Faults in a sentence

Strike-slip faults occur when rock units slide past one another, normal faults occur when rocks are undergoing horizontal extension, and thrust faults occur when rocks are undergoing horizontal shortening.

Whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults in this life and the next.

Movement along faults can result in folding, either because the faults are not planar or because rock layers are dragged along, forming drag folds as slip occurs along the fault.

The alternation between these half-grabens occurs along transfer faults, which trend across the rift to connect the major basin-bounding faults and occur between basins or, in places, within basins.

Therefore, if each of the three fences in a triple combination were knocked down, the rider would receive 12 faults (4 per fence, instead of 4 faults for the entire obstacle.

With many virtues, public and private, he had his faults; but his faults were superficial.

After Kif becomes fed up with Zapp's leadership faults and reports him to the PlayStation high command, the comically problematic Zapp is stripped of his command and forced into mandatory training to adjust his behavior.

And then there’s getting out of bed in the morning… And the design faults; you might have the time and inclination to do what you’d like to do, like drink, sleep all day and fornicate, but the body’s a determined refusenik.

Any additional faults reported this morning, engineers are also attending to as normal.

As a country, the year 2022 has gone down in our history as the year our university students stayed at home for eight months for no faults of theirs.

As long as the starting roster can remain healthy and maintain until the bench rotation returns, the Cavaliers will eventually overcome their faults and reclaim a spot at the top of the Eastern Conference.

Bredell thanked Eskom for working 24/7 to rectify faults and repair damaged infrastructure caused by the severe weather.

But he also faults himself for not pushing The Post harder to explain to readers its own effort — and inability — to corroborate the dossier’s most significant claims.

Describing the machine as “incredibly sleek and streamlined,” our tester couldn’t find any faults with the fuss-free appliance.

Disappointed viewers found faults with everything from the acting performances to the disturbing nature of the film’s later scenes, but one of the biggest criticisms among fans was the confusing and abstract premise.

During the interaction, Muhammed faults Obi's post-election tactics of seeking redress in court on the one hand and inciting people to violence in another hand.

Each drill hole in this target area intersected re-activated basement faults, up to 30 metres in width, consisting of clay gouge and breccias within variably graphitic pelitic host rocks.

For all of its faults when taken to excess, the traditional masculinity of which he claims to be a champion would demand that he stand firm against a howling mob.

He has his faults – if he didn’t then he wouldn’t be playing in League Two – but the argument that he doesn’t care, is going through the motions and is lazy is wrong.

He said testing and commissioning is considered a "high-risk" part of the project, and that they're anticipating "faults and issues" that will take an "unpredictable" amount of time to rectify.