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The deepest fault lines emerged among center-right parties.
That is not just the media’s fault.
But Elop was not the only person at fault.
Who does Chirac think is at fault?
This system, which codifies Lebanon’s factionalism, remains a subject of much controversy, but, by ensuring that no group can govern at the expense of others, it also reinforces baseline stability in a country built atop powerful religious and ethnic fault lines.
After all, isn’t it the fault of the CDS market’s avaricious speculators that Greece was on the verge of default and that Greek public employees have had to endure deep wage cuts?
Asian economists who promote regional integration in Asia have observed the debate with amazement, in that the fault line is not based on economic philosophy like “Keynesians vs. Neoclassicals” or “Liberals vs. Conservatives,” but on a geographical, transatlantic divide.
Admittedly, this is partly India’s fault, because it has not created an equally congenial climate for foreign investment.
Don’t blame the leaders for appearing short-sighted and indecisive; the fault may lie with us, the public, for not listening to the worrywarts.
Developing countries are also at fault.
Is it the fault of the computer or the user?
Europe pretends to itself that this crime against humanity is no one’s fault.
Israel is most at fault for this failure, owing to its continued military occupation and illegal settlements.
An honest offer of engagement would allow Ahmadinejad’s pragmatic opponents to show that it is Iran’s president and his controversial policies, not the West, that are at fault.
Indeed, sectarian fault lines, together with the security forces’ complete fealty to the monarchy, seriously diminish the likelihood of peaceful regime change.
But, with Bahrain’s social fault lines too wide to bridge, the regime willing to resort to brutal violence to crush any uprising, and the international community prepared to look the other way, the protesters in Manama should be prepared for defeat.
Today, more than 130 million girls worldwide are out of school through no fault of their own.
Creating a viable regional security framework will not be easy, given the seeming intractability of many of Asia’s geopolitical fault lines.
Such a US declaration (if it declares Israel at fault) would give Palestinians the opportunity to declare the talks a failure and thus move toward a unilateral declaration of statehood in the hope that the world community will recognize such a state.
They never asked whether their fate was their Master’s fault.
But they will fault the US for not comprehending the larger war.
Media accounts highlighted Chinese leaders’ thoughtful forays abroad, depicting policymakers that were respectful of others’ opinions, willing to listen, humble to a fault, and reluctant to dispense unsolicited advice.
This is an election about social responsibility – a society’s obligation to support those who are struggling, through no fault of their own, to find jobs and make ends meet.
And, by ossifying Greece’s insolvency, while pretending to have overcome it, Europe’s establishment is demonstrating its dogged refusal to address the eurozone’s underlying fault lines.
According to this view, a protracted civil war can be expected, with the most probable long-term outcome being a permanent partition along ethno-sectarian fault lines.
Only this economic fault line may prevent Russia's governors, though they will likely shift even more power from the center, from completely dominating the federal scene.
Meanwhile, there has been little change in the US trade imbalance, indicating that America’s massive deficit is not China’s fault at all.
So, when the leaders of France and the Netherlands – pro-constitution to a fault – asked their people what they thought about the Union, they received a clear echo of their own message: the people did not like the reforms, and they did not like the “Brussels bureaucrats,” constitution or no constitution.
If it’s any consolation, he can find out about them on Fox News, where nothing is ever his fault.
Instead of actually doing something constructive about Europe’s essential problem --reforming expensive welfare states to ensure global competitiveness--Europe’s political leaders are hiding behind straw man arguments about “ultra liberal Anglo Saxon models,” and pressuring the ECB to lower interest rates as if European economic weakness were Frankfurt’s fault.
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