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In other words, Hiatt finds fault with himself and his organization for saying the right thing, but not loudly enough.
In his now famous thesis on the "Clash of Civilizations" he gave Turkey as an example of a " torn country," one divided internally, according to him, between East and West, a country neither in Europe nor in the Middle East, with a fault line running within rather than at the border.
The recent bombings in Istanbul underscore, once again, the importance of Turkey's overcoming Huntington's fault line to emerge firmly as a prosperous, secular and stable democracy.
Media owners and managers are also at fault for poor quality.
We cannot use System II to fault this preference.
Of course, politicians are not the only people at fault here.
And, as if this were not enough, another menacing fault line has appeared along the former Iron Curtain, with governments of formerly communist countries openly defying the spirit of solidarity that used to characterize (at least in theory) the European project.
The last thing anyone needs is a tit-for-tat process of political divorce that only serves to deepen the global economy’s already-widening fault lines.
Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau’s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.
This is largely, though not entirely, the fault of the European colonialists who, in the death throes of their own empires, created artificial states ripening for dissolution.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the fault lies in the fact that those who need help are regarded as inferior, and lack the power to initiate change.
The decline in lifetime spending will ultimately have a negative impact on growth and potentially generate social fault lines for the coming generations.
I also fault Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders for failing to speak strongly enough against the US-led wars in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hu, by contrast, seems to find little fault with the status quo, under which the Party remains in charge of not only government, but also state enterprises.
Unsuccessful firms are tossed aside to make way for new and better firms, and individuals who become economically less productive (often through no fault of their own) can also be "discarded" by the market, their careers interrupted and their investments cut to a fraction of their previous value.
Nevertheless, highlighting Obama’s ability to get things done abroad is more than an attempt at distraction; it also sends the message that the domestic-policy impasse is not his fault.
Greeks and others may fault him for pursuing his agenda with too little politesse while in office.
The performer explains that the deficit is all the fault of congress for not cutting spending and that the only way to tame the beast is to raise the budget deficit because “Congress can’t spend money it doesn’t have.”
Indeed, Greece’s current plight, including the massive run-up in the debt ratio, is largely the fault of the misguided troika programs foisted on it.
Meanwhile, the European economy remains moribund, with the Italian fault line threatening to send shockwaves through Europe.
It straddles every fault line: between country and community, between security and openness, between national and European identity, between social values and economic or strategic interests.
Britain in the WildernessLONDON – Europe is once again divided between East and West – only this time the fault line runs through the European Union.
The fault, to paraphrase Shakespeare, lies not in the stars but in China’s own financial markets.
As J.D. Vance noted in his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, many on the American right now believe that “it’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
When we ask politicians to explain these deplorable results, they reply in unison: “It’s not our fault.”
Wherever demographic growth outstrips economic growth, the fault lies primarily with corrupt and inefficient regimes and the obstacles they put in the way of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
The two tectonic shifts in the global economy – slower GDP growth and increased emerging-market competition – have created a fault line that runs through Europe.
And, with the eurozone’s most debt-burdened economies bearing the brunt of these shifts, Italy is sitting directly atop the fault.
In the “Brexit” vote, the fault lines were clear: rich versus poor, gainers versus losers from trade/globalization, skilled versus unskilled, educated versus less educated, young versus old, urban versus rural, and diverse versus more homogenous communities.
The same fault lines are appearing in other advanced economies, including the United States and continental Europe.
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