Sentence examples for the principal fault from inspiring English sources

Needless to say, the principal fault in both cases did not lie with officials – the failure of No 10 to assert its will over two obstreperous secretaries of state was a far greater problem – but they both illustrate the mismatch between the need for swift action and the reality of constipated decision-making within Whitehall.

The principal fault strand is located on the western edge of the broader fault zone and is associated with a narrow valley.

In a high-resolution small-scale seismic experiment we investigated the shallow structure of the Wadi Araba fault (WAF), the principal fault strand of the Dead Sea Transform System between the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat and the Dead Sea.

At pressures of 12 and 20 GPa, the structure consists primarily of dislocation cells; at 40 GPa, twinning and stacking-fault bundles are the principal defect structures; and at a pressure of 55 60 GPa, the structure shows micro-twinning and the effects of thermal recovery (elongated sub-grains).

Magnetization lows above the rim of Volcano #1, therefore, is interpreted to indicate hydrothermal activity along the principal ring fault.

Magnetization lows occurring along the structural rim outline the area of collapse guided by the principal ring fault.

The acoustic basement may get deeper toward the caldera rim that marks the site of the principal ring fault.

Most P.G.A. teachers have spent so many hours watching amateurs swing a golf club that they can eye you for 30 seconds and figure out your principal fault.

Its principal fault lies in Aurenche and Bost's desire to do justice to the book's big set pieces — a fight among women in a washhouse, a wedding dinner that devolves into anarchy — which make the film seem a bit blocky and static.

Geologically, the hydroelectric installation is located in the Higher Himalayan Crystalline, just above the active Karcham Normal Fault, which is reactivating the Early Miocene Main Central Thrust, one of the principal Himalayan faults.

Officials of the principals' union faulted her for dealing primarily with superintendents -- the layer above principals -- and not doing enough to cultivate lower-level administrators in the schools.