The amendment aggravated a long-standing fault line within Turkish society; while portions of the population supported the liberty to wear the head scarf, others feared that the change endangered Turkey's secular ideals and could lead to increasing pressure upon those women who choose not to wear the garment.
"Marginalised, deprived of basic political and economic rights, trapped in the camps, bereft of realistic prospects, heavily armed and standing atop multiple fault lines," a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Lebanon recently observed, "the refugee population constitutes a time bomb".
"It's my fault for standing in front of you," he said, forgivingly.
While Mr. Blair spoke as if the Taliban were doomed, he said it would be the Taliban's own fault for standing in the way of justice for Mr. bin Laden.
The private motor insurance market in the UK was estimated to be worth £9.4 billion in 2010, with the cost of third party property damage, including repairs and replacement vehicles to not-at-fault drivers, standing at around £1.4 billion.
"It's all Gorbachev's fault," says Georgui Nossan, standing in a field minding his cows, halfway between Simferopol and Sevastopol.
In trying, perhaps unconsciously, to exonerate himself among his persistent liberal critics, Clinton reminded even sympathetic voters of the qualities that had made him seem maddeningly incapable of standing on principle or admitting fault.
When I'd complain that it was my sister's fault for not standing her ground, she would reply, "Wouldn't you get out of the way if you saw you coming?" My mother knew who I was before I did.
While it's always discouraging to have a peer cross the picket line you're standing on, it's hard to fault those who are reluctant to protest.
McGinley was modest to a fault, insisting he was standing on the shoulders of giants in merely refining the template minted by Tony Jacklin and refined by those captains he had played under and accompanied as an assistant.
