But the changes opened up fault lines which the scandal has widened.
What some allies see as a re-emerging Russian threat throws up other fault lines as well.
He may have saved one break point on his serve but the pressure seemed to mount as he dished up a double-fault to lose the game.
When Democratic Gov. Gray Davis was recalled a few years ago and replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, instead of galvanizing the state party, it revealed the cracks and fault lines up and down the state.
However, for the past few weeks it has been lit up after engineers fixed the fault and ran a reduced light display.
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The current plan for Blueberry is to come back up the hole and sidetrack again to get around the nonconformity or fault that seems to have not shown up on the seismic data.
His pick-up truck had apparently developed a fault in Angoor Adda, near South Waziristan's main town of Wana.
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In a tough economy, for example, it may not be your fault for being down, but it is certainly your fault for not getting up.
Instead of criticising diaspora Jews for standing up for Israel, you should fault the rest of the world for lacking the courage to do so.
The political parties are battling fiercely over defining the location and terms of the new fault line, opened up by Labour's Johann Lamont last month, as she questioned whether services should be provided free to all, or scarce resources targeted by requiring the better off to make a financial contribution.
So, in these days of women empowerment, no-one can fault their spouses for setting up the AFLPM.
What we've seen in these last weeks is that we're also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation.
He actually looked up at Richard Ins (the chair umpire) and was like hey, the crowd's making a noise, can I hit a first serve, and Richard told him no, and he stepped up and threw the double, double fault.
Evans's fourth double fault put Przysiezny 5-1 up, and he duly served out for the second set - but taking charge of the game seemed to break Przysiezny's concentration, and inspired a mini-Evans revival.
But that is the fault of other disciplines for not coming up with ideas to rival, for example, agency theory or the maximisation of shareholder value.
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America's economic woes may not really be his fault: blame that on the bubble built up in the Clinton years.
And who could find fault with congressional direction that the President come up with a strategy to advance this goal?
Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, says the latest quake may have released only a tenth of the pent-up energy that has accumulated along the region's fault lines due to tectonic shifts.
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Sheila Coleman, of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said a misinformed minority of people still believed Liverpool supporters caused the tragedy, even though the Hillsborough Independent Panel said police and other agencies were at fault for the disaster and subsequent cover-up.
Moreover, as a concession to e-tailers, fed up with paying for charge-backs they believe are not their fault, it is switching liability from retailers to issuing banks.
Basically, this would be like a developer who is building homes along a fault line and only tests the durability of the construction up to a level 4.0 (light) earthquake when there is a decent probability that an 8.0 (major) may hit.
Here is an important thing to consider: when airlines cancel due to their own fault, such as a mechanical mishap or pilot scheduling screw up, they are liable for expenses their delayed passengers incur.
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Tsonga had the look of a man who knew the game was up by the time the first set had disappeared and his third double-fault of the day contributed to another dropped service game at the start of the second set, and it was the same story as he slipped 5-2 down.
Another glitch cropped up with a payment processing error that an Amex supervisor acknowledged wasn't my fault.
As Microsoft slowly leaves the legacy world behind in order to keep up with its rivals, a tension will be introduced into the market along a fault line I highlighted in a previous column: the x86-ARM divide, which falls at the bottom of the stack shown in the graphic at the top of the page.
Almagro was serving and up 30-0 when he made a series of errors, including a double-fault that brought the score to three games apiece.
On the double-fault, Murray had to stop as he was about to serve to pick up a feather that had fallen on the court.
So far, the fault has mostly affected home users, as many businesses in the region have back-up plans for such problems.
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