direct anger toward that parent.

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  • Both parents should consistently assure the children that they are not at fault for the split and that they are deeply loved.

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  • That being said, it may not be the fault of the other parent at all.

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  • Then, it's not your fault if they have blisters at the end of the night.

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  • I wasn't up against anyone else, so if I didn't get it, it was entirely my own fault, which was pretty scary, but it worked out well and I got to test with the lovely Grayson McCouch.

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  • Grace's mother advises her to forgive Adrian and to forgive herself, because it is not Grace's fault that Jack strayed.

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  • There is also a repair form on this page that allows you to fill in details of the fault and your own details to return with the watch.

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  • Many theories suggest that the way some parts of the brain sends information to other parts may be at fault.

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  • It is not always the product that is at fault, as it is often the consumer who applied it!

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  • Some dealers deserve to be mistrusted, but frankly, they're blamed for everything, whether it's their fault or not.

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  • A policyholder who is involved in an accident will not be hit with higher rates following the incident, even if he or she was at fault.

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  • Collision-Covers the damage to a vehicle regardless of fault, based on a depreciated value of the vehicle.

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  • Some states have no-fault insurance, where companies cover injury claims regardless of who is at fault.

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  • This benefit covers the cost of medical care and of fixing property damage when the insured is at fault.

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  • This benefit covers the insured person in the event of a car accident at the fault of an uninsured or underinsured driver.

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  • This covers medical expenses for all covered individuals under the policy, no matter who is at fault.

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  • It's the amount the insurance company will pay to cover someone's injuries if you are at fault for the accident.

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  • It's how much the insurance company will pay to fix or replace someone's car if you are at fault.

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  • If you are injured in an accident, regardless of whether you are at fault, you can tap into this coverage to pay for doctor visits, ambulance rides, and physical therapy visits, among other things.

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  • You can purchase a policy which will cover you completely regardless of the cause of the damage - whether it was your fault or someone else's - usually by paying a daily fee for the policy.

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  • Most policies cover collisions whether or not you are at fault, but if you are the person at fault there is a good chance your policy premium costs may increase after the claim.

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  • Liability insurance is designed to protect you from financial consequences if you are involved in an accident where you are considered to be at fault.

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  • Sometimes quitting or being fired is an eligible reason too, but only if the Department of Labor determines that the termination was not the fault of the employee.

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  • California law requires that every driver must carry at least a minimum amount for the death or injury of anyone in an accident where you're either completely or partially at fault.

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  • Under California legislation, your unemployment must be "through no fault of your own."

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  • When a worker becomes unemployed due to cutbacks, layoffs or any other reason that is not the fault of the employee, then that employee could potentially qualify for New York State unemployment benefits.

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  • Finally, you will need to have some way to show that it's not your fault that you're unemployed.

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  • Unemployment insurance is available to employees who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

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  • Being the "at fault" driver in an accident will increase the likelihood that you will need to buy bad driver insurance.

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  • You have been in more than one car accident, especially if one or all of the accidents were your fault.

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  • In each of these cases, the negligence of the organization directly led to the injury, and that fault overrides any existing release forms.

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  • For example, certain agencies may waive your liability if you are not at fault.

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  • For example, if you're involved in a car wreck and you're found at fault, your liability coverage will pay the other driver's expenses.

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  • If someone is injured while visiting the property you rent, you may be liable for any medical costs that arise, particularly if you or your family members are found to be at fault for the injury.

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  • If a guest in your rented home is injured, even if you are not directly at fault for the injury, you may still be liable for the costs surrounding medical care for your guest.

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  • How much can you afford to pay if a court finds you at fault and responsible for medical bills that could amount to tens of thousands of dollars?

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  • If so, your liability insurance will pay for damages regardless who was at fault for the accident.

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  • The Maryland unemployment insurance plan is designed to provide some income replacement for people who are out of work through no fault of their own.

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  • You may find that the insurance does not cover instances where you are at fault for the damage, such as if you leave a candle burning and this causes a fire in your unit.

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  • A claim may be made by someone alleging that the product contained a flaw in its design which made it unsafe or that the fault rests in the manufacturing process.

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  • It's not their fault that "love me, love me" song is stuck on your head again now; go on and give this new one a try.

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  • Some of the early eliminations were not necessarily the fault of the contestants; they weren't there long enough to get to know Tila.

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  • And while they ultimately earn the viewer's sympathy, their situation is so unfair and their creation and purpose is so immoral, that it's very hard to fault them for their reaction.

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  • Harry had to go to Diagon Alley and buy his wand from Mr. Ollivander, but what he didn't know (and it's not his fault - nobody told him) is that the most powerful wands are those you make yourself.

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  • Watching the two of them, it was all she could do to control her own tears... especially knowing that this was at least partly her fault.

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  • It's not your fault.

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  • It's all my fault.

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  • It was my fault.

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  • It was her fault he was in the hospital.

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  • You don't believe this is your fault.

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  • A second glass led her to think it was all her fault.

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  • What happened to Toby wasn.t your fault.

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  • Can you find fault with that?

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  • It was all his fault.

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  • Granted, we didn't stop her death, but she didn't kill herself through any direct fault of ours.

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  • She asked for it—it was her fault!

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  • You think everything wrong with us is your fault, and that is simply not true.

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  • It's not your fault, Toby.

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  • No. It isn't anyone's fault.

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  • No, she didn't have much faith in him, but that wasn't his fault.

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  • This is my fault!

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  • A fault divides the latter from the mass of red-brown Old Red Sandstone that spreads south nearly to Enniskillen.

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  • Instead, however, of proceeding with the work of practical legislation, accepting the Instrument of Government without challenge as the basis of its authority, the parliament immediately began to discuss and find fault with the constitution and to debate about "Fundamentals."

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  • The fault was no doubt partly Cromwell's own.

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  • The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

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  • Within a few years several methods had been proposed by different inventors, but none was at first very successful, not from any fault in the principle, but because the effect of electrostatic capacity of the line was left out of account in the early arrangements.

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  • She started from Valentia at the end of July, but fault after fault was discovered in the cable and the final misfortune was that on the 2nd of August, when nearly 1200 m.

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  • In order not to confound the innocent with the guilty, Torquemada published a declaration offering grace and pardon to all who presented themselves before the tribunal and avowed their fault.

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  • Accidents to passengers other than those caused by collisions or derailments of trains are very largely due to causes which it is fair to class either as unavoidable or as due mainly to the fault or carelessness of the victim himself.

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  • Passengers Servants Other accidents, due to railway operations Passengers and others Servants Other accidents, victim's own fault - Passengers and others.

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  • Many of them are fault block mountains, the crust having been broken and the blocks tilted so that there is a steep face on one side and a gentle slope on the other.

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  • They met with a quick and easy sale, were very extensively read, and very liberally and deservedly praised for the unflagging industry and vigour they displayed, though just exception, if only on the score of good taste, was taken to the scoffing tone he continued to maintain in all passages where the Christian religion was specially concerned, and much fault was found with the indecency of some of his notes.'

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  • That his temperament at the same time was frigid and comparatively passionless cannot be denied; but neither ought this to be imputed to him as a fault; hostile criticisms upon the grief for a father's death, that " was soothed by the conscious satisfaction that I had discharged all the duties of filial piety," seem somewhat out of place.

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  • The recent excavations by the British School on the site of the Dictaean temple at Palaikastro bear out this conclusion, and an archaic marble head of Apollo found at Eleutherna shows that classical tradition was not at fault in recording the existence of a very early school of Greek sculpture in the island, illustrated by the names of Dipoenos and Scyllis.

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  • The intervening depression, which seems to be bounded on the west by a fault, is filled to a large extent by sandstones and marls of Eocene age.

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  • The generous elevation of David's character is seen most clearly in those parts of his life where an inferior nature would have been most at fault, - in his conduct towards Saul, in the blameless reputation of himself and his band of outlaws in the wilderness of Judah, in his repentance under the rebuke of Nathan and in his noble bearing on the revolt of Absalom.

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  • But here something (probably the examiner) was at fault, for a note was attached to Pasteur's diploma stating that he was only "mediocre" in chemistry.

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  • By his personal conduct he had set an ideal example for Anglican priests, and it was not his fault that national authority failed to crush the individualistic tendencies of the Protestant Reformation.

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  • If I have dived therein without finding any pearls it is the fault of my star and not of the sea."

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  • Ray's interest in ornithology continued, and in 1694 he completed a Synopsis Methodica Avium, which, through the fault of the booksellers to whom it was entrusted, was not published till 1713, when Derham gave it to the world.'

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  • His chief fault is his overweening haughtiness, due to an over-exalted opinion of his position, which leads him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

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  • There was a constant feud between the chief of Bobbili and the raja of Vizianagram; and when Bussy marched to restore order the raja persuaded him that the fault lay with the chief of Bobbili and joined the French with 11,000 men against his rival.

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  • Medical science has never gauged, perhaps never enough set itself to gauge the intimate connexion between moral fault and disease.

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  • Some days afterwards Ignatius was examined and found without fault.

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  • No fault was found in their life and teaching; but they were forbidden to define any sins as being mortal or venial until they had studied for four years.

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  • It is probable that his fault was one of negligence only; but, distrusting the impartiality of the judges of the Somme, he fled to Paris, and on the 23rd of August 1793 was condemned in contumaciam to twenty years' imprisonment.

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  • No reasonable fault can be found with the marine surveyors of this period, but the scientific cartographers allowed themselves too frequently to be influenced by Ptolemaic traditions.

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  • This was the fault of their leaders solely, for, except for the last attack, local superiority was in each case attainable.

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  • Bernadotte, however, was missing, and this time through no fault of his own.

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  • Before being admitted to deacon's orders he had communicated to a friend some fault which he had committed when about fifteen years of age.

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  • And law in plenty was forthcoming, so soon as the Church developed the discipline of public confessions followed by appropriate penances for each fault.

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  • Nor can it be said that the instinct of the saint was altogether at fault.

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  • The fault of the controversialists on both sides has been that each party has only seen "one side of the shield."

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  • In personal character he has sometimes been described as having been revoltingly heartless; and it is abundantly plain that he was singularly incapable of feeling strongly the more generous emotions - a misfortune, or a fault, which revealed itself in many ways.

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  • He was amiable and even estimable, the chief fault of his character being vanity and an incurable tendency towards theatrical effect, which makes his travels, memoirs and other personal records as well as his historical works radically untrustworthy.

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  • Both here and elsewhere his great fault was an inveterate superficiality.

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  • Private affairs also combined to urge Gentz to leave the Prussian service; for, mainly through his own fault, a separation with his wife was arranged.

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  • One main fault of the Speculum Historiale is the unduly large space devoted to miracles.

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  • In 1848, through no fault of his own, his salary was reduced to go.

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  • It is supposed to be due to a great fault along its western margin.

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  • But Amy, scarcely by her own fault, is drawn into certain breaches of definite moral laws which Defoe did understand, and she is therefore condemned, with hardly a word of pity, to a miserable end.

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  • The geological " Great Fault " stretches from sea to sea at the foot of these hills.

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  • North of the Great Fault and at Comino the level of the beds is about 400 ft.

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  • One of the scarps or steps is the result of a great fault or displacement of the earth's crust, and is known as the Balcones fault scarp; others are due to erosion and weatherin g of alternate layers of hard and soft rocks lying almost horizontal.

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  • This range of mountains, which was formed by a great fault, has a maximum elevation at its southern end of about 9000 ft.

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  • It was his own fault that he saddled himself with the Le Vasseurs, but their conduct was probably, if not certainly, ungrateful in the extreme.

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  • He loved stories for their own sake, and found fault with Wace for questioning the miraculous elements in the legend of Arthur.

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  • The failure of the scheme was due not to any fault of the count, but to the inefficiency and insubordination of the district officers.

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  • He held fast to the great idea of the catholicity of the English Church, to that conception of it which regards it as a branch of the whole Christian church, and emphasizes its historical continuity and identity from the time of the apostles, but here again his policy was at fault; for his despotic administration not only excited and exaggerated the tendencies to separatism and independentism which finally prevailed, but excluded large bodies of faithful churchmen from communion with their church and from their country.

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  • Burr was unscrupulous, insincere and notoriously immoral, but he was pleasing in his manners, generous to a fault, and was intensely devoted to his wife and daughter.

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  • And after the establishment of the monarchy, though the conditions for an accurate chronology now existed, errors by some means or other found their way into the figures; so that the dates, as we now have them, are in many cases at fault by as much as two to three decades of years.

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  • His chief financial expedient was to debase, or rather ruin, the currency by issuing copper tokens redeemable in better times; but it was no fault of his that Charles XII., during his absence, flung upon the market too enormous an amount of this copper money for Gertz to deal with.

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  • In the "Seven Days" Jackson was frequently at fault, but his driving energy bore no small part in securing the defeat of McClellan's advance on Richmond.

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  • The translation, however, is stiff and literal to a fault, violating idiomatic usage and the proper order of words in its strict adherence to the Latin.

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  • He has not only the fault of diffuseness, which is common to so many of the best-known historians of his century, but others as serious or more so.

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  • He was recalled in April 1573, but the queen recognized that the failure had been due to no fault of his, and eight months later he was admitted to the privy council and made joint secretary of state with Sir Thomas Smith.

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  • The French government, which by the fault of the British administration was allowed to take the offensive, had three objects in view - to help the Americans, to expel the British from the West Indies and to occupy the main strength of the naval forces of Great Britain in the Channel.

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  • Near the Colorado river the dissected cuesta of the Grand Prairie passes southward, by a change to a more nearly horizontal structure, into the dissected Edwards plateau (to be referred to again as part of the Great Plains), which terminates in a maturely dissected fault scarp, 300 or 400 ft.

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  • Throughout the whole length of the chain, wherever the junction of the Siwaliks with the pre-Tertiary rocks has been seen, it is a great reversed fault.

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  • But the great fault just described is not the only one of this character.

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  • The fault was not wholly in the subjectivism of the movement.

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  • As a writer, his chief fault is want of concentration;.

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  • His writings have not one literary fault except their occasional looseness of grammar and their frequent indecency.

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  • Longfellow could never be brought to find fault with anybody or anything."

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  • Her dower is not lost by a divorce resulting from the fault or misconduct of the husband.

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  • A worse fault is the vTCXo,uveta, or, to borrow Butler's expression, the Cat-andPuss dialogue, which abounds.

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  • He also appointed another select committee to consider how to control expenditure, the chairman of which, Mr. Herbert Samuel, told him that his fault as a Chancellor of the Exchequer was that he was " too amiable."

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  • The fault that the City of London found with him was that he was too much occupied as Leader of the House and member of the War Cabinet to give sufficient attention to finance.

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  • The positions of springs are determined by permeable depressions in the surface of the ground below the general level of saturation, and frequently also by the holding up of that level locally by comparatively impermeable strata, sometimes combined with a fault or a synclinal fold of the strata, forming the more permeable portion into an underground basin or channel lying within comparatively impermeable boundaries.

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  • If, therefore, one part is held up, by unyielding rock for example, while an adjoining part has no support but the clay beneath it, a fracture - not unlike a geological fault - must result.

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  • The puddle at a was originally held up by the flat head of this pedestal; not so the puddle at b, which under the superincumbent weight settled down and produced the fault bc, accompanied with a shearing or tangential strain or, less probably, with actual fracture in the direction bd.

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  • This western shore is marked by a continuous fault line which runs parallel to the lake at a short distance inland.

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  • Washington lamented deeply the death of Laurens, saying of him, "He had not a fault that I could discover, unless it were intrepidity bordering upon rashness."

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  • Though himself pious, of blameless morality, hospitable to a fault, and so exempt from avarice, says his secretary Conti, that he could not endure the sight of money, it was Sixtus's misfortune to have had no natural outlet for strong affections except unworthy relatives; and his great vices were nepotism, ambition and extravagance.

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  • Some of the local magnates made a desperate defence of their own regions, especially Ulfkytel of East Anglia, a Dane by descent; but the central government was at fault.

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  • It was not Stephens fault that the boundary of England did not permanently recede from the Tweed and the Soiway to the Tyne and the Ribble.

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  • It was,not Johns fault that the campaign failed.

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  • His greatest fault in the eyes of his subjects was his love of foreigners; since John had lost Normandy the English baronage had become as national in spirit as the commons.

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  • The nation, however much it might murmur, would never have been willing to rebel against a sovereign whose only fault was that he occasionally pressed his prerogative too far, Edwards rule was seldom or never oppressive, the seizure of the merchants wool in 1297 was the only one of his acts which caused really fierce and widespread indignation.

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  • They had shaken the grip of the English on the north, and reconquered a vast stretch of territory, but they had failed by their own fault to achieve complete success.

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  • The judges who had given obnoxious decisions were called to answer for their fault and were taught that they were responsible to the House of Commons as well as the king.

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  • Those members who stood out were, indeed, bought by a lavish distribution of money and coronets; but the advantages to Ireland which might reasonably be expected from the Union were many and obvious; and if all the promises held out by the promoters of the measure have even now not been realized, the fault is not theirs.

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  • The fault of the government lay, not in taking vigorous measures for the suppression of these disorders, but in remaining obstinately blind to the true causes that had produced them.

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  • The great fault is the neglect of the vast quantities of state papers in the British Museum.

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  • That they'd ally with the dishonorable Yirkin was his fault; his affront at taking Kiera from them was enough for them to overcome their distaste at dealing with the Yirkin, whom they viewed as even less civilized than the Anshan.

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  • She asked for it—it was her fault!

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  • He wanted to curse Elisabeth and blame her for the whole mess, though he knew it was entirely his fault.

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  • If he was having problems finding a virtuous mate, fault more likely lay in a character flaw than his looks - as Katie had so often implied.

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  • Jeff does kind things for people, sometimes to a fault, but he seldom talks about it.

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  • He was the most adamant about this need for someone to be at fault.

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  • Through no fault of mine I am now looking for my 3rd home at the ripe old age of 9 months.

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  • The fault has finally been remedied by replacing the old copper anode by a new one.

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  • For in the latter, liability is probably strict, whilst in the former, it is certainly arguable that fault must be established.

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  • In the case of unchecked baggage, the carrier is liable only if at fault.

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  • The island lies across the Highland Boundary Fault noticeable at Loch Fad that almost bisects the island.

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  • It is really a fault zone bounded by two major faults and filled with a well cemented fault breccia.

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  • This is caused by dirty hydraulic components or a fault in the sliding member (cone clutch ).

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  • I could find no real fault with it so I would heartily commend it for use.

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  • Upon receipt of the fault report, the Company will take all proper steps without undue delay to correct the fault.

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  • Often the additional insight provided by an accurate process model is required in order to make an accurate fault diagnosis.

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  • Operators at the plant also now have access to a comprehensive diagnostic package, which minimizes downtime thanks to targeted fault diagnostics.

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  • If you still have no dial tone, please contact BT Residential on 0800 800 151 and report the fault.

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  • Who had been severely disfigured in a car accident that was the fault of a drunken driver.

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  • Its simple earthiness is difficult to find fault with.

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  • This is a fault of design where little attempt is made to identify the end-user 's conceptualisation of the information space.

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  • Solution Fitting a new temperature sender should rectify this fault.

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  • A description of the problem you are having will also help to diagnose the fault.

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  • I was really taken aback when I discovered a relay problem causing an intermittent fault on receive!

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  • An electrical fault started the blaze, which gutted the shed.

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  • The Highland boundary fault separates the metamorphic bedrock of the highlands and the old red sandstone underlying the lowlands.

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  • I mean, is it the scriptwriter's fault that Trevor can only do ominous malevolence or should they write him accordingly?

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  • If he has a fault he is inclined to believe the advice that he is given from faceless civil servant mandarins.

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  • It's not his fault it was completely misinterpreted.

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  • Non Fault Accidents involving an uninsured or untraced motorist.

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  • Birthday Card Gallery Fault Gallery Updates Let's face it, I'm only a household name in my own home.

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  • However, due to a mechanical fault on their launch they actually arrived onboard at 1100.

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  • I regret that some of the contributed news is now out-of-date, which is not the fault of the original authors.

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  • Of course, people are quick to find fault with the original poster, but, for them, your post is just peachy.

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  • For example, to establish the fracture history or fault zone permeability.

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  • The Johnson's were good people and it wasn't their fault their son was a little pervert.

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  • At 023 049, a large fault is observed, trending approximately N-S, which juxtaposes shattered quartzite against shattered quartzite.

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  • More like a midnight, street corner karaoke rendition of ' My Way ' than ' My Fault ' .

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  • A sketch map by Barbara Nuttall of medieval Thornhill shows Deadman's Lane climbing the fault scarp of the Edge.

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  • In this case two of the fault classes were linearly separable, whilst the third was not.

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  • The syringe pump was found to have a fault caused by an electrical short circuit.

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  • Singapore The most obvious design fault is the small size of the text used throughout the site.

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  • The fault was finally traced to slipped timing and a beaming smile once again shone from beneath Douglas ' wrinkled brow.

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  • In the filthy January weather, the new X5 feels sure-footed to a fault.

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  • If we are not able to measure up to this height, then surly the fault lies with us and not with the teaching.

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  • Well, it's not always the lab technicians ' fault.

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  • These fault timesheet timecard conditions are normally masked with a standard junction box allowing operation with measurement errors.

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  • Identify the key aspects of fault tolerance in networks.

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  • Challenges include improved tribology, condition monitoring, fault tolerance and self-diagnosis and repair.

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  • He states that in the case of persistent truancy, it is the system which is at fault, not the pupil.

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  • The fault, however, lies in what goes unsaid.

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  • So if you have been involved in an accident which was not your fault and have whiplash as a result, contact us!

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  • His fault cannot have been very serious, for he was shortly afterwards (he had in the meantime settled in Pesth) appointed by Count Hunyady to be his deputy at the National Diet in Pressburg (1825-1827, and again in 1832).