Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, was eager to fault Obama's performance as commander in chief during the pirate hostage standoff.

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Well, Carol did her best on Wednesday in her presentation to say the fault of her under-performance lay at the feet of Jerry Yang.

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Investment managers are not happy when, through no fault of their own, their investment performance suffers.

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Indeed, when he gave his first big press conference last week, his performance was solid to a fault.

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Ferguson's side put in a poor performance, with keeper Ben Foster at fault for the second-half header from Kenwyne Jones, which put the visitors 2-1 ahead.

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And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.

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Thirdly, converged infrastructures for cloud could get a boost through tighter integration between the hardware and OS, thanks to performance optimizations, better resource automation, and fault management throughout the stack.

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The ITF rejected Koubek's defence of no fault or negligence, but it accepted there had been no intent on his part to enhance performance.

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