Sentences with phrase «much of the blame»

Elon Musk, Tesla's chairman, chief executive, and largest stockholder, has placed much of the blame on a misconception among Chinese consumers that charging is difficult there.

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.

The company has been struggling to grow its user base for quite some time, and its product — sometimes described as «niche» — has received much of the blame.

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

Much of the blame can be placed on the drop in oil prices, which have fallen 30 per cent since the end of 2014.

In WILTW June 23, 2016, we argued that much of the blame for this predicament belongs to the central banks: «If the Fed and other major central banks had not lowered interest rates to zero (or below), it would have been harder for corporations to justify financial engineering at the expense of capital investment.

«The allocation of corporate profits to stock buybacks deserves much of the blame.

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.

I don't think that American's deserve so much of the blame for being ill - informed.

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

Francis pins much of the blame for our current situation on misunderstandings of this relationship: «A spirituality which forgets God as all - powerful and Creator is not acceptable.

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

I, as a Muslim will have to accept much of the blame.

Much of the blame lies here in this room.

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

In a candid article published in Christian Century in 1980, Henry admitted his earlier and more optimistic vision of a grand evangelical alliance had come to nothing, and he placed much of the blame on Billy Graham, one of Henry's few critical comments about his former classmate and collaborator.

Certainly, much of the blame for these things lie at the feet of mankind, but Satan encourages these destructive behaviors and fans the flames of proud and arrogant men arguing over land, possessions, privilege, and power.

Vincenzo Montella has unsurprisingly been the man to receive much of the blame, and similarly to Conte, he faces a crucial test this weekend when his side host Genoa at the San Siro.

Simple truth is Kos was one of the worst players out there and deserves as much of the blame as any of them.

I loathe to blame Wenger usually but his inability to replace Cazorla, sale of a target man and brute force DM, and his inability to improve the areas our game is clearly lacking in has to take much of the blame for our performances like this.

Even allowing for that time difference between Japan and the U.S., CBS bears much of the blame for the viewers» dissatisfaction.

It hasn't gone as smoothly as many would have hoped, with agent Mino Raiola receiving much of the blame for his meddling, but La Gazzetta dello Sport believe that there will be a positive conclusion to negotiations.

Arsenal players have since come under criticism for their attitude on the pitch, and much of the blame has been shouldered by the manager, but Petit doesn't believe that should be the case.

Ainsley Maitland - Niles has stated that manager Arsene Wenger takes too much of the blame for his side's failings, and urges his fellow Arsenal players to stand up and be counted.

I don't want to put too much of the blame on Mert.

We have generally been poor this season & much of the blame has to go on Wenger.

That is why when we win i gave the credit to the players and absorb them much of the blame when we loss.

The former Czech international has conceded six goals already this term, although how much of the blame for the four goals against Liverpool can you stamp on him?

German forward Lukas Podolski couldn't bear much of the blame for the defeat as he came off the bench, but still he encouraged his followers to stay positive:

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.

The space Toure affords Crouch proves costly, yet it's perhaps harsh to apportion the Ivorian too much of the blame as the striker's deft header is excellent in its placement and execution.

Denise Pope, one of the co-authors of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids, puts much of the blame for this failure - is - forever narrative on parents who are obsessed with marks and achievement.

Much of the blame for this decline can, according to the report, be attributed «squarely» to marketing and the payment of incentives to health workers to promote the use of infant formula products.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

Last fall, Democrats lost control of the Senate and fell further into the minority in the House, but pinned much of the blame on low turnout in the midterm elections.

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.

David Cameron and George Osborne managed to pin much of the blame for the recent recession, and the decline in living standards, on the last Labour government.

Although many commentators do note factors such as the price of gym membership, much of the blame for higher levels of obesity among poor people is placed on dietary choices.

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

The Assembly Democrats, led by Speaker Sheldon Silver, shouldered much of the blame, but the Senate also failed to muster sufficient votes to pass the measure.

The decision came just a day after the federal report placed much of the blame for the culture of brutality at Rikers Island on a failure to punish guards who use excessive and unnecessary force.

The revised report shifted much of the blame to the plant's owner, Exelon, instead of NRC procedures.

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Ni ± a, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

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.

The White Paper places much of the blame on what it calls «the black box syndrome».

«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.

But the pair say the embankments must take much of the blame.

Human activities must take much of the blame.