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In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack.

Often one to shirk personal accountability, Argente was more than willing to blame others for his shortcomings and mistakes.

Likening strong fluctuations in global currencies to a rollercoaster ride, Mr Wen said China was not to blame for that volatility.

It's easy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes taking place in our ever-changing world.

Afterward the poor man was as quiet as a mouse and said nothing at all, thinking that it was his fault, that he was to blame.

In her memoirs, Mrs Merkel might well say that Mr Cameron was to blame if it came to this.

It would be easy to blame the hospitals for shaking down their patients at the front door, but they have to grab money where they can.

Some people may be able to blame their beer bellies at least partially on genes, a new study out of Sweden suggests.

The injury was partly to blame for her split with Gutierrez in 2000, she said.

Despite the fact that the Sun has been virtually asleep, embarrassingly quiet, they are on cue getting ready to blame it all on the Sun.

For the fist time a generation of men appear to be accepting calmly that things are changing but there is not anyone to blame .

No doubt you will hear some tell you that journalism is in dire shape, and the triumph of digital is to blame.

Some experts have suspected that the adoption of a more Western diet may be at least partly to blame.

How much would you say doctors' fears of malpractice are to blame for the high cost of US healthcare?

Although this was the result of policy mistakes and global financial instability, Mr Kirchner preferred to blame it on "neoliberalism" .

You set your own boundaries, so don't even think about trying to blame others for your lack of productivity.

For that, politics is often to blame.

I really saw red when he began to blame me for the accident.

We only have ourselves to blame in that respect. Sometimes you need a bit of a break, and we never got the break we needed.

"When a man becomes grumpy or irritable, it's easy to blame work or simply the effects of aging, " says Petty.

Finance professors are not to blame for this, but they might have shouted more loudly that their insights were being misused.

By this time, it's easy to forget how much you used to touch, and to blame the distance on other things.

As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame.

It is often hard to blame Chinese athletes themselves for positive tests.

And excess liquidity (read: too much money chasing too few goods) is at least partly to blame for China's rising-prices problem.

But their efforts have proved that reform is possible, even in a city that has tended to blame poverty and racism for its appalling schools.

Such a man is too ready to blame others to blame himself.

If you want other people to respect you, acknowledge your errors rather than trying to blame someone else for your shortcomings.

He tried to blame someone else for the deficits. His lie did not work, however. He ended up in jail.

When our impulses get the best of us, a failure in executive control is often to blame.

"Quantitative easing is the whipping boy, but it is not clear how much it is to blame for the reallocation of savings, " he said.

Area Security has been a headache for property companies, as soon as a problem, owners are often easy to blame the property company.

really positive person. It would have been easy to blame my symptoms on a hectic schedule. But my family knew I had to get to a doctor.

The bank manager was really to blame, though he tried to put it on a clerk.

He said the government was partly to blame for the recent violence because it was unable to solve the nation's problems.

How much were MBA-trained executives really to blame?

They began to blame Moses and Aaron for taking them to this remote place where there was no food to eat.

We did what we could so far on this issue, Erdogan said. Bahceli is trying to blame the government for his internal problems, he added.

whether it was the cause of climate change or the fact of climate change, the size of the deficit or the culprits to blame for the deficit.

To blame Assange, or to try to drive diplomacy back to the days of fountain pens and carbon paper?

He did not blame his student, and even asked his family "not to blame the child since accidents are unavoidable for kungfu practitioners. "

Around one- third of those surveyed found the public at fault for paying attention and 12% said the public and the media both are to blame .

His wife found the child to eat the rest of medicine, why the disorder take medicine to blame stingy.

And I, is also a passenger, but I to be utterly ignorant of instinct drive, think of her car should be safe, so I have to blame the emu.

I start to blame loving you for how much it hurts. And then even these four days won't be anything more than something sordid and a mistake.

As for Mr Soros, he seems to blame all those who have not listened to him in the past.

However, for Hong, the dry spell is not the only culprit to blame for her fish-less lake.

Think of how much energy it takes to find reasons to blame the day's small problems on someone else.

The new study found that in a whopping 72% of cases, failure to perform the time-out had been at least partly to blame for errors.

The problem was, why should the thousands of you now watching this believe me when I say that, videogames were to blame?

But that may make it easier for him to fire Ms Lauvergeon, as it would be impossible for her to blame party politics for the decision.

insistence noun [ U ]: No one was convinced by her insistence that she was not to blame.

As if the butterfly flies only sea, nobody has the heart to blame.

I could not face my brothers, knowing that they were sure to blame me for bringing our father's cane down on their backs and legs.

It would be unfair to blame Mr. Van Rompuy for all this, as many seem to be doing now.

Inevitably, with so many lives affected -- from Hubei peasants to Shanghai glitterati -- people have begun to ask: Who's to blame?

The defense might also claim that it was the ratings agencies, not Deutsche Bank, that were to blame.

There is nothing wrong with you, you to the family, give your responsibility, you are a good person, life is to blame!

"The girl's beautiful, of course, " they were saying, "but she's to blame really for her seven brothers' misfortune. "

Finally the police summoned me for hours of questioning. They asked me to sign a statement never to blame the police again for its abuses.

There is no one to blame about her orientation, however, if it could happen, we would wanna see that our girls were together in the reality.

First you must accept he is not to blame in any way, and that around one in five four-and-a-half year-olds bed-wet once a week or more.

Asked about whether the U. S. was to blame for causing the economic slide, Obama said he preferred to look ahead, not back.

While it's easy to blame your parents for your thin hair or balding scalp, not all causes of hair loss trace back to genetics.

Undoubtedly it was also to blame for his isolation from the events and the mood at the front.

But a question emerges: Are the companies themselves partly to blame for some of the economic cost of the disaster?

China's cheap currency and vast trade surplus, which matches up nicely with America's gargantuan trade deficit, are easy to blame.

After failing to emerge from the fight for the bottom five grid positions in qualifying, Heikki Kovalainen said traffic was not to blame.

Everyone is to blame for her death, Matias, the police, child protective services and the mother.

As it is just a coincidence, no one should be to blame for it.

But that would allow Mr Ahmadinejad to blame outsiders just as he is about to incur the people's wrath by cutting petrol subsidies.

But it is hard to be optimistic about this particular recovery. Geographical variation is partly to blame.

Company failures were to blame as well, Zijin Chairman Chen Jinghe said in a 10-minute appearance late Monday on Fujian province television.

I put on quite a bit before I returned to Singapore and I have only my own gluttonous nature to blame!

Truth has been a rare commodity over many years, and your politicians have only themselves to blame for your lack of trust in them.

Mr Barro, for his part, seems to blame the Fed for holding down interest rates and facilitating government borrowing.

It also helps to isolate bugs; if the test for the helper fails, you know that it, not the aspect, is to blame.

When a relationship turns sour you can be sure that at least 1 of these 3 factors is to blame.

The hukou system, which helps to keep wages uneven by discouraging labour mobility, is at least partly to blame.

She was not to blame. She just own a Cancer's character. That was all for it enough.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for mots of the misunderstanding between them.

Volunteers who stayed asleep did not experience an increase, which suggests work-related stress is most likely to blame.

However, not everyone agreed that Vettel was entirely to blame, as he tried to defend his second place to the charging Kubica.

When things GO wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself. "I'm not GOod at this. " "I always fail. " He would say.

His death has nothing to do with you and you needn't to blame yourself too much.

Anger can cause you to blame others for your problems and you may feel like getting revenge on those that have mistreated you.

He has nothing to do with the matter, it is against reason to blame him.

It did not begin with the subprime disaster in 2007, nor the crash and burn of Lehman in 2008, nor are we able to blame any bubbles.

If you search your heart, I'm sure you'll discover that you are as much to blame as he.

Nonetheless, a case can be made that deregulation is to blame, at least in part, for the current misery of so many flyers.

At any rate it seems a little hard to blame Holmes and his Boston, especially as he loved the place.

Western populists will no doubt once again try to blame their own sluggish performance on "unfair" Asia. Ignore them.

Such a trend would be grim news for the US, but its financial policymakers have only themselves to blame.

I can only posit a theory, but I tend to blame the higher rate of mortifying sex scenes in novels by men on the nature of their fantasies.

How's this for a possible new culprit for breast cancer sufferers: they may be able to blame their grandmas' diets.

Even before the votes were counted, White House staffers had begun to blame the defeat on the local candidate.

'The impact of the global infotainment network on the individual is to blame, ' he said.

He said the dog, which was under medication, was not to blame.

You know I shouldn't like you to blame me afterwards and say I had forgotten ANYTHING!

When something goes wrong, it's usually very easy to find someone else to blame, but what does that really accomplish?

When things go wrong, the pessimist tends to blame himself. He would say, "I'm not good at this. "

Drogba has played his last game for the club and it would be easy to blame him, but this is counter-productive.

Sports medicine, not advertising, that was to blame for the myth, he said.

Will the elite try to blame the UFOs as the cause of these catastrophes (using a stooge of course)?

At the Zhong Yang county maternity hospital, also in Shanxi, there's a view that malnutrition is as much to blame as pollution.

Troublesome electronics and poor assembly quality were partly to blame, but a bigger problem was the unmistakable air of poor taste.

Coca-Cola played it safe, saying that it's a global move and that increasing cost is one of the things to blame.

Opposition politicians were quick to blame Kyrgyzstan's president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, for the murder, a charge denied by his office.

I am to blame, too. It is I that made the last decision. You need't be responsible for the matter.

Asia's growing economy and a demand for higher-end housing is to blame for a general price spike in housing throughout Asia.

They must have been gutted to not be able to blame Frank for the atrocious Andorra display.

US investigator says it is not enough for companies to be able to blame behaviour on outside contractors.

This tendency to blame teachers or administrators for all that happens in the schools is both unfair and unrealistic.

India's trade with its neighbors is less than 3% of its total trade. High intraregional trade and foreign-investment barriers are to blame.

They were inflamed by Japan's claim that the Taiwanese skipper was to blame for the collision, and by only vague expressions of regret.

"You've got a crazy mom looking for someone to blame for her problem, " he told the Morning News.

The Scottish Executive argues that Scotland is one of the unhealthiest nations in Europe, and smoking is partly to blame.

A man's efforts are certainly helpful, but if she's not achieving orgasm she has no one to blame but herself.

It is, after all, easy to blame trade imbalances on the evil exchange rate machinations of others.

Scientists do not understand exactly what causes the ailment, though a combination of genetics, stress and infection may be to blame.

When Rose grew up, she might have vastly different interests, and perhaps she, too, would come to blame us for adopting her.

And the moon is at least partly to blame for that cloudy outlook.

The United Nations as an organization was not to blame for the non resolution of the Cyprus problem.

Two, carry on like this, without a project or any planning and go ahead with one person to blame.

If I were asked to name the single most destructive expression of fantasy, however, I would have to blame the media.

They refuse to make excuses or to blame people. Instead, they look for ways to overcome obstacles.

So, for anyone who wants to use Race to the Top to blame or punish teachers - you're missing the point.

But Mr Gayoom's high- handedness seems as much to blame for the failings of the counter-terrorism effort.

In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage.

While this may be true, not enough adults realize that the kids are not the only ones to blame.

You might be able to blame your state of mind on the bugs in your gut.

But the operating company, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Company, is now saying its workers were to blame.

Given the deception practiced by Big Tobacco, how are the historians who work for tobacco attorneys able to blame the smokers?

We choose to blame ourselves or to blame others for the prevailing conditions.

I thought the technician was to blame for the blowing of the fuse, but I see now that I was mistaken.

Industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges were to blame for the river's declining health, experts said.

It is not a time to relax or to blame each other. Rather, we must learn to trust our leaders and stay united.

Ultimately, however, voters choose to blame the Republicans, and the president, Bill Clinton, is later elected for a second term.

Finally, it is wrong to blame journalists for trying to cover the attacks as closely as possible.

Mr. Pandit and his allies argue he isn't to blame for Citigroup's mess and that he has taken major steps to stabilize the company.

After the big problem at the factory, to save face . The company had to blame the machinery .

People are more likely to experience constipation as they get older, but the aging body itself is not to blame.

Mr. Green stood up in defense of the 16-year-old boy, saying that he was not the one to blame.

"We have to be careful not to blame one side or the other because both sides are guilty of this, " Mr. Labrador said.

The cause of our pain came to us from the outside; therefore, whatever force acted upon us in that moment was to blame.

But later she controversial, because it did not bear to blame for a while.

CATHERINE: Yeah. She was going to walk. I convinced her to stay. If anyone's to blame here, it's me, and I want this case.

In an age characterised by the death of trust we find comfort in being able to blame everyone.

I wish I could agree with Comment #2 that "you don't have to blame anyone at all" to conserve the environment. I can't.

It contends that just because someone dies after receiving a jolt, it does not necessarily follow that the Taser was to blame.

Now, celebrities caught snorting cocaine might also be able to blame their parents.

Consider how you feel when you wake up in the morning. If you wake up tired or achy, sore or stiff, your mattress is probably to blame.

And concerns have been growing that the concussions and other head injuries that are common in the NFL might be to blame.

America's unilateralism, he said, was also to blame for the world's economic woes.

Furthermore, he still held to his basic thesis that esotericism was to blame for the ills of modernity.

Later investigations found that faulty O-rings were to blame for the accident, in which all seven crew members died.

His postmortem showed he died of stomach cancer, but it has been suggested arsenic poisoning or over-zealous treatment was to blame.

I have been wronged, why do I pay so much, but each time did not even gain a little, I am unfair to blame God.

When things go wrong, the optimist looks for loopholes . But the pessimist tends to blame himself.

And for all of it, after a short time, she began to blame Miss Roscommon.

It is very unreasonable of you to blame me about this now.

There is only so long they will be able to blame the recession on the Bush administration.

They were received with great cordiality nothing seemed amiss on the side of the great house family, which WAS generally the least to blame.

You can't find objective reasons to blame for everything. Your carelessness was the main cause of this incident.

If those realities are not as you would like them to be, you have no one but yourselves to blame.

But it would be wrong, not to mention fruitless, to blame the Europeans and their choices alone.

After these big problems at factory , to save face, the company had to blame the machinery.

Just for this trivial matters, we have the Cold War, a week, I thought, this is not entirely to blame me!

The bank manager was really to blame, though he tried to pin it on a clerk.

And she would allow me to blame her, as I artificially put her down to my friends for forbidding me to do the thing I least wanted to do.

You 're to blame. The woman not to the front of the shadow, by blaming tone to Ling Fan.

Indeed, Mr Plattner may be as much to blame for the firm's troubles as his former underling.

Mr. Jha said at the conference last month that weak marketing was to blame for the performance of the tablet and laptop-phone.

It was perhaps her disorganization that was to blame for Dunham's early demise at the age of 52.

His bizarre behavior and bitter remarks mean a pessimistic mentality and a bleak future. For this, he himself is to blame.

A: But he's as much to blame because he tried to pass you. Was he hurt?

Booming domestic demand and a lack of new investment (including in South Africa, the local "powerhouse" ) are to blame.

The MPF said the investigated Brazilian companies could be to blame for illegal deforestation across 150, 000 hectares.

Scientists are divided over reports that sperm counts have declined over the last 50 years and that environmental factors are to blame.

With the violence largely now spent, and only the occasional gunshot disturbing Osh's evening curfew, survivors debated who was to blame.

But the EU authorities would have only themselves to blame, since their policies are in effect driving Greece out of the eurozone.

The president is not the only one to blame.

Some believed that it was the fans' shouting that was to blame for Li's loss.

If the bug is to blame, antibiotics might be able to treat it and therefore prevent cancer.

Fashion can be bought, and for that nobody is to blame.

It's a very, you know, easy solution to blame someone else, but I think that we all have our share of blame.

As time passed, many Americans began to blame Hoover for the terrible economic depression.

His recent attempt to blame government woes on coalition politics looked limp: Mr Singh's government is unusually secure in Parliament.

Privately, some are beginning to grumble; as one corporate tax analyst in Beijing told me: "The government is to blame. "

The German government's frustration is understandable, but it has only itself to blame.

It must be admitted that both the industrial and governmental sectors are to blame for much of the pollution that exists on the island.

The temptation for a wounded China will be to blame all this on America and Japan.

After past terrorist attacks Indian authorities have been quick to blame Pakistan and its shadowy Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI).

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.

If it is an instinct, if it is inherited, it is part of my lot; I am not to blame.

Besides, it was corporate America, in the shape of the Wall Street banks, that was largely to blame for the depth of the recession.

The right tends to blame the left for the Supreme Court's expanded ambit, and not unjustly.

Tracy did well but he was absent down the stretch, however he is not the guy to blame apart from him only Scola did well.

Old man YiNing angry to blame, and with good dream xiao said that even if Mr Hu old man is her own father was also won't.

The findings, reported in the journal of Pediatrics, do not mean that the Internet is to blame.

When discussing reasons for discontent, the law of diminishing utility is relevant. Following this logic, insatiable desires are to blame.

Even though the firm's suicide rate is in line with the national average, France Telecom says that it was partly to blame.

The Chinese, many of whom consider India a dirty, third-rate sort of place, were perhaps most obviously to blame for it.

You have no one to blame if you don't tell the truth or say what you want.

I tried to convince myself that lack of sleep was to blame, but I was not certain.

Traders have said technology was not to blame, but regulators have said high-frequency strategies may have exacerbated the price moves.

The children were not to blame for the accident.

Mr Brown is partly to blame for this mess, but crisis management should have played to his strengths; instead, it revealed his worst side.

Nobody in a country that reveres its constitution likes to blame the fundamental design of the system.

In this epistle, as in all that that unfortunate girl said or did, there was something to praise as well as to blame.

Or will they still fight like animals on ethnic grounds, where the "other" is always to blame?

The causes of the shortage remain tangled, but a few factors are probably to blame.

The cause for delay in shipment was beyond our control. In fact, we were not at all to blame in this matter.

We must face the facts: our emissions of greenhouse gases probably are at least partly to blame for this summer of extremes.

Yet, however easy it may be to blame the US for the current global economic woes, it is also to the US that the world looks for a solution.

When you see participants making mistakes, your first instinct may be to blame their inexperience or lack of intelligence.

It ia said that this is Iran's "emotional" response to a poll two days ago, conducted by IAEA , a watchdog in the UN , to blame it .

If only I wasn't so dimwitted; if only I understood how I was to blame for the flaw that granny abhorred so much.

Ironically, another legacy may be to blame: income-tax withholding, which he helped to invent during the second world war.

Oh, they're going to blame Gizmodo for public perception. Shouldn't Gizmodo have known about this before the iPhone's release, anyway?

Life always someone for you disservice this time, you do not have to blame someone else.

The company insists it is unfair to blame soft drinks for a problem with multiple causes.

So the Street really has no one to blame but itself for its current problems.

B: I think you've carried it out too far. You're to blame. A: My fault?

But chastened honchos at companies like Intel would be happy to blame bad news on a souring economy if they felt a need to do so.

Uncertain growth for the United States is one reason. But the nature of the American regulatory regime is also to blame.

I'm the only person to blame, for I wished him to do it. '

Your employee thinks: "This review is an opportunity to blame your failings as a manager on me. "

Again, analysts argue that restrictions on links with China are at least partly to blame.

Political analysts say bad economic news is to blame, especially the recent tick up in the jobless rate to 9. 1%.

By implication it was not politicians like him but financiers who were to blame.

She was forced by the gossips and the church to blame herself for this accident, so she thought she deserved nothing good.

If the decision is wrong, the man has nobody to blame but himself; he has delivered the wrong message by his wrong kind of clothes.

The stock-market plunge has given new voice to naysayers who say the president is in part to blame for reeling financial markets.

Some teachers say that nobody is to blame for their sins, that we do not know what we do.

Shanghai mayor Han Zheng said the city was partly to blame.

They tried vainly to blame us for the break down in the truce talks.

The body's weakened immune system and its inability to stave off infections are to blame.

Every one had fallen down in the rain, sometimes we should admit our carelessness, and sometimes that the wrong chosen of shoes is to blame.

As economists and market watchers cast about for people to blame for the U. S. market meltdown, Li has surfaced as a scapegoat.

Largely, it's the media who are to blame for this sort of thing.

book review Personally, the book is far to be good, so the review is not to blame!

The contrast is with Iran, where the authorities have been quick to blame foreign countries for manipulating or motivating protesters.

And you know what? I don't have anyone to blame but myself.

To err is human, to be able to blame it on a computer is divine.

US mainstream media and the public's willful ignorance is to blame for lack of knowledge about true cost of wars.

Even I, the most foolhardy, unrelenting hater, felt that it might not be fair to blame the guy for his offensive remarks about me.

I admit I used to blame these corporations for the fact that I hadn't published a novel yet.

I have no one to blame but myself for what I have done.

The accumulation of old, stagnant cells in the body is to blame for some age-related diseases, a new study has found.