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- noun Alternative spelling of
fault line .
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Examples
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This was a persistent fault-line in the New Labour years.
LabourList: Moving on from Blair: British Labour selects new leader LabourList 2010
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This was a persistent fault-line in the New Labour years.
LabourList: Moving on from Blair: British Labour selects new leader LabourList 2010
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A brittle regime with a primitive personality cult and a deadly fault-line between its Alawite rulers and Sunni majority responded with heavy-handed official terror.
Syria: Where Massacre Is a Family Tradition Fouad Ajami 2011
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This was a persistent fault-line in the New Labour years.
LabourList: Moving on from Blair: British Labour selects new leader LabourList 2010
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A brittle regime with a primitive personality cult and a deadly fault-line between its Alawite rulers and Sunni majority responded with heavy-handed official terror.
Syria: Where Massacre Is a Family Tradition Fouad Ajami 2011
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Part of OPEC's credibility problem is the fault-line that has opened up between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
OPEC Rift Gives Rise to Doubts, Price Fears Guy Chazan 2011
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Far from being his side's fault-line, Hartley helped force Wales to crack.
Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener 2011
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There's a widening gap between the haves and have-nots in America -- and this time the fault-line is marriage.
Christine Whelan: The New Marriage Gap: Does Education Predict Conjugal Success? Christine Whelan 2010
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The situation had been under control in part due to the presence of former IRA and Sinn Fein figures who, along with the police, had attempted to keep the peace on the sectarian fault-line.
Sectarian clashes erupt again in east Belfast following Orange Order march 2011
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The situation had been under control in part due to the presence of former IRA and Sinn Fein figures who, along with the police, had attempted to keep the peace on the sectarian fault-line.
Sectarian clashes erupt again in east Belfast following Orange Order march 2011
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