| For my liking, you're too quick to shift the blame to corporate capital and irresistible forces of commercialism. |
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| During the trial, his lawyers had done their best to shift the blame to her. |
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| The result was that those accused of name-calling tried to shift the blame elsewhere. |
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| Conservative spin doctors are already trying to explain away these cuts and to shift the blame away from themselves. |
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| The proposal is an attempt to shift the blame for the Iraqi people's suffering away from the U. S. and Britain. |
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| Some people are quick to accept accolades for themselves for good things, but they shift the blame to others for bad things. |
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| That reminds me a bit of what we heard from the previous minister, who expressed disappointment with AECL trying to shift the blame. |
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| Treasury Board has recently attempted to shift the blame onto the PSAC for cancelling what were only tentative bargaining dates in June. |
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| The accusations that the decision makes against the Russian Federation constitute a disgraceful attempt to shift the blame to others. |
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| Above all, we must persuade governments not to shift the blame onto each other. |
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| The keys to the kingdom are in Oracle's hands and they can't shift the blame to regulators in any case. |
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| State officials, military and aviation experts in both countries hurried to shift the blame for the catastrophe. |
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| Most researchers believe that hangovers are created by build ups of acetaldehyde, although others shift the blame from ethanol and its side products to methanol. |
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| Fourth, apologists try to shift the blame. |
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| It was as if someone else were in charge, as if someone else had held the pen on all this for the last dozen years or so, looking potentially to shift the blame. |
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| The worst case is when, under the pretence of mentoring, bosses get juniors to do their work for them, and then shift the blame on them when things go wrong. |
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| In Spain recently the previous government tried to shift the blame for three major bomb attacks onto a separatist movement rather than an international movement because that would be better for them in the elections. |
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| She is trying to shift the blame to the fund's administrators, but she knows that they cannot do anything until the government either allows the transfer of funds or ponies up more cash. |
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| Now it's trying to shift the blame elsewhere. |
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| Let's not shift the blame on to each other, let's see together the best way to bring health care to both communities, who have to live side by side without having made this choice. |
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| This report attempts to shift the blame for the unholy mess on to the Member States, but we should be under no illusions about where the blame really lies. |
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| Thus, the PSE is a powerful misinformation tool that allows the United States to clear itself of any responsibility for the failure of the Doha round and shift the blame to the European Union. |
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| So all the facts point to somebody trying to shift the blame. |
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| It was regrettable and unacceptable that the aggressor, clearly named in the Commission's report, was trying to shift the blame onto others and present itself to the Committee as a victim. |
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| Too many bureaucrats were decision-making ditherers and too many were only too willing to shift the blame to someone else when things went wrong. |
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| The Minister came across as an under-briefed, over-promoted placeman trying to shift the blame for the fiasco towards the quango. |
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| If, as appears to be the case, the Chinese leadership intends to shift the blame for China's economic turmoil after accession to WTO onto the West, then Canadian investments in China could become the target of attack. |
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