But the judge would not allow them to pass the buck to the auditors.
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And he accused David Cameron and Theresa May of "playing politics" with policing and trying to "take the credit for tough and correct action taken by the police while at the same time trying to pass the buck for any criticisms back to them".
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The ruling family has tried to pass the buck, dissociating itself and Wahhabism from al-Qaeda's global jihad, which it blames on Egyptian influences.
ThinkProgress, June 3, 2009: Last night on Fox News, Vice President Cheney admitted that the Bush administration deliberately decided to pass the buck on GM and let President Obama deal with the problem.
And even after the suspensions were handed down, adults still continued to pass the buck on responsibility.
When the state is the insurer and can change the rules to suit itself, after all, why brook any limitation on its ability to pass the buck?
There is absolutely no reason for an allegedly civilized country, particularly one as wealthy as America, to pass the buck on providing health care for everyone.
Surely, said some MPs, President Bush's insistence this was also partly an Iraqi plan was an attempt to pass the buck ahead of time and shift the blame if it went wrong?
And I think one of the things that I kept seeing the longer I was there was that there was this sense of entitlement that was bolstered by what we called helicopter parents - that were always there to smooth things over, to make excuses, to pass the buck.
He said the company, which has a base in Scotland and was established 38 years ago, had immediately accepted full responsibility and did not seek to "pass the buck".
He said the episode showed Sir Paul was prepared to stand up for officers who took a difficult decision, rather than pass the buck.
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