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Sentence Examples The average time between big quakes on this area of the fault is 140 years, which means that another could happen at any time, Nadeau said. Pacing is crucial, the set ups must be executed without fault, and the payoff has to be timed perfectly in order to give life to the humor. The only recorded fault on any of the machines in October was on Wednesday October 20 when one of the machines would not accept coins. Through no fault of the organisers, last year's River Festival was a total washout, with torrential rain and flooding. An electrician arrived in a ladder truck and fixed the fault before the storm abated. Likewise your warranty could be invalidated if something goes wrong with the car and the fault is traced to the chipping. These terminate abruptly to the northeast at a fault that offsets the thrust. The color palette is a bit washed out, faded, but I think this is the print itself, and not a fault of the transfer process. It distorts more and more every day of the month, every year, due to the slow effects of fault creep. What more is there to ask Candia McWilliam, someone whose memoir is already forthright to a fault? Kantrowitz may be at fault for focusing almost exclusively on a small group of black bostonians. And if a police officer is clearly at fault, police chiefs should not blindly defend that person. Attempts at reducing Red Band Society to a simple branding or logline have typically called it fault in Our Stars meets Glee. I feel guilty on their account, and again, I feel it's entirely my fault. Through no fault of his own, he won't be able to attend the meeting. After everyone else denied any responsibility, he owned that he was at fault. If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize. A fault is a serve that falls long or wide of the service box, or does not clear the net. If the second service is also a fault, the server double faults, and the receiver wins the point. If the injury is linked to a conformational fault, the fault is likely to be passed to the next generation. Show More Sentences Henman backed Lloyd, claiming it would be wrong to fault Lloyd and coach Paul Annacone for the team's bad performance over the years. Championship leader Schumacher finished second with a gearbox fault restricting him to fifth gear, having led the early laps. The Great Glen is a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The director in charge of torpedo development continued to claim it was the crews' fault. The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. An extensional fault may be seen as a crack in the crust that extends down at an angle to the vertical. Where rivers cross the fault, they often pass through gorges, and the associated waterfalls can be a barrier to salmon migration. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by up to 4000 metres and there was subsequent vertical movement. A complementary fault, the Southern Uplands Fault, forms the southern boundary for the Central Lowlands. Modeling of gravity and magnetic data along the fault has confirmed the presence of an extensive ophiolite suite. The models generated from magnetic data suggest that the ophiolite is only slightly displaced vertically by the fault. A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A fault trace or fault line is the intersection of a fault plane with the ground surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault. By definition, the hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below the fault. A fault in ductile rocks can also release instantaneously when the strain rate is too great. Slip is defined as the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a fault plane, and is a displacement vector. A fault's sense of slip is defined as the relative motion of the rock on each side of the fault with respect to the other side. The fault surface is usually near vertical and the footwall moves either left or right or laterally with very little vertical motion. Each is defined by the direction of movement of the ground on the opposite side of the fault from an observer. Show More Sentences Flat segments of thrust fault planes are known as flats, and inclined sections of the thrust are known as ramps. Synthetic and antithetic faults are terms used to describe minor faults associated with a major fault. Synthetic faults dip in the same direction as the major fault while the antithetic faults dip in the opposite direction. A fault that passes through different levels of the lithosphere will have many different types of fault rock developed along its surface. Radiocarbon dating of organic material buried next to or over a fault shear is often critical in distinguishing active from inactive faults. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by as much as 4000 metres and there was subsequently vertical movement. Gavin does not fault Scottie, but Scottie breaks down, becomes clinically depressed and is in a sanatorium, almost catatonic. Along the major thrust fault of the Variscan orogeny, there are over 30 thermal springs in Aachen and Burtscheid. When these bends or discontinuities are in the same direction as the relative motions along the fault, extension occurs. The reason the precise nature of the fault is still unknown is because there is little evidence of a continuous fault plane on the surface. Whose fault was it anyways that truck three got stuck in the ravine? The computer technician was able to localize the fault quickly. His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators. If his argument on this issue is found at fault, and the traditional division is vindicated, all other conclusions by Senior must be revised. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. I remember once when l was repairin' a fault on the Coolgardie line sixty miles out a thunderstorm came on. It was a boshter! I am pretty sure it's another computer glitch, but hey, it's not my fault and it's perfectly legal. This is the main fault in Baxter's metaphysics, that he so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous self-subsistents. The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law. In tennis, foot fault results when server's foot is placed outside the service area prior to the ball being hit. Show More Sentences He fouled his own nest. So by now he realizes it was his own fault and he had it coming. For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love? Only two exploration wells have been drilled so far, and there remain numerous undrilled targets in tilted fault block plays. He apportioned fault at 67 percent for BP, 30 percent for Transocean and 3 percent for Halliburton. The highlands are further divided into the Northwest Highlands and the Grampian Mountains by the fault line of the Great Glen. This was because the wave moved downwards on the eastern side of the fault line and upwards on the western side. As the rift evolves, some of the individual fault segments grow, eventually becoming linked together to form the larger bounding faults. The type of overstow described above is the most common type of overstow fault. The bathymetry of the ocean bottom is marked by fault block ridges, abyssal plains, ocean deeps, and basins. Scientific studies have concluded that an earthquake occurring along this fault zone could generate a significant tsunami. Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. In contrast, close to the FTFZ the terrain is more rugged and adorned with short, oblique fault scarps. The faults extend into the ocean with the Chain and Charcot fault zones, and have their counterparts in northeastern Brazil. The ferry had to remain docked in Penzance while engineers worked on the fault. The sculpture was destroyed by a fire, probably caused by an electrical fault, on 1 October. On the first flight an electrical fault caused a pair of first stage combustion chambers to pivot back and forth. The strike line of a bed, fault, or other planar feature, is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane. The fault moves regularly, which has destroyed buildings over the years, led to serious cracking of local roads, and disrupted utilities. Geological maps show not only the surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures. This fault continues southward under Almirantazgo Fjord and then below Fagnano Lake. Show More Sentences In the extreme south a major transform fault separates Tierra del Fuego from the small Scotia Plate. This fault system takes up part of the motion due to the subducting plates and produces large earthquakes. In June 1690, a massive earthquake opened a bedrock fault, forming a rift or a graben that permitted the water to flow into the Rio Branco. I hadn't pulled Mrs. Barstow's leg for any of that stuff, she had just handed it to me on a platter, and that wasn't my fault. As a general rule, someone who acted without mental fault is not liable in criminal law. In comparative negligence, the victim's damages are reduced according to the degree of fault. A parallel pattern sometimes indicates the presence of a major fault that cuts across an area of steeply folded bedrock. To the south of the fault on Clough Head are rocks of the Birker Fell Andesite Formation. When rocks on one side of a fault rise relative to the other, it can form a mountain. The most significant easterly fault described by Edward Hull throws the strata down to the east. A fault with a large horizontal but small vertical throw is found at Tyldesley. Motion along the fault including both shortening and extension of tectonic plates, usually also deforms strata near the fault. The more the underlying fault is tectonically uplifted, the more the strata will be deformed and must adapt to new shapes. Anticlines, structural domes, fault zones and stratigraphic traps are very favorable locations for oil and natural gas drilling. I hate to fault a play that so rumbustiously turns over so many brilliant ideas. The southern California portion of the coastline is a major transform fault, commonly known as the San Andreas Fault. A whole series of fault lines radiated away from this Lisbon earthquake, all of them shivering the structures of traditional order. If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk. If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Show More Sentences Geometrically, it is a cube being forced into a rhomboid by the fault. They were the fault of the lender, the borrower, and the regulator. Peugeot has said the side airbags were an optional extra and the fault did not affect the function of the airbag during an impact. I cannot fault the feminists and womanists who call these atonement motifs an image of divine child abuse. The concession is located on the Altiplano alongside the Coniri fault at an elevation of 13,000 feet. The annunciators provide audible and visual fault indicators, and can be upgraded to provide alphanumeric paging. Quibblers might also find fault with the book's incomplete treatment of the Safeguards Agreement. The accused's responsibility for causing death is constructed from the fault in committing what might have been a minor criminal act. Finding the key bed in these situations may help determine whether the fault is a normal fault or a thrust fault. A fault, the Hodnet Fault, starts approximately at the town, and runs as far as Market Drayton. This will include power factor, constancy of frequency and dynamic behaviour of the wind farm turbines during a system fault. Greenpeace did not admit fault, stating that a Kazakhstan doctor had said that the child's condition was due to nuclear testing. The exception is at any major offset in the bounding fault, where a relay ramp may provide an important sediment input point. Yell lies to the east of the Walls boundary fault, which is probably a northern extension of the Great Glen fault. A fourth fault helps create Gloup Voe, and there are some other minor ones. Erosion along the line of a geological fault known as the Campsie Fault has left tiers of rock representing some 30 lava flows which date from the Carboniferous period. Nevertheless, the majority could not find legal fault in the Order. On 26 December 1918 it burnt to the ground following an electrical fault. A high current electrical fault can create an 'electrical explosion' by forming a high energy electrical arc which rapidly vaporizes metal and insulation material. The illustration shows slumping of the hanging wall along a listric fault. Show More Sentences Much of the summit is overlain with peat and there is a fault to the south west, beyond which are greywacke sandstone turbidities of the Loweswater Formation. There should be an inquiry to find out whether it was the fault of the FBR or Audit Department and whosever was found guilty should be taken to task, he observed. Contemporaneous movement on the caldera's boundary fault has produced a thick deposit of breccia above the Helvellyn Screes and on Browncove Crags. Faults with antithetic slope directions linked in to a controlling fault, or periodic changes of dip in the controlling faults, give the impression of full graben symmetry. It is the fault of a government who have made a political choice. Subduction occurs along a fault, along which a hanging wall, or overriding slab is thrust over an overridden slab, also called the subducting slab. Listric faults are similar to normal faults but the fault plane curves, the dip being steeper near the surface, then shallower with increased depth. These segment boundary zones accommodate the differences in fault displacement between the segments and are therefore known as accommodation zones. And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation. Both the pursuit of objects and the overfeminization of men are at fault. We were witlings, untraveled in words, and like the ignorant everywhere, located the fault in what baffled us rather than in the puny scope of our own learning. It may also be related to the geometry of the underlying detachment fault and the varying amount of displacement along the surface of that detachment fault. More often, it's to make the other parent the bogeyperson and leave the step-parent and their partner feeling it's not their fault that the child behaves like this. It took 90 million years for the fault to grow to this length. In 1963 the existence of a transform fault near latitude 53N was first postulated on the basis of earthquake epicenter data by Bruce Heezen and Maurice Ewing. If a dispute settlement body panel rules that a government is breaking a WTO rule, then they must change a policy or even a law, if it is at fault. The eastern segment of the fault is complex and characterised by a series of seamounts and ridges separating the Tores and Horseshoe abyssal plains. The oil becomes trapped along with water and natural gas by a caprock that is made up of impermeable barrier such as an impermeable stratum or fault zone. Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island. This transform fault cuts right across Guatemala and then continues offshore until it merges with the Middle America Trench along the Pacific coast of Mexico, near Acapulco. Show More Sentences He gave me an unconvincing explanation of the fault, but I have my doubts. The Swartberg Mountains were uplifted along this fault, to such an extent that in the Oudtshoorn region the rocks that form the base of the Cape Supergroup are exposed. A normal fault may therefore become a reverse fault and vice versa. That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups. Alternatively such a fault can be called an extensional fault. Often the extensional fault systems are segmented in these rifts. The source of daylight is too high above the sculptures, a fault that is only concealed by the amount of reflection from the pinkish marble walls. We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. They found fault, listed 142 breaches of regulations, accused Chinese officials and executed some of them, and Kublai's new pacification commission was abolished. A variety of uniforms, worn by the officers at different tables, gave colour and distinction to a tout ensemble with which even Norgate could find no fault. The plane was already scheduled to make a stop at Abakan, but the touchdown was designated an emergency after the engine fault was discovered, Butenko said. Where a fault breaks into two strands, or two faults run close to each other, crustal extension may also occur between them, as a result of differences in their motions. But all evill of punishment ariseth from evill of fault and this evill of fault is from the creature itself, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it. Traditional Scottish counties which straddle the Boundary fault include Angus, Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire, Perthshire, Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray. The fault is that there is little discrimination in wage scales If jobs were more difficult to obtain and the girls were kept occupied, the problem would be solved. QoVox's Active Voice Quality Test System enables service providers to perform network-wide fault identification, fault isolation and voice quality service assurance. Swaziland lies across a fault which runs from the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho, north through the Eastern highlands of Zimbabwe, and forms the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. Examples from Classical Literature To-morrow the fault shall be corrected, and the swings that are made in after-hours now give fair promise of a great change. I was for going to Wiscasset, like two prodigals, own our fault, and endeavour to amend. When all diagnostic indications are at fault, the needle of the aspirator may decide the issue. I forgive you, if you are sorry for the fault, and my arms are ready to receive you. And whose fault is it that we do not get the good books and are flooded with the bad books? It was not Krishna's fault that he and Balarama were placed in Nanda's charge. His greatest fault was that he would not run out on a base hit, but on the contrary would walk to his base. If you have got bashed about pretty well since you came back, it's been all your own fault, and you know it. The Basuto scouts were magnificent in the open, but in the cover they were again at fault. For as for that which doth not, it is its own fault and loss, if it bereave itself of her light. To doubt is not necessarily a fault, but to continue in doubt is blameworthy. Rodenard, the blunderer, had been at fault when he had said that Lesperon had expired. The only fault to be found was with the Brie, which May seemed to think was not as flowing as it should be. Kind of top-lofty and condescending, but that's the fault of her bringing-up. It was the fault of your disordered brain that we wandered off on that bypath, but, thanks be to Heaven! After the incident of the birds and cage, my sagacity was for some time at fault. That they are not canonically and absolutely truthful is perhaps not their fault. However, the most carping critic could have found no fault with Edith's manner. Perhaps, in that characteristic might be found a clue to the chief fault in his nature. Then disappointed and vexed, Jack turned to chicory as if it was his fault. Show More Sentences Illogically, he felt it was all Bill's fault that he must endure this annoyance. The anticlinal fault of Charnwood Forest dates from a pre-carboniferous period. It has not the prolixity which is so common a fault of apocalyptic commentators. This is not the fault of Columbus, albeit we only have an abstract of his journal. He will think it a less fault than the tameness and abstractness, which are the besetting sins of deliberate composition. But the fact that some explanation is necessary is an admission of the fault. And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. I must find some fault with the statement which has been made of the events at Alton. It is a delight to atone for a fault by obeying your commands. The service you have done in discovering this atones for your fault. I thought I heard you finding fault with Augusta when I came in. If the bowel is at fault, constipation is the usual consequence. Her anger never lasted long, and having humbly confessed her fault, she sincerely repented and tried to do better. The great fault in Zinzendorf's character was lack of ballast. Now, sir, where's the good of your abusing me, as if it was my fault? His horse, accustomed to a more open country, was continually at fault. Now I shall be expelled from college and it is all your fault. Perhaps the Anglo-Norman fault had ramifications in the affected areas? Carlyle is a hero worshiper, and in Cromwell as a hero he can find no fault. We two were wholly out of chord, be the fault whose it might. Show More Sentences I will not punish your fault so severely as Alcibiades ventured to hope. But, you must know, bounder, that I have no fault to find with you. His fault as a batsman is, that he will be a slashing hitter. For it is not a fault, but a misfortune, to be born an atavist. It is not my fault, Bella, the opportune gentleman don't come! I am a wanderer and an exile, entirely through the fault of others. Police and the ministry said an engine fault caused the fire on the locally-registered boat Arion outside the port of Agios Nikolaos on the north-eastern coast of the island. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of fault? Words that rhyme with fault What is the past tense of fault? What is the plural of fault? What is the adverb for fault? What is the adjective for fault? What is the noun for fault? Translations for fault Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Faulks Faulknerian Faulkner Faulk fauld Faught Fault faulted faultfinder faultfinding fault-finding faultily 5-letter Words Starting With f fa fau faul