(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
(v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
(v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(2) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(3) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(4) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(5) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
(6) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
(7) People think it must be your fault that you’re in this position; it isn’t.
(8) Defense Mechanism Test applied to a subgroup of 20 patients suggested that high perceptual defense may be related to injury occurrence in patients at fault for the accident.
(9) Yes, if it helps kill the idea that autism is somebody's "fault".
(10) The SEM photographs demonstrated the faults which can be eliminated by the use of a stereomicroscope and showed also those which derive from the physical and chemical properties of the amalgam.
(11) He said the incident happened after Hookem told Woolfe it was his own fault he did not get his nomination papers in on time.
(12) The result is a very satisfactory isolation of the wound, eliminating faults in aseptic technique but requiring fresh sterilisation for each new procedure.
(13) Another issue that deserves attention is the impact on future generations, because biological faults introduced by the technique could be handed down from one generation to the next.
(14) I’m not someone to gloss over the BBC’s faults, problems or challenges – I see it as part of my job to identify and pursue them.
(15) Despite all these fault lines, China is not going to collapse; it is far too resilient for that.
(16) Proper provision of ground-fault circuit interrupter protection, particularly at temporary work sites, could have prevented most of the deaths from 110-volt AC.
(17) These achievements, and faults, will find stark contrast with Trump’s administration; certainly Trump’s nominations for key positions in his cabinet that relate to climate change have prompted alarm by experts and campaigners.
(18) Cameron did give ground by saying that "no fault dismissal" would only apply to micro companies and not to every employer in the country.
(19) The failures were mostly related to technical faults.
(20) These more complex units call for new methods of fault detection and diagnosis.
Plea
Definition:
(n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.
(n.) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
(n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.
(n.) An urgent prayer or entreaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(2) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(3) Over the next few days, I look forward to reviewing this guilty plea closely to see whether it appropriately holds officers, directors and key executives individually accountable and whether the plea will be sufficient to help deter similar misconduct in the future,” he said.
(4) On Monday this week a second witness came forward and supported key aspects of Ruffin’s version of events, including that police had ignored Dhu’s pleas for help over several days.
(5) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(6) He is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a detention hearing and will enter a plea on 6 January.
(7) A plea is made to label the stroma of malignant cystosarcomas as to the cell(s) of origin so future investigators may evaluate the effect of various soft tissue patterns on prognosis.
(8) A military judge still must decide whether to accept his plea.
(9) Two women, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have also been accused; one of these women has submitted three guilty pleas.
(10) What happens to those often effective pleas for privacy the PCC distributes?
(11) A strong plea for adequate immobilization (three to six weeks) after carpal tunnel release is made.
(12) The boys claim they were entrapped, but one is now expected to change his plea to guilty.
(13) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
(14) On the face of it, Huhne's guilty plea last month on a charge of perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case ought to have killed the Liberal Democrats' hopes of holding the seat.
(15) Ørnskov, who has been running Shire since May 2013, set out a plea to remain independent last month even as he admitted that he could not close the door on bids.
(16) A plea is made for legislative support to pay for lab work and the establishment of state or national laboratories equipped to handle evidentiary material.
(17) A plea is made for more accurate assessment of the disease status.
(18) The plea bargain agreement reveals that Blazer, who was general secretary of the North and Central American Concacaf governing body, began providing information to the authorities in December 2011 – more than three years before the US government charged 14 current and former Fifa officials with “hijacking” international football to run “a World Cup of fraud” to line their pockets by $150m.
(19) Bosch, who has been undergoing treatment for cocaine addiction since his guilty plea, was joined by more than two dozen friends and family members at his sentencing hearing.
(20) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.