Yet if Britain is closer to the exits than before, politicians do bear the blame in one important way.
We should not be so quick to quickly point our moral finger at a ghost cause, an external Doody Golem, forced to bear the blame for the killing of children in our schools.
We should not be so quick to quickly point our moral finger at a ghost cause, heap blame on an external Doody Golem, forced to bear the terrible blame for the killing of children in our schools.
In both cases, higher oil prices bear the brunt of the blame.
If shoddy drilling practices have poisoned tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans, as Donziger alleges, surely the owner of the business should bear some of the blame.
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In general, despite some heroic achievements, the relief effort must bear some of the blame for the unfolding disaster.
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It is 13 years since the Liberals last ran Ontario, so they bear no blame for the mess.
If that happens, then America's politicians will bear much of the blame (see article).
Rig operator Transocean and contractor Halliburton must also bear portions of the blame for the explosion and resulting spill, Lamar McKay said.
Their situation is getting worse and Europe's leaders bear much of the blame.
However, America must bear much of the blame for its failure to do anything to curb household and government borrowing and so boost saving.
Where there is inaction, institutional investors bear part of the blame.
Poor management is another problem, although Italy's politicians must bear some of the blame in their choice of bosses and their reluctance to allow the radical restructuring that the airline has long needed.
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You make out the Fed to be the total culprit in the financial meltdown, but I believe that the people in the Fed (DC and NY) should bear less than half the blame.
While structural market reforms and ineffective government policy clearly has contributed to the suicide epidemic, the claim that multinational companies bear at least part of the blame for these tragedies not only flies in the face of the evidence but is also likely to have perverse consequences.
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Defendants bear a lot of the blame for these settlements as well, however.
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Journalists and bloggers bear a lot of the blame here for being willing to publish third-hand-riffing on a translated quote that does not bear much resemblance to reality.
Some of this is rubbish and much is unfair (don't Arabs also bear some blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict?), but the indictment is widely believed and will hinder America's democracy project until Mr Bush has delivered statehood to Palestine and peace to Iraq.
Surely they bear at least half of the blame for the scourge of pre-marital sex?
It's easy enough to blame the bear market for some of the problems in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Neither party wants to take the blame for a recession or bear market when control of the government is at stake.
Mr. Saludo panders to the notion that, because some good (independence) indirectly came out of the war, the Japanese are somehow less to blame, and lightens the "apology" burden the Japanese deservedly bear.
Amazingly, a large number seem ready to put the blame on themselves, and, as if to show that they bear the retail trade no hard feelings, they wander off peacefully down the road to do their shopping at a nearby Tesco instead.
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There is plenty of blame to go around, as both government and opposition forces bear responsibility for the destruction and the collapse of security.
Most people blame the strains that recession, insane working hours and absent fathers bring to bear on the family.
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