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

In addition, he said he takes his share of the blame for not explaining health care proposals more clearly to the public.

Even Silver, eating away, with Captain Flint upon his shoulder, had not a word of blame for their recklessness.

She said she too had lost thousands in Enron stock and benefits but took blame for her own failure to diversify.

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

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

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

Speaking at the talks, Mr Wen said avoiding conflict between the Koreas was "most urgent" , but did not apportion blame for the sinking.

While Mr Murdoch said he accepted ultimate blame for the misconduct at his company, he described the News of the World as "an aberration" .

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

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

He said he accepted his 'share of the blame' for not adequately explaining his plans to the public over the past year.

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

The company is ready to take the blame for what had happened.

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

But I would almost Bet it will be set up for a Republican To do it, the Dems and their bedfellow the NWO don't want the blame for it.

He believed, he said, in "the silence of clothing" . Yet perhaps he must take some of the blame for the new cacophony.

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

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.

"The ECB could well end up getting much of the blame for the sharp economic slowdown, which is now in the pipeline, " he said.

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

No one has the right to have sex with you against your will. The blame for a rape lies solely with the rapist.

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

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.

One of its subsidiaries is the only company to so far accept blame for a role in the Wenzhou accident.

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

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.

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

And the female accuser is not the only one bearing blame for that.

Akio Toyoda himself, as one of five executive vice-presidents, isn't entirely free of blame for the company's recent woes.

It seems hard to imagine that anyone of sound mind would take the blame for something he did not do.

Many professors have accepted at least some of the blame for the global catastrophe.

Accept blame for your own mistakes, knowing that everyone makes them, and that if no one is making any mistakes, nothing is improving.

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

Does any of this matter? Why should we be concerned about the effort to shift the blame for bad policies onto the general public?

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

We were ready to take the blame for what had happened.

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.

Clinton shares at least some of the blame for the current financial chaos.

There was also, in their view, a prevailing feeling that women bore some of the blame for dressing or behaving provocatively.

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.

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

Instead, the blame for passing on the disease that wiped out a third of the population of Europe could lie with the victims themselves.

The new data might reasonably absolve the Democrats of at least some blame for the economy's continued listlessness.

The governing class is trying to deflect blame for the debacle.

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.

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.

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

In which case it is him we should blame, for with no leader, the enemy now had nothing to stop their madness.

Sir Howard has encountered strong internal resistance in his efforts to turn Sony around, but he cannot escape blame for its woes.

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.

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

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.

But while foreigners get much of the blame for rising prices , they account for only a small fraction of total real estate investment .

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

One reason that politicians created an independent central bank was to soak up the blame for economic pain.

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

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

Moreover, it placed much of the blame for all this on the board and senior managers.

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

But at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity, nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.

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

The deregulation of the last few decades has come in for a lot of blame for the current financial crisis.

Surely they bear at least half of the blame for the scourge of pre-marital sex?

Labor has taken a lot of the blame for the current state of the U. S. auto industry, and to a degree, rightfully so.

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.

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

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

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

The resolution did not accept blame for the killings.

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.

A precipitate withdrawal might make that true, but Mr Cheney deserves his share of the blame for the state of Iraq today.

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.

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

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

In general, public health officials are extremely cautious not to prematurely assign blame for an outbreak.

But he said it was too early to assess blame for the miss.

Kitamura said doctors may also be partly to blame for Japan's negative attitudes toward sex during pregnancy or after giving birth.

Fast food meals and TV time shouldn't take all the blame for the U. S. obesity problem, according to a research review published Tuesday.

Mr Driehaus's suggestion that some of the blame for America's economic ills lies with the Bush administration does not go down well, either.

They are to blame for mission statements and were the beginning of the self-help industry.

To be fair, economics is to blame for some of the decrease in creativity.

The Maoists are partly to blame for this, having ostensibly fought for a vaguely defined decentralisation of power.

Others see Medvedev, as prime minister, shouldering the blame for the next wave of economic crisis.

In "Cultural Revolution" , the Confucius is also the main object which becomes revolution and is blame for the historic convict.

But I have never killed a juggler, nor a dwarf, and I am not to blame for what happened to your bloody brother.

Christmas trees could be to blame for a range of health complaints over the festive season, according to new research.

Many are to blame for the current situation. But we have no time for finger-pointing or partisan posturing.

Rich countries have deservedly taken much of the blame for the sorry state of the Doha round.

I and you were to blame for his injury.

So far, they show little sign of agreeing on anything except that the other side is to blame for their failure to compromise.

Catastrophic rains have become more frequent in Brazil (and elsewhere). But much of the blame for the high death toll lies closer to earth.

To attach the blame for the team's woes to the two former galacticos is manifestly, in sporting terms, as unjust as it is irrational.

This year, Mother Nature was to blame for some of the most significant worsening.

The blame for Sunday rests with the whole team, with the defence, beginning with me. You certainly cannot only blame him.

Who are to blame for a sharp increase in the teenage crime? Families? Schools? In fact, the whole society is guilty of this trend.

She revealed her true colours when she put the blame for the mistake on her colleagues.

Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

Lack of cash might be partly to blame for the problems at home.

Elegba is firmly of the view that blame for the Fukushima accident should be allocated to nature rather than human error.

Privately, however, they fear the blame for the resulting economic turmoil would end at the president's door.

In the U. S. , China is, of course, an easily identifiable villain for when voters want someone to blame for 9. 6% unemployment.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says he's to blame for not putting more safeguards in place that could have prevented abuses of the Patriot Act.

Although money is to blame for all the evils, it still can make a future for you and your family.

In Europe, officials said they would fight speculative investors they blame for aggravating the public debt crisis.

A recent report by the International Crisis Group says the international community must shoulder some blame for the continued turmoil.

The researchers suspect that the shape of the human ear canal may be to blame for the pain.

But the odds are against a breakthrough as individual countries do not agree they are to blame for global imbalances.

But if drought is responsible for some of China's price pressure, a deluge of credit is to blame for the rest.

But given the party's determination to avoid any blame for the Iraq mess, Congress seems unlikely to squeeze the defence budget hard.

For some, Keynes is the hero who rescued the West from the Great Depression, for others the villain to blame for the current mess.

He was to blame for not locking the door.

The blame for that surely lies with the authorities. But I have sometimes felt pangs of guilt.

EXAMPLE: The loyal manager always shouldered the blame for problems caused by any of his subordinates.

The report puts the blame for this on "humanitarian crises and the political situation in a number of countries" .

Most researchers around the world agree that green house gases are to blame for the disappearance of ice.

As to whether any study can absolve teens of blame for their antics, he said, "That's a question for the philosophers. "

Barkley said during a pre-game show Monday that he was to blame for the outstanding gambling debt.

The party shares the blame for the unpopularity of his policies.

Was an equation to blame for the financial crash, then?

I always had to bear the blame for my naughty son, who used to make trouble at school.

Sorrow is to grieve Bruno's death and blame for his own ignorance.

Several studies pin blame for that on Japan's unwillingness to tackle its banking mess.

The government had to share at least part of the blame for our situation.

This article is just another step in the Upropaganda effort to make it look like North Korea is to blame for starting the coming war.

That committee faces the nearly impossible task of attributing blame for Thailand's worst political violence in a generation.

They share none of the blame for America's economic crisis, yet they shoulder all of the consequences.

that knowing you were dying, you might take the blame for something you didn't do just to spare your loved one a life sentence?

Both sides must shoulder some of the blame for the steadily worsening atmosphere on Capitol Hill.

He has taken the blame for its poor show and makes an unconditional apology to all his supporters and well-wishers.

PMD believes that climate change is to blame for this northwesterly migration of the monsoons.

However, long hours and demanding work alone are not to blame for the stress on medical workers' relationships.

This, in turn, has contributed to the build-up of the macroeconomic imbalances that many blame for the financial crisis.

The parents are clearly to blame for the bad attitude of their children. Their kids have been spoiled rotten.

But Israel and its hardline government stood firm, refusing to accept blame for the unfortunate -- and poorly planned -- raid.

Mandel is not of course to blame for this lack of an analytical framework.

"Fifty years from now, we do not want the world to lay the blame for environmental catastrophe at the feet of China, " Mr. Locke said.

Some lawmakers say Bernanke deserves the blame for it. Others believe his decisions kept it from getting even worse.

I am ready to take the blame for the mistake.

The Goldman case, which involves privately traded derivatives that some blame for worsening the financial crisis, plays into his hand.

Scientists say a combination of drought, cutting down forests and city developments is to blame for these weather conditions.

Some of the blame for this must be directed at Capitol Hill.

The British government's failure to admit any blame for the mess is shameful.

If anybody is to blame for a bond bubble, it isn't Joe Schmo; it's Uncle Sam, with some help from overseas.

I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you.

We don't know who Specifically was to blame for what happened, but we know which group of boys was involved.

Rather than put the blame for O'Neal's departure on Bryant, as Kobe charged last spring, the owner always took personal responsibility.

He wanted to quit himself of any blame for our failure.

herself must bear some ~ of the blame for what happens to her.

It was difficult to apportion the blame for the accident between the two drivers.

In football, Britain's main sport, some Luddites think the open labour market is to blame for the lack of local talent.

BLAME for the sorry state of the Doha trade talks belongs in many quarters.

He tried to apportion blame for this very serious wastage of talent.

Of course, leaders within organizations bear some of the blame for this mind-set.

Soaring gasoline prices in the United States are partly to blame for the country's economic slowdown.

He's not to blame for arriving late. He was told the wrong time for the meeting.

Much of the blame for China's two-tier pricing structure still lies with the fragmented domestic industry.

He accepts blame for the accident, ie agrees that it was his fault.

Psychologists must take some of the blame for this raging fashion for goal-setting.

"We Japanese are also to blame for this, " he added. "We have accepted violence and allowed it to keep happening. "

Unfortunately, this "kill a process" solution generally backfires when tmpfs growth is to blame for VM exhaustion.

I'm so lonely but that's okay I shaved my head. And I'm not sad And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard.

Investigators say design flaws in steel plates holding the bridge together may be to blame for the disaster.

Bob tried to pass the buck. He tried to blame for someone else for the deficit.

The blame for that lies not with Mr Tsang, but ultimately with British rule.

Mr Landers never had any doubt about who was to blame for his condition.

El Nino -- a periodic natural warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean -- is partly to blame for the unusual warmth.

But it is still hard to pin all the blame for high prices on investors.

IOC communications director Mark Adams insisted that sponsors were not to blame for the problems.

regulators responsible for regulating such firms could take part of the blame for tariff increases.

China, says a water expert at the Asian Development Bank, is not to blame for all their woes.

He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness.

Yet the researchers say none of these are as likely to blame for the tree deaths as climate change.

A: On your first question, China is certainly not to blame for the situation.

The panel concluded that both Moscow and Washington are to blame for the deterioration of diplomatic relations during the past year.

He could, however, tell us that he was not to blame for our current situation.

Did inflation targeting fail? Central banks have mostly escaped blame for the crisis. Do they deserve to do so?

The shooting sparked a fierce debate in America about whether the heated political rhetoric of recent years was to blame for the incident.

Harry Reid, the majority leader, may be to blame for the clumsy handling of the Senate.

Both main parties in Greece share some of the blame for the current political mess.

For years, absent fathers have taken the blame for this, because growing up quickly has negative consequences for girls.

Mr Obama bears a disproportionate share of the blame for the resurrection of the old politics.

The report discloses that human error was to blame for the accident.

Sometimes other people will be to blame for that loss, and sometimes not.

But climate change skeptics take issue with the argument that global warming is to blame for intense storms.

Officials at World Heritage headquarters in Paris say their program isn't to blame for overdevelopment and commercialization.

He must bear part of the blame for the terrible years that followed his death.

Some might argue that King Bhumibol shares the blame for the failure of democratic institutions to take root in Thailand.

Carbon dioxide from energy use is a major contributor to the greenhouse gases which scientists blame for global warming.

Wen outmaneuvered the West again and again -- on clean energy, rare-earth metals, currencies, blame for global imbalances, you name it.

The notion that the yen is unnaturally high, or that speculators are in part to blame for that, is debatable. But one thing is sure.

A shortage of genes could be to blame for the lack of height in short people, researchers have found.

A rise in home evictions was also to blame for the growing number of animals sent to pounds, Guillo said.

We take everything personally. We see insults where none were meant, or we take the blame for things that are not our fault.

A new report says that weak social ties may be to blame for the higher incidence of mental disorders in cities.

To be clear, Facebook itself isn't to blame for the demise of domestic bliss.

President accepts blame for error Mr. Obama told CBS television he takes the blame for the bungled Daschle nomination.

Would anyone care to explain how G&H are to blame for today's debacle! ! ? We were playing Luton, yes, Luton.

So what should we make of the evidence from the mummies, and do they justify laying the blame for cancer firmly on modernity?

A new study shows genes are more likely to blame for obesity in children than poor eating habits.

By refusing to do so, the main blame for the impasse rests with Binyamin Netanyahu.

The police found out who are to be blame for the accidents.

Greek officials say far left militants are to blame for today's attack on the American embassy in Athens.

The Government is to blame for this very serious wastage of talent among the young.

Somehow she felt that the blame for all the leafy misfortunes lay with the tree, the trunk with all its mighty limbs.

Blue jeans are partly to blame for pollution of the Pearl River, United Press International reported.

The blame for this latest craze rests with the editor of Strategy and Business , a management magazine.

The police laid the blame for the accident squarely on the driver's shoulders.

The careless driver is to blame for the traffic accident happening yesterday.

The economic crunch deserves much of the blame for the demise of the farewell parties, but there are other reasons.

They said cyanide poison was to blame for the deaths this year.

Indeed, some economists believe that excess money is already partly to blame for rising inflation.

The exam-oriented education system is to blame for disrespecting gender traits and needs.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is taking the blame for his side's defeat at Arsenal on Sunday.

That inquiry put much of the blame for what happened on the oil company's drilling partners.

Was to blame for what happened, but we know which group of boys was involved.

Hans Christian Andersen's tale is worth remembering as politicians apportion blame for sovereign-debt scares.

Both candidates deserve equal blame for not addressing with any specificity California's most urgent problem.

Some parents are also to blame for spoiling their only child and lavish money on their only grandchild, the federation said.

He won't fix a blame for failure on something or someone, but will modulate himself to rectify the situation.

Failed investments in liquid-crystal display manufacturing are to blame for the losses.

The economic downturn is clearly partly to blame for the decline in shares of renewable-energy companies.

Do Mr. Brown and his party really deserve blame for the crisis here? Yes and no.

Mr El-Badri warned that speculative investment was partly to blame for the increase in prices.

More immediately, too little sleep affects reaction times; sleepiness is to blame for car crashes and other accidents.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and others say it is not clear that speculators are to blame for high oil prices.

and, finally, those in charge wish to divert blame for the disaster.

He also said it was difficult to find someone to blame for the loss of heritage in one of the world's richest cultural environments.

Mr. Obama told CBS television he takes the plan blame for the bango decimal bungled Daschle nomination.

None of them wants to shoulder blame for the crisis.

AGGRESSIVE tree-felling on mount Kilimanjaro could be partly to blame for its vanishing ice cap.

Goldman is not to blame for this financial crisis.

As translators, we are not to blame for that.

Parents have no one to blame for their rotten children but themselves.

Pyongyang says South Korea is to blame for the incident and has demanded an apology.

Sony's representative said my office Wi-Fi could be to blame for the Dash's slow performance.

Boxing is not to blame for his condition.

Food prices are also part of economic problems to blame for the deadly riots in Tunisia.

Political leaders took the credit for the economic boom; they cannot escape blame for the bust.