Sentences with phrase «laid much blame»

I'd want to ask Sullivan if he really saw events per his Congressional testimony on the fall of 2008, where he laid much blame for the collapse at the feet of mark - to - market accounting.

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The country was frustrated after two decades of economic turmoil, and Abe argued much of that blame lay in an inflated currency that was crippling Japan's industry.

At other times he has laid much of the blame squarely at the feet of the retailers themselves.

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

Twenge and Campbell correctly lay much of the blame for the epidemic at the feet of the self - esteem movement, which has been enormously influential, not only in the spheres of popular psychology and education, but also as a central tenet of the «gospel of success» message heard in many evangelical megachurches.

In March 1968, the Commission issued a 608 - page report that laid much of the blame for the crisis on the mass media.

While the bishops condemned terrorism and anti-Semitism, they laid much of the blame for the conflict squarely on Israel.

The Commission laid much of the blame for the crisis on the mass media.

Even though Arsene Wenger refused to lay too much blame at his feet, the fact is that Petr Cech and his two glaring errors in goal cost us all three points against West Ham.

Pesky gremlins infested the team last term and its head boy Adrian Newey is going to have to design a 2018 - spec car that is much more resistant to the gremlins that caused so many retirements last season, although some blame has been laid at the door of Renault, who provided a weaker force of magic last season compared to its rivals.

Anyway, however you dress it up and whatever excuses you make, the past five years have been frustratingly fallow and I believe much of the blame can be laid at AW's door.

Following England's exit at Euro 2016, much blame has been laid at the hands of Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart.

Much of the research focuses on what goes wrong, rather than what goes right, and psychologists from Freud onward have often laid the blame on mothers.

If Scotland does vote to break away from the UK later this month, much of the blame will be laid at the Conservative party's door.

If we're in a similar or worse position in three years time, I don't think Conservative attempts to lay the blame on Gordon Brown will cut much ice.

He owns the MTA debacle, no matter how much he tries to lay blame elsewhere.

Much of the blame for the No to AV vote lays with Nick Clegg, Compass and the Electoral Reform Society.

Monsanto - owned BeeLogics, a bee health company, is one of the collaborators in the partnership with USDA that issued the report on Thursday, which appeared to lay much of the blame for die - offs on the «varroa mite,» an Asian bee parasite first found in the United States in 1987.

«Heterosexuals are virtually risk free,» the article declared and went on to lay much of the blame for the epidemic on gay men.

Caroline Ummenhofer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and her colleagues wanted to know how much of the blame laid with that year's La Niña — and how much was caused by longer - term ocean warming.

Rather than accept fault, they lay it at the feet of others; blaming everyone from their parents to their partner for their own poor behaviour.4 If there's one thing dating a narcissist teaches you, it's that this infuriating, childish tactic isn't healthy for any relationship: there's much more room for mutual growth and happiness when you date someone who has the maturity to admit (and fix) their own mistakes.

Much of the blame should be laid on longtime music director Dave Meyers, who would rather shoot fights and car crashes to look cool rather to set an atmosphere that suggests there is a surreal, existential nature to the dilemma of Jim and Grace.

Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the film's ephemeral style distances the action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.

She lays much of the blame for her messed - up state on her dad.

Much of the blame can be laid at the various trailers and other promotional material for the film, but the biggest problem is modern Hollywood screenwriting conventions.

Routinely rushing to lay blame for local administrative upset at the feet of the feds, Winerip frequently fails to differentiate between state and federal requirements, much less offer readers information to understand why states differ from one another in their policies.

But that bill fell apart in the statehouse, with much of the blame laid at the feet of DeVos and GLEP.

Reynolds lays much of the blame on the push to end «social promotion» — the practice of advancing children to the next grade despite failing grades — that marked the Chicago Public Schools in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Folks involved with the Learning Differences Network, the Wisconsin Reading Coalition and the Wisconsin Branch of the International Dyslexia Association lay much of the blame for reading failure on current teaching practices and a reluctance to identify reading problems early in elementary school.

Much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the group's astonishing odiosity.

Taking responsibility for mistakes will help you learn and become a better investor and should prevent cop - out statements such as,» Again, I lay the blame on Zamano... it's astonishing a single stock, in a single six month period, can throw off my long - term performance so much!?

Again, I lay the blame on Zamano... it's astonishing a single stock, in a single six month period, can throw off my long - term performance so much!?

Yes, the tourny takes place for many months across the year, but being they're unveiling registration details now — alongside the fact any competitors will need as much time as possible to get in digital shape — lays the blame of SFV's early release squarely at the feet of Capcom themselves.

Robert Hughes, the world's best - known champion of modern painting and sculpture, is publicly to lay much of the blame for the decline of contemporary art at the door of Damien Hirst.

I admit, I stay out of Australia as much as possible, but every time I do look that way, I'm told with increasing certainty that the Great Barrier Reef is dying rapidly, and more and more blame is being laid at the feet of governments» and businesses» bad hydrology practices with less and less uncertainty.

Much of the blame for this can, of course, be laid at the feet of the Bush administration.

Much of the blame for this week's specific problem has been laid on organisations using Windows XP, an operating system that is 16 years old and has not been supported by Microsoft for three years.

Actually the trouble starts in the present tense, and I blame Bob Dylan («Lay, Lady, Lay») and Eric Clapton («Lay Down Sally»)-- which is about as much use as blaming Dickens for screwing up with «Our Mutual Friend.»

Lay out in simple sentences why the other side is to blame and how much it cost to fix.

The Mac, meanwhile, has suffered from stop - start refresh cycles and component troubles, and much of the blame for that has been laid at Intel's feet.

Much of the blame for the ill - informed decision to work with Windows Phone devices has been laid on Jessica Tisch, the Department's Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology.

Like a lot of other problems these days, much of the blame is being laid on the meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the bursting of the single - family housing bubble.