0 a fault (= a break in the earth's surface)
1 a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail:
They are effects that in turn reproduce the political fault line.
However, it is also clear that the rural-urban fault line will not be removed or redrawn at least within the foreseeable future.
Such an understanding of equality is essential, especially for transitional societies where inequality provided the fault line for violent conflict.
This is in fact the 'fault line' of the whole apparatus.
Of course, thanks to both rural and urban reforms, crossing the fault line is now much easier.
But it was not the only fault line in religious life.
This particular example is just one instance of a fundamental fault line in the study of the evolution of life.
The modern understanding of naturalization depends on this fault line, and is read back into earlier historical geographies only at the peril of distortion.
