| The nation needed to be united in its determination and could not afford to surrender to finger-pointing. |
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| In my high school, I was the target of much finger-pointing and whispering as I walked around the campus. |
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| There is a lot of name-calling and finger-pointing at the expense of issues. |
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| There is no need for us on the right to wring our hands about the finger-pointing that is happening in the media. |
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| As we used a few or our own fingers to point out yesterday, there is no lack of finger-pointing on behalf of this administration. |
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| And I must say the name-calling and finger-pointing and blame asserting is not constructive. |
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| I know there's going to be a lot of investigations down the road, a lot of finger-pointing. |
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| I think these are issues in which finger-pointing is really an easy reaction. |
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| On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes. |
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| Meanwhile, among partisans of the losing candidate, there is the consolation of finger-pointing. |
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| The commission's report will prompt finger-pointing in various directions, to little purpose. |
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| However, finger-pointing is not going to solve what is an incredibly complex issue. |
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| If not, you can expect more finger-pointing about who is to blame for the inaction. |
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| The finger-pointing and the blaming, perhaps that's a defense mechanism on Gary's part. |
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| John, the finger-pointing has really been going on for quite a few days, though. |
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| And that kind of finger-pointing explains why the sequester story will soon fade from the headlines. |
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| Internal bickering and finger-pointing plagued the team after it was eliminated from the World Cup. |
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| There was understandable talk of riots and retribution, and finger-pointing at any white face they saw. |
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| Time for the pols to cut the finger-pointing, and start offering plans to cope with a region in flux. |
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| Democrats did a lot of finger-pointing, but at the end of the day, enough of them did help unfurl the hose. |
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| Meanwhile, the finger-pointing and recriminations continue over the way the IPO was handled. |
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| Officers won't be finger-pointing and nannying but having some banter with the teenagers. |
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| An inquiry into the fishery focused on finger-pointing would obviously be counterproductive to achieving the aim of the inquiry. |
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| What we must all do is to work to remove them constructively through negotiation rather than resorting to finger-pointing. |
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| They're not interested in being nasty or finger-pointing or political. |
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| There has been speculation and finger-pointing, controversy and confusion. |
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| There's no fussing, no fist-pounding, no nay-saying, finger-pointing, whining or otherwise ungentlemanly or unlady-like conduct to be noted. |
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| With minimal finger-pointing, The Syrian Bride is a beautifully shot story that makes both sides of the conflict look equally bullheaded. |
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| And Washington could not have chosen a worse moment than now for a paroxysm of finger-pointing. |
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| Though monumentally long, it rarely drags, and today feels less like a finger-pointing exercise than a penetrating study of human nature. |
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| After the most recent Avicii meltdown, an avid finger-pointing game has gone wild on the Web. |
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| There are occasional trodden-on toes or bumped knees but no finger-pointing. |
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| Political finger-pointing has been the preoccupation, but action has been lacking. |
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| Second, don't reinforce the image of Democrats as unherdable cats by getting into a lot of finger-pointing or purges. |
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| When this is not done, the reinsurer may forfeit credibility when finger-pointing over ostensible exceptions. |
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| The special rapporteurs and representatives should exercise their mandates more objectively, without political finger-pointing at individual countries. |
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| Wilson's story is told in flashbacks from the fumbled 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and its finger-pointing aftermath. |
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| Upon arrival, many delegates said they feared the continuation of the finger-pointing and accusations that occurred towards the end of Copenhagen. |
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| But I am really disturbed that it will turn into some stupid finger-pointing blame game. |
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| Let us detach ourselves for a moment and talk to the Canadian people about what their priorities are, but not in terms of a continuous finger-pointing exercise with respect to corruption and so on. |
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| Laborious and complex, the talks have been dogged by finger-pointing between rich and poor countries over sharing the burden for curbing carbon emissions. |
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| The government's initial response to what happened in Benghazi, as exposed by recently leaked e-mails, does reek of evasion and inter-agency finger-pointing. |
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| I desire for us to take space when we need it, and have this communicated in a clear way, free from blame, attack, emotional blackmail, and finger-pointing. |
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| And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing. |
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| No doubt there will be the usual finger-pointing when it reports. |
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| I'm not surewhat ProfTallis thinks but it seems to me that this kind of accusatory finger-pointing represents one of the more distasteful sides of human nature. |
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| Cue an embarassing public-relations disaster of finger-pointing between her management, the fashion consultancy hired to source the dress, and the buyer. |
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