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The recent earthquake in Haiti makes us, placed as we are on another of the great faults of the western hemisphere, take pause and think about the fragility of life and the suddenness of disasters like earthquakes.
This aquifer of great extension occupies the major part of the tectonic depression, limited at the West and at the East by two great faults of NW SE orientation.
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That is the great fault of postmodernist historiography: it cannot distinguish past from present or future.
The great fault of the dibblers is, that they put too many seeds in each dibble hole: if the seed is good, three or four grains, at most, are sufficient; of these one or two only will take the lead, and form the tuft; the others will be overpowered by the more vigorous.
In Le Monde, Noémie Luciani regrets the heroine's lack of ambiguity and of ambivalence: "The great fault of her cause is to have imposed herself on her own: no preliminary choice, no temptation to lose herself or to betray herself".
Narrow-mindedness is a great fault of reasoning that all must strive to avoid.
It's reasonable, I think, to invoke Dr. Johnson here, Samuel Johnson, who writes in his Life of Milton that Milton's (I love this) unskillful allegory appears to be one of the greatest faults of the poem.
Unfortunately for him, a propensity for fraud is hard to get away with when your job is to look after other people's money whatever the greater faults of others.In this section Thieves in the night Crowded waters Off the rails Perfect storms For the person who has everything… It's behind you!
Often the greatest fault of these teachers lies not in their pedagogical approach but in their refusal to yield to the unreasonable dictates or mercurial personalities of the principal.
The $87bn in federal loans that the Obama administration extended to GM and Chrysler, located just up the road in Toledo, have provided one of the great fault lines of the election this year, with Obama presenting himself as the savior of the auto industry and Romney on the defensive.
Dick-Read described a potential elicitor of the circle of pain, tension and fear: "It is not infrequently initiated by the two great faults in care of women: loneliness and ignorance".
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