Sentences with phrase «placing blame for them»

Everybody focuses on solving the problems rather than on placing blame for them.

One father, who decided he preferred a happy hour with the new receptionist at the office, claimed he was given the wrong date and time for an important event for the child, thereby placing the blame for his own misplaced priorities on the mother who already was doing all the calling, scheduling, shlepping and arranging.

While it's certainly not the sole culprit behind ethereum's lagging transactions, as ethereum developer Nick Johnson pointed out, it is one, and at the very least, it's where people are placing the blame for exposing ethereum's limits.

Proving that injuries or illnesses are the direct result of pollution or exposure to toxic chemicals can be a difficult process, and placing blame for that pollution can require extensive investigation.

Our firm is ready to stand by the side of injured motorcyclists and their families, fighting back against allegations of comparative fault and placing the blame for a crash caused by a careless driver where it belongs.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies caution against placing the blame for 2015's unseasonable warmth solely on El Niño, however.

The International Game Developers Association took to Twitter earlier today to protest the idea that games can be linked to real - world violence, instead placing the blame for recent US shootings on the country's lack of «reasonable gun control measures.»

The Houston Chronicle quotes unnamed officials as placing the blame for the problem squarely on humans.

From Bill Gates and Eli Broad to Michelle Rhee and now Tony Smith, these self - proclaimed education «reformers» are short on education experience and long on placing the blame for educational failures where it doesn't belong.

Former top aide Peter Ragone used far less restraint when placing blame for his old boss's woes.

Instead of placing the blame for bullying on the bully, they often shoulder the blame.

The messy house, the kids that go to sleep at odd hours, not having much of a social life outside of work and family for a while (unless you find people who parent like you and recognize the need to be social with children), or the toddler latched to your breast or still taking a bottle will have everyone raising eyebrows and placing the blame for any of life's woes at your feet because after all, you allowed it to happen.

Rather than placing the blame for unjust institutionalization on an oppressive patriarchy, the author points out that women were, and are, often complicit in the creation and social enforcement of oppressive social norms.

Oracle's suit places the blame for the failure of Cover Oregon on the state itself, with the company claiming that Oregon refused to hire a «systems integrator» to manage Oracle's work on the website.

Nigel Lea placed blame for GardaWorld's licensing woes in Iraq squarely on Gen. Jalal's shoulders.

All PC Party leadership candidates are taking aim at Ms. Redford, trying to place the blame for every mistake the government has made for the past two years solely on her.

I grew up in the 1990s, in a very extreme group that would have liked to place the blame for all of society's woes squarely at the feet of miniskirt - and bikini - clad women.

While many schools have gone to great lengths to prevent another Columbine from happening in their own communities, most Americans don't place the blame for school violence on school officials or on a lack of security.

For him, stoicism refers to an attempt to place blame for desolation on the person who suffers, as if suffering was or springs from a kind of defect that a person should overcome.

I honestly don't know where to place blame for that breakdown.

I place the blame for my addiction squarely upon the genes and tongues of my parents.

Many of the museum employees placed blame for much of the damage on the Chicago Park District, claiming they were slow to respond and turn out the water.

But, to in any way place blame for this on the mom because she didn't birth naturally and says her baby died because of a lack of intervention is cruel and awful.

Brandon Lorenz, a Human Rights Campaign spokesperson, placed the blame for the failure of the override vote squarely on Christie.

Third, Stewart Jackson (Peterborough) illustrating, in an exchange with Rachel Reeves, the degree to which Tory speakers placed the blame for the defict where it belongs.

That's not to place the blame for this gimmicky legislation on school administrators, who, given the choice, would prefer not to have a tax cap.

In it, the governor squarely places the blame for the worsening economy at Washington's feet, saying:

Animal rights activists who have been trying to ban the carriage industry for years placed the blame for the deal's demise squarely on Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Voters also placed the blame for the recent scandals on Republicans, with 38 percent identifying them with corruption, versus 26 percent for Democrats.

GOSHEN — The Orange County Legislature may have hired a law firm to consider suing County Executive Edward Diana over the closure of the Valley View nursing home, but Diana continues to place the blame for any potential closure on the lawmakers.

Paterson also took aim at the public employee unions and placed the blame for potential layoffs at their feet, saying they had ample time to negotiate and agree to furloughs or pay lags.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and de Blasio placed blame for the tragic shooting on in the judge's decision to allow Howard to enroll in a drug treatment program as part of a plea deal, saying earlier on Wednesday that Howard was «a poster boy for not being diverted.»

Felder — who, in turn, places the blame for the GOP majority on the IDC — reported only $ 500 of itemized campaign contributions in the first half of 2017.

Sensing that negotiations were not proceeding apace, Cuomo preemptively placed the blame for tardiness on Washington.

The first, by Tepco itself last November, placed blame for the nuclear catastrophe on a once - every -1000-year «unforeseeable» combination of earthquake and tsunami.

Now, do you see how that statement attempts to place blame for your feelings on the other person?

What's particularly interesting is that the film doesn't appear to place the blame for the attack on her, but rather the bumbling, self - proclaimed bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt.

Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of Erudite, has placed the blame for the killings on the rebellious, nebulous clan of Divergents — those members of society whose personalities are too well - rounded to fit in a single faction.

Place the blame for «Dead Like Me» squarely in the back pocket of creator Bryan Fuller, so fond of his own cleverness that his characters are forced in thrall of his ventriloquism.

After the measure's defeat, the group's national spokesman, Tommy Schultz, placed the blame for what he called the «dysfunctional House process» on Speaker Beth Harwell, a Nashville Republican who is expected to run for governor next year.

He added that it's impossible to place blame for the decline solely on free schools because there are no «good measures of whether a school is good or bad.»

Other critics quickly pointed out that the «walk up» meme is attempting to deflect attention from America's outlier position regarding guns and gun violence and to place the blame for mass shootings on the victims themselves.

You can place the blame for the big sedan's demise at the wheels of crossovers.

Secondly, the Fed may place the blame for the lackluster U.S. economy on global stagnation, but the results remain the same.

When it came time to place blame for the N64 titles» failure, the most obvious difference was chosen: The games were presented in 3D, and therefore 3D is bad.

California's Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D'Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative Linda Sanchez and not surprisingly Climate Progress» Joe Romm sought to place the blame for the California wildfires on «global warming».

The campaign in the late 1940s against internal enemies was intended to place the blame for the continued enormous hardships of Soviet life on «fascists,» «American imperialists,» and other «alien elements» and to keep the populace in a constant state of tension.

Though it's difficult to exactly trace the influence of lobbying money, by its very nature, both Philpott and OpenSecrets squarely place the blame for recent failures of efforts to label GMO ingredients in Congress, as well as the FDA thoroughly dragging its feet on GMO labeling, questioning the validity of petitions demanding labeling, on the massive influence of Monsanto.

Nowadays, in the aftermath of every weather - related disaster, proponents of restricting fossil fuel use in the name of halting climate change are quick to place the blame for the tragedy on human - caused climate change (i.e., industrialized nations like the U.S.).