Sentences with phrase «of assigning blame»

Focus on mutually supporting solutions instead of assigning blame, at least when you are talking to the bank.

Instead of assigning blame, we must seek the causes of problems.

But Ban stopped short of assigning blame, saying that was not the mission of the U.N. team.

In terms of assigning blame for the current U.S. economic malaise, 8 % of the respondents finger Obama's perceived «high spending, high regulation policies,» while others looked beyond the current administration.

Not exact matches

He points out a couple factors that make it hard to assign blame when it comes to the opioid epidemic — pain meds are lawful drugs, approved and regulated by the federal government, and there are «a whole lot of intermediaries: in the distribution process.

Although much of Trump's ire over the health care failure has been aimed at the Republican - controlled Congress, associates of the president said he also assigns some blame to Price, who he believes did not do a good job of selling the GOP plan.

Berating bosses; employees who take credit for others» work, assign blame, or spread rumors; and coworkers who exclude teammates from networks — all of these can cut a swath of destruction that's often visible only to the immediate victims.

In addition, retailers» attempts at assigning blame in a manner consistent with the perceptions of customers are largely inaccurate, getting it right approximately as often as they get it wrong.

Politicians in question period may work themselves into a lather assigning blame, but the truth of the matter is that today's situation was a result of a decline in economic growth outside any federal finance minister's ability to manipulate the situation.

that makes members of the public so quick to assign blame without — like the CBC reporter — even bothering to ask what it's all about in the first place?

What will be interesting to see is how much blame the Holder report will assign to Kalanick, who has also had his share of missteps at Uber, in years past and recently too.

We tend to base our choices on the events of the recent past, assuming what works will continue to work and assigning the blame when things fail to forces other than ourselves.

In order to appropriately assign the blame for the state of the «church» we must see - through the clever psychological side - step that's been used by pastors and clergy for centuries to deflect their personal responsibility for the sad state of affairs within Chrisendom.

The researchers assigned the robot the task of building the furniture not because they were lazy (though, with IKEA furniture, who could blame them?)

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

They wrote: «We don't blame him for despising his very existence, since he is DIRECTLY and PERSONALLY responsible for thrusting terrible violence upon every other gender (all of them), race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religion... even though by all accounts he's a good guy who works hard, takes care of his family, tries his best to love his neighbor as himself, and all that other stuff that doesn't matter because we only regard him as part of a collective group to which we assign blame.»

Somber commentators take turns assigning blame for the sorry state of affairs to the candidates and to the media, but it is unlikely that a failure so massive and persistent can be charged to one of the usual suspects.

Most people blame a lack of willpower for not being able to stick to the number that is assigned to them when counting calories.

But by assigning the complaint to the new paradigm — by blaming the new style of play for his problem instead of making a direct appeal to get more free throws himself — he shapes the narrative in a certain way that may make it more likely for the league or individual officials to work him more fairly (in his eyes).

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

Players, directors and supporters alike are sure to spend the coming weeks assessing performances, assigning blame and handing out praise before all eyes turn to the excitement of the summer transfer window.

We also probably assign a major portion of blame to the board and owner for contract situations over last 2 years.

Agnelli accused Oliver of bias against Italian clubs, but mostly blamed UEFA for assigning him to the game and not incorporating video assistant referees (VAR) into the Champions League for this season.

Being critical the blame for the goal should loosely be assigned to Lucas and Gerrard; another case of midfield culpability.

Though this goal arose from an unintentional piece of sloppy play from Henderson, we have to assign the blame to the midfielder for a crucial loss of possession.

One of the easier tasks when attempting to assign blame was looking at Anichebe's equaliser for West Brom.

When assigning blame for some goals conceded this year, it's obvious that we have to take into account the situations that arise simply from good pieces of opposition play; Crouch's goal was one such situation.

It's easy to get caught up in comparisons of who reached what milestone and when, or assigning blame when things don't end up the way you planned.

Rather than assign blame for the ADHD epidemic, we must look to a new paradigm of mental health that is founded in contemporary developmental science.

The question of who would hold responsibility for a failure to raise the debt ceiling and a government default, posed as a hypothetical question, has received quite a bit of polling and a substantial majority say they would assign the blame squarely on the Republican party

The easiest and most common way of assigning responsibility for payment is to assign «blame».

Pointing fingers and assigning blame, doesn't alter the fact that New York no longer is the most populous state of the union.

While careful not to assign blame, the report has a series of recommendations to prevent similar catastrophes in the future, including screening U.N. personnel from cholera - endemic areas for the presence of Vibrio cholerae before they leave home and giving them a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

Although the polar bear's listing does recognize the impact of changing global conditions, the department is quick to point out that it does not assign blame for these conditions on anyone in particular.

My colleagues and I set out to study the patterns that appear in local media coverage of wildfires so that we could better understand what policy problems local journalists bring up, how they assign blame or responsibility, and whether these trends change over time.

And while the authors do an excellent job of describing what occurred in the decade from its inception to its demise, they stumble when trying to assign blame.

Rather than assign blame to humans for particular extremes, scientists could study a class of events, such as heavy rainfall in a certain geography, and say whether past human actions have increased their risk.

When given the opportunity to select multiple government agencies or individuals that bore at least some responsibility for failing to prevent the bombing, federal agencies were assigned the greatest blame with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Homeland Security found at fault by 56 percent and 50 percent of respondents, respectively, followed by the Central Intelligence Agency at 42 percent.

But it's important to not assign blame: not to the object of affections and not to yourself.

You almost certainly will go through a phase where you begin to assign blame to yourself for the failure of the relationship.

Because the cast is basically the same in both parts of the Nerds saga, the blame for the saga's decline must be assigned elsewhere.

The entire cast seems to be unsure as to what kind of movie they're in, but it's hard to assign blame because the pic's various subplots are startlingly disjointed.

Although its easy to assign blame — or to fixate on the failure of one or the other — the truth is we need to R.E.A.C.H. out more.

Chances are, parents, community leaders, and educators will be left years from now with an even greater sense of uncertainty about who really runs the district and to whom they should turn, or assign blame, when things go wrong.

Rather than using data to create a laundry list of «what's going wrong with our schools» or to assign blame to a group or individual, it is more effective to look at equity - related data with the goal of building capacity for improvement.

Rather than assigning blame for this trend of students returning to the public school system, we should be celebrating that charter schools are helping restore confidence in the public school system.

Team members are forced to move beyond their individual orientations to consider a broader view of the problem; they can't settle an issue simply by assigning blame.

I think Emme is not thinking rationally about the amount of blame she assigns to Annie and her perceptions are skewed by her poor relationship with her mother prior to her mother's death.

While assigning blame to Penguin as opposed to Amazon is appropriate there's no denying that Penguin's terrible pricing does affect Kindle owners — especially if some of their favorite authors are on Penguin.

While some titles are about surviving the aftermath of a comet or a nuclear bomb, some are decidedly pointing the finger at various governments, assigning the blame to the politicians.