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This is our fault – and it is our responsibility to fix it.
The new administration used its initial economic success and the politically convenient story that the country’s problems were the fault of foreigners to backslide on its promises.
But the meritocracy we have is an untrustworthy arbiter of individual worth, given how much it discriminates against those who, through no fault of their own, are not prepared to fulfill its criteria for success.
A clear reminder that the fault lines of disunity still run deep is the recent sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman by a Muslim Sharia court in Nigeria's northern region.
The small number of schools, the poor condition of buildings, and the collapse of relationships between students and teachers is also at fault.
It isn’t Facebook’s fault if they failed to read the fine print.
But, beyond slogans, there is an underlying fault line between those who have the cultural capacity to embrace change and those who resist it by adhering to traditional ideas about how one's life and, by extension, society, should be organized.
The civil war in Syria, meanwhile, has inflamed the Sunni-Shia fault line that traverses the entire region, and that defines, for example, the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
After all, Syria is situated on a national, sectarian, regional, and geopolitical fault line, where the strategic interests of Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon confront those of NATO, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan.
He did not create the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it is not his fault that conducting foreign policy is far more difficult in today’s fragmented world than it was during the Cold War.
The fault was not only in the magnitude of the tax cut, but also in its design; by directing the cuts at upper-income Americans, it provided little economic stimulus.
Simply put, talk of “Brexit” has exposed Europe’s economic and political fault lines – and there is no going back.
The IMF has also put in place a Flexible Credit Line to disburse funds quickly – and free of onerous conditions – to countries buffeted by financial crosswinds through no fault of their own.
So the lure of Russia begins to be appealing, particularly as, yet again, a painful economic squeeze is approaching through no fault of the people here, and Bulgarians are resentful.
Indeed, the debate revealed political fault lines among Chinese intellectuals that could never be openly exposed on domestic policy.
It will come – probably quite suddenly – as soon as enough people recognize that May has, through little fault of her own, inevitably failed to “get the best deal for Britain.”
Turkey’s pro-Western forces find just as much fault with their country’s political system as the European critics, but they expect the prospect of EU membership to accelerate the progress of reforms.
Men will battle for their beliefs, cultural and religious identity; conflicts will occur on the fault lines between civilizations, particularly between Chinese, Islamic, and Western civilizations.
Those who argue that the surge (and its close companion, new and improved “counterinsurgency”) overcame Iraq’s sectarian fault line suggest that Iraq’s ongoing political problems are the result of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s poor governance.
After just one year in office, the man who had promised transformational leadership became a “transactional” leader – pragmatic to a fault.
This is not entirely Russia’s fault; but now the dialogue will have to be restarted, practically from scratch.
Now, geologists say, the fault that triggered that tsunami is most likely to rupture farther south, putting low-lying coastal towns like Padang, with a population of 900,000, at high risk of a major earthquake and tsunami within the next 30 years.
In the end, we need to acknowledge the outliers – the people who got diabetes by chance, not by fault.
That’s not the WEF’s fault.
But the real global fault line is the Italian economy, which has not grown for nearly a generation.
The reality, as a latter-day Caesar might put it, is that the fault is not in our trade partners, but in ourselves.
Recent debates in the UK illustrate the emerging fault lines.
It is past time for these modest changes, because the Asia/Pacific region's many fault lines affect the interests of the world's great and emerging powers in fundamental ways.
Of course, it is up to Ukrainians to defend their democracy, but Europe is at fault as well, because the EU lacks a grand strategy toward the East.
If the region’s currencies were overvalued, inviting speculation on devaluations, it was more the fault of Japan's stagnation and the depreciation of the yen than of their own policies.
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