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Sentence Examples In the same way, we cannot say which of the heatwaves were man-made and which were natural, but we can apportion blame for the change in risk. A whistle-blower last night said a dodgy computer system was to blame for sparking travel chaos. The Coroner said he believed Mr Stewart was in no way to blame for the accident. They have themselves to blame for putting their signatures to a document that was so evidently not ready for implementation. Perhaps it is time to wake up to the fact that there really is only one person to blame for all these happenings and that is ourselves. Galileo would not absolve them from blame for resorting to power when reason went against them. Even in the darkest early days of his reign as Down manager he never tried to offload the blame for defeat. In a train crash in 1990, the driver was held to blame for over-shooting a red light. Many motoring magazines are to blame for this fairly recent phenomenon of lights misuse, showing road tests of new cars with all lights ablaze. Frankie was to blame for all of this, the one looking back at me through the looking glass. She became another victim of the evil and false conviction that it is the one who is to blame for the accident who rushes the victim to hospital. Top politicians and the press try to claim that Loyalists and Republicans are equally to blame for the violence in Northern Ireland. The overall story, with its sometimes ludicrously banal dialogue, is solely to blame for this. A bankrupt political system has been a convenient peg on which to hang the blame for a consistently tardy response to humanitarian need. After all, if burning fossil fuels is to blame for global warming, it makes sense to burn less of them. The survey also found sales managers and directors were to blame for recruiting staff who would not be suited to their job. So we get a way to accept inevitable death, some good social rules and someone to thank or blame for it all. I don't want people to distort my words, nor baselessly go on attacking handicapped people and have me take the blame for instigating it. In fixing blame for the way the public appears to have been sold a bill of goods, don't overlook the part played by the media. The U.S. bears no small amount of blame for the U.N.'s toothlessness, but the rest of the world certainly is not absolved of responsibility. Show More Sentences But Kuo said that the blame for such disasters belongs on public construction projects that used ecological unfriendly engineering methods. It's time to place the blame for violence where it truly belongs, on the perpetrator and not the tool. The severity and frequency of weather conditions were to blame for the financial situation. As long as you don't steal milk from the same house too often the milkman will probably get the blame for not delivering it. Spectacularly inspired mismanagement by airline executives actually deserves much of the blame for the state of the industry. Of course, showrooming isn't the only force to blame for the pressure facing big box retailers. Any one person can win the game, his unfortunate momentary rival getting the blame for the inverse loss. Management must, however, be big enough to take the blame for this error in judgment. A lot of blame for the whole situation must be laid at the door of the parents of these young hooligans. Put another way, the audience itself will have to take the blame for promoting such songs. She was also setting him up to take the blame for a fraud at the firm where she worked. If the athletes have to take the blame for when they lose, shouldn't they get the rewards when they win? She had made false accusations against him, made him go on the run and set him up to take the blame for her frauds. If at least a few of them fail to impress you, we will take the blame for being incorrect. It is impossible to solve the safety problems when no one will take the blame for what has happened. They are wrong to conclude from this coincidence that economic growth is to blame for unhappiness. An electrical fault is believed to be to blame for the small fire which caused the meltdown. His father thought rats chewing through electrical wires may have caused a fault which was to blame for the fire. We have only ourselves to blame for letting the politicians give away power, in defiance of our constitutional rights. Dublin have only themselves to blame for the score that put a goal between the sides. Show More Sentences Also, in the letter, they ask who is to blame for the lack of maintenance of our roads under the last administration. Perhaps the blame for our fascination with the violent acts of unhinged minds should be laid to rest at the creaking door of the Bates motel. He was sent off for two bookable offences and was the player to blame for the penalty which put Preston in front. Farmers are always getting the blame for being unkind to the Environment, where in the majority of cases, the farmers are blameless. The way that anyone can change foreign policy is to get elected to office, so you've no one to blame for making poor decisions in your name. Hanging blame for the Northern Bank raid around the necks of the Sinn Fein leadership has clear political advantages for the taoiseach. After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship. Perhaps Carl Jung, New Ageism or popular culture is to blame for analyzing the magic of the mind into the ground. At the same time, the pernicious influence of new urban cultural patterns could share some of the blame for rural degeneration. Air crash investigators said engine failure may have been one of the factors to blame for the tragedy that unfolded near Hemingbrough. They feel that the books are to blame for unhinging his previously sound mind. I lay the blame for my initial hatred of Christmas squarely at the feet of my father. However, he did lay the blame for Saturday's defeat squarely on the shoulders of his defence. With the sigh of a man weighted down by a very large hair shirt, he accepts blame for making the mistake. Hence he has only himself to blame for what we are facing today and what future generations may regret tomorrow. Former Newcastle RNLI members have claimed that inexperience was to blame for the dramatic capsize of the town's inshore lifeboat. The root causes of crime are to a large extent social, and in one sense we all carry some of the blame for them. She said colleges should carry the blame for the dull way they taught catering. Alpha females should carry some of the blame for their unwanted single status. The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff. Show More Sentences A new survey has revealed that overbearing mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns. No matter who deserves the blame for the blackout, the reality is people suffered, and so did the economy. The conversation had not been going swimmingly, and I'll take part of the blame for the chilly turn. I don't want to place the blame for that on the council because they must act in the interests of the whole town. Deeply aggrieved members hurled abuse at the directors, innocent as they are of any blame for what has taken place. Chinese emperors used to issue a penitential decree taking the blame for misgovernment or natural calamities. Other observers say the premier isn't to blame for the lack of cohesion in the cabinet. When asked what is to blame for a less cohesive society, most respondents said that longer working hours were the problem. But the Council was split on what to do and who was to blame for a decade of inaction. He would take the blame for not fastening the lock securely, or perhaps leaving the boy unattended. The Cork referee, who was largely to blame for the incident due to inconsistent decisions throughout gave Gallagher the yellow as well. Are the press also to blame for feeding us this information, or do we have a right to know? He laid most of the blame for Friday's violence on infiltrators from the National Intelligence Service. Is the comprehensive education system to blame for making these teachers' jobs practically impossible? A top infotech executive has savaged his industry rivals, saying they have only themselves to blame for the cash crisis many of them face. Saval's defence was mainly to blame for this defeat after conceding three soft goals. But most recently, an even greater fiend has taken the blame for the current floodtide of filth. If not, you can expect more finger-pointing about who is to blame for the inaction. The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals. Meanwhile, it's the producer who takes the blame for the pointlessly animated, time-killing interactive menus. Show More Sentences Perhaps the performances are to blame for the material's flatness, but I believe there's little that could be done with this material. The truth is that France only have themselves to blame for the most pathetic defence of the crown in World Cup history. Therefore, while we are not always to blame for their behavior, we are correct to feel responsible. The British Foreign Secretary has claimed that Britain is to blame for problems around the world due to its past colonial policy. He even puts much of the blame for the successes of creationism on such evolutionists. We only have ourselves and our sweet tooths to blame for the eternal life of cupcakeries. Leblance also believes that a rise in cynicism may be to blame for lower interest in student journalism. Drivers have borne the brunt of the blame for their part in our high road death toll. Not all the blame for the sell-off in bonds and the resultant yield rises can be laid at his door. The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude. This discontinuance of activity is in itself not completely to blame for child obesity issues, but it does contribute. He does not accept that industrialised farming is to blame for the foot-and-mouth outbreak. The quality of the blank DVD-R used often gets the blame for the bulk of burning errors. But Smith repeats the unfair assertion, first made by Mulroney's errand boy, that the blame for its defeat falls squarely on other shoulders. He is demanding that he be fully exonerated by the Royal Air Force of any blame for the fatal crashes. It has become absurdly easy to frame whatever group is supposed to take the blame for an atrocity. It is the commander who is the first to take the blame for accidents. It is funny to see that the rats at various British intelligence agencies are already trying to avoid the blame for the lies told to the British people by Blair. Much of the blame for Enron's collapse has focused on the partnerships, but the seeds of its destruction were planted well before the October surprises. I am not hanging the blame for the disease on anyone at all. Show More Sentences If we forgive someone we must let go of anger or blame for whatever they have done, stop holding it against them, and act with love towards them from now on. Ever had a petty and vindictive boss, competent only at deflecting blame for his own shortcomings? And they said that the blame for managing foreign policy crises can hardly be heaped on the departing secretary. At Ballard Locks in Seattle, Washington, the animals are partly to blame for eating a local population, or run, of steelhead trout into extinction. The report said the blame for the tests not being carried out rested with official veterinary surgeons employed within abattoirs to look for suspect animals. We must do all we can to bring back a system where the person who is primarily responsible for his own misfortune must bear the full blame for that misfortune. Romney got the blame for trying, but none of the gains he extorted from the hapless Jim Lehrer. Chairman Elizabeth Blacklee told the annual parish meeting that personality clashes were to blame for a rift between a modernising faction and veteran councillors. The right-hander had himself to blame for his dismissal as he tried to play at a wide outside-the-off-stump delivery and only succeeded in edging to VVS Laxman at second slip. Most lay the blame for its lack of handling on the live rear axle. Lee put the blame for Gettysburg on himself, which was a rare and noble thing to do, then retreated, and kept on fighting. Now nobody wants the blame for what most consider a gross overreaction. The Government itself is largely to blame for this underselling. The two rulings are a triumph for hardliners at the interior ministry who lobbied for tighter controls on nightclubs that they blame for leading Thai youth astray. Many others certainly don't see it that way and are adamant that the late politician was largely to blame for having an eye for the vision but scant regard for the detail. Besides wasteful consumption of so much clean water, pollutants discharged by restaurants, beauty saloons and large bathing rooms are also to blame for contaminated water. Hayworth is attacking McCain for being a border-enforcement wimp who is partly to blame for the Krentz killing. The Government must carry the blame for big council tax increases. I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door. Teenagers have always been an easy scapegoat to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults. Show More Sentences In the latest episode of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kardashian whined about West receiving public blame for her bad outfits. Naturally, Republicans will try to lay the blame for staggeringly high levels of unemployment on the White House. Besides, if DACA were to blame for the influx, it would have happened two years earlier when the policy was enacted. The political class and the public discussion continue to point fingers and assign blame for joblessness on bad policies. But can the governments really have been to blame for inducing irrational exuberance in the bidders through the fiendishly cunning auction processes they devised? People seem to think we're here to drop everything when they need something, to take the blame for other people's bad behaviour and to generally take the role of dogsbody. In the case of pertussis, the blame for increasing incidence of new infections may not be entirely the fault of vaccine-deniers. Even the Chancellor is now pinning the blame for Britain's stop-go macroeconomic problems of the past on the foibles of Britain's property market. Clearly, something other than thimerosal is to blame for this troubling trend. The heavy-handedness of local officials has been partly to blame for increases in rural instability that in recent years have seen pitched battles between police and farmers. The Internet is as much to blame for the growth in gambling as more traditional establishments such as bricks-and mortar casinos, betting shops and bingo halls. He also liked to change his plans or decisions without letting me know and then, if something happened, put all the blame for the situation on me. The government has only itself to blame for this state of affairs. Not only is the grey squirrel responsible for the elimination of the red squirrel it is also to blame for damaging our woodlands and desecrating the nests of woodland birds. The college said that excessive shouting, singing and screaming was to blame for voice problems as fans became overexcited during tense England games. The blame for this year's debacle lies squarely with the organisers. The person to blame for all this is the anodyne British pop star Gary Barlow. But as you start building an apocalyptic bunker, don't forget who's to blame for this increasingly dangerous behavior. Pundits love to apportion blame for partisan hostility equally to both sides. It was astonishing yesterday that he pinned the blame for the attacks on Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader. Show More Sentences State officials, military and aviation experts in both countries hurried to shift the blame for the catastrophe. Vieira absolved any individuals of blame for the shocking defensive display in Munich, but revealed his frustration at yet another European campaign that could be thrown away. Guided by popular media reports, we may hastily conclude that doctors, by overprescribing antibiotics for people, are solely to blame for growing resistance. Chris risks his life to save Dixie, but later claims he only did it to square accounts with Dixie for his having accepted the blame for starting their fistfight. The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever. By contrast a search at 900 different locations failed to find any problems similar to the loose sets of nuts thought to be to blame for the Potters Bar crash. How ironic that the Hermit Kingdom is taking the blame for our first real look inside a clique that not even Vice dares penetrate. These nervous fluids often got the blame for human error and weakness. A century ago, miscalculation was greatly to blame for thrusting Europe into a conflagration. No more making everything a zillion times more complicated than it has to be, no more flinging blame for her mistakes every whichaway like so much monkey manure! Most of the blame for the cable's failure was found to rest with Whitehouse. Most of the blame for the defeat probably lies in the events of the battle. The canisters, McMahon said, are to blame for the conflagration. The actress said a nasal septum deviation is to blame for Burton's snores, but he won't undergo operation to fix the problem. Oral tradition of the affected tribes continue to claim that whites were to blame for the disease. Elizabeth knew that her own misjudgements were partly to blame for this turn of events. Linda blames Labour, so they must be to blame for the increase of food banks, hiving off the NHS and tax cuts for millionaires. Contaminated groundwater tainted with trichloroethylene is to blame for the toxic fumes, which are entering homes through their basements. The tarnished plant bug doesn't have anything else to blame for its notorious reputation. The Minister came across as an under-briefed, over-promoted placeman trying to shift the blame for the fiasco towards the quango. Show More Sentences The star is not entirely to blame for his hideous, hirsute transgression. This led the scientists to deduce that a protozoan parasite was to blame for the diseased jawbones seen in many tyrannosaurid fossils. A SPEEDING sports car driver was to blame for killing a home help and himself, a sheriff ruled. A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes. The Edinburgh tribunal found that Jeffrey, of Saddletree Loan in the city, only had himself to blame for losing his job. Feminist literary critics argue that the blame for the family feud lies in Verona's patriarchal society. Snider viewed Titania and her caprice as solely to blame for her marital strife with Oberon. They ruled out speculation that the heavy metal thallium was to blame for his sickness and also said radiation poisoning was unlikely. Meteorological officer Philippos Tymvios yesterday said warm and humid air masses were to blame for the last four days of warm weather. The bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal. Disraeli refused to cast blame for the defeat, which he understood was likely to be final for him. To a great degree, consumers are to blame for this gimmickry. Stop giving self-defeating TV interviews and accept some blame for defeats. She said that Facebook and WhatsApp are especially to blame for the secret contact between married couples, reported Masr Al Ekhbaria. It is often assumed that tourism is to blame for this, attracting newcomers to the area who can afford to outbid locals for available housing. A DEADLY head shop drug is to blame for last weekend's carnage at a music festival, experts believe. And to blame for their woeful misfortune will solely be the western powers that led them up the garden path with their notorious trickery and monkeyshines. The World Cup players took the blame for their performances. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill put Britain back on the gold standard in 1925, which many economists blame for the mediocre performance of the economy. Marcus Velleius Paterculus asserted that Octavian tried to avoid proscribing officials whereas Lepidus and Antony were to blame for initiating them. Show More Sentences Unrepentant Orange Order leaders last night continued to shrug off blame for the days and nights of violence which engulfed Belfast after a parade at the weekend. Initial indications were that human error, not maglev technology, was to blame for putting a maintenance vehicle on the track at the same time as the Transrapid train. The news article said that destocking was to blame for reduced sales. From now on no paedo, no rapist will ever be to blame for anything. Butcher was correct that the ref was not to blame for Hibs'display but Norris had a pernickety night, refusing to let the game flow and flashing cards far too readily. Martinez suggested afterwards that anxiety was to blame for the first-half disjointedness, and that pressure to achieve something this term could explain why. The Anarchist-eaters believe to have executed a master-stroke of Abderitism by turning national muttonhead and laying the blame for Anarchism at the door of foreigners. But they are not to blame for broken metatarsals and the like. However, both left and right deserve blame for infantilizing political discourse, undermining serious debate and drowning out reasoned conversation. Examples from Classical Literature My parents were to blame for all this secondarily only, as I think of it now. I knew all this talking was injurious, and I am much to blame for having permitted it. This fictitious correspondence of mine is to blame for the foregoing digression. Na, na, it's no the Waal that's to blame for the poaching and delinquencies on the game. The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics, are by no means to blame for these exercises. In May 1913, a woman, who was charged with drunkenness at the West Ham police court, laid the blame for her condition on her pipe. It was true that I had been to blame for taking the soldier's shako, but after all, he had commenced. How then can we be held in blame for the committal of even some desperate acts? He had heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself. To the mismanagement of the guides is attributed much of the blame for its failure. But they failed to satisfy Mr Ashford that they were not to blame for what had occurred. I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash, but I don't reckon him ornamental now, do you? When I am to blame for anything, alb is sure to be suspected. To English protectionism the chief blame for the refusal no doubt is due. It cannot be to blame for both, and, indeed, it is blameable for neither. In the frenzy, Qatar received much of the blame for the presence of the anti-aircraft missiles in the hands of the radical group. And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature. Low cabin pressure isn't to blame for the rare but dangerous blood clots that some passengers get during long flights, new evidence suggests. To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide. Many newsreaders and celebrities are, in my opinion, to blame for the mispronunciations. Show More Sentences For once, the government's political correctness is not to blame for the apparent unwarlike representation of the Canadian soldier. The Vermeer of Haarlem was to blame for this swollen catalogue. All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. The exponents of phrenology are themselves to blame for this. You owe it me, for am I not in part to blame for all this ado? Fire investigators established a Chinese lantern was to blame for the fire, which at its height was tackled by more than 200 firefighters. Dinna lat him suffer for my ignorance, whether I be to blame for 't or no. If lumen had been to blame for the quarrel, he paid a fearful penalty. The energy company has admitted blame for allowing a safety pipe to corrode so badly that it split wide open. The distrust that eventually leads to the bloodshed is not romanticized and the blame for early genocide is equally distributed between colonists and natives. Neither you, nor I, nor my informant, nor the man who informed him, nor the directors of the Porphyrion, are to blame for this clerk's loss of salary. The loss adjustor for the insurance company has accepted that plumber Trevor Wainwright carried out a faulty repair but is denying he was to blame for damage to the system. New research by RAC Auto Windscreens reveals that a reluctance to pay for minor repairs was to blame for more than half a million MOT failures last year alone. Regrettable as her position is, I cannot see that she is to blame for it. Find more words! 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