How To Use Blamed In A Sentence
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He initially admitted having had three pints of beer but then blamed his drunkenness on the cake.
The Sun
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The crash has previously been blamed on technical faults and human error.
The Sun
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For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
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The government has been widely blamed for the crisis.
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An ineffective flu jab given to millions of elderly people last year has been blamed for a record number of deaths over the winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seriously though, Rufus knew that the problems commonly blamed on rye occur when the grain is moldy and has ergot, so he was careful never to buy moldy rye.
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Optus blamed "lower usage and rates for international inpayment traffic.
ITnews Australia
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Foul drinking water was blamed for the epidemic.
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Both sides blamed each other for the breakdown of talks.
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Mugabe has blamed his country's woes on former coloniser Britain and other Western nations.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The cheque took 11 days to arrive and the letter blamed human error for the delay in sending a replacement.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The principal and his henchmen blamed us for fermenting trouble and putting dangerous ideas in the heads of young people,’ he says.
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The three visiting prime ministers also met with their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who blamed Ukraine for failure to honor a multilateral agreement to resume shipment of gas to Europe.
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US Airways blamed a record number of employee sick-outs for the problem.
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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Pals blamed hectic work schedules for end of their relationship.
The Sun
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The Justice Department has blamed a computer virus for the delay.
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She blamed him for the failure of their marriage/blamed the failure of their marriage on him.
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But the PDP blamed its failure on what it described as irreconcilable differences and divisions in the state chapter of the party.
Thisday Online
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People have blamed this phenomena on many things.
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An administrative error has been blamed for robbing Bradford of the title of Britain's curry capital - to the fury of its restaurateurs.
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Rising ticket prices had been blamed on fare dodgers in the past.
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The whole situation had been blamed on me, so for the whole day I was getting dirty looks from the general student body.
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The government too had to be blamed as a portion of the lake was allotted for sale.
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The discovery of a host of rare and exotic mushrooms spreading across the nation will be blamed on a new habitat created by gardeners' wood chippings, at a meeting of ecologists in the new year.
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The charity blamed the increase on the growing popularity of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nixon blamed the "overzealousness" of a Highway Patrol unit and revealed that no one in his administration had reviewed the report before it was distributed to police statewide.
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And although Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton yesterday blamed regulatory issues for the collapse of the deal, insiders have suggested that further improvements in the economic climate - and in Rio's financial position - since the scheme was proposed left Rio management feeling the terms unduly favoured BHP.
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But we hear budget constraints and disappointing viewing figures have been blamed for the decision not to recommission the series.
The Sun
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Advertising has also been blamed for maintenance of a contentious concept that long-haired, fair-skinned women with aquiline noses have the monopoly on attractiveness.
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Conflict has simplistically been blamed on stock-thieves, but police have also been accused of taking sies, and Mhlaba has alleged organised crime and politics also fueled the conflict.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Poor sentiment towards the technology sector was also blamed for the lacklustre performance.
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The store blamed a computer glitch.
The Sun
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He blamed his parents. Mostly he blamed his dad.
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While he blamed the press for his bad publicity, he was his own worst enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I blamed the lack of flowering and the anemic show of leaves on poor soil.
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(Earlier this month, McCain blamed the high prices on Washington politicians.)
The False Messiah Argument - Swampland - TIME.com
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Too often the unemployed blamed themselves rather than society for what they saw as their failures, for the shifts and stratagems by which they were forced to survive.
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After news of this new court case Ford broke down again, though he blamed the breakdown on his work.
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The mishap with the bus did not help but it cannot be blamed totally for this dismal performance.
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Operations intended to be plausibly deniable usually end up as neither, and the Agency gets blamed for the unintended consequences.
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Local teenagers blamed the disturbances on boredom, and what they see as a total lack of things for them to do in the area.
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Better be blamed by our kith and kin, than be kissed by the enemy.
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And ixnay on Yet Another Xenophobia aimed at particular trading partners, falsely blamed for our economic woes.
William Easterly: The Coffee Party Manifesto
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Declines in seabird populations (kittiwakes, boobies, cormorants, pelicans) have also been blamed on depletion of the fish stocks that they feed on.
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Ambulance chiefs blamed a national shortage of paramedics and call handlers for the delays.
Times, Sunday Times
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NorthLink blamed the exceptionally low tides and easterly gales, which left an insufficient depth of water at Aberdeen for vessels.
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A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
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All the world — meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church — knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a snug sinecure, but no one had ever been blamed for accepting it.
The Warden
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He knew that his hand shook, and his brain reeled, and his eyes were bleared; but he never blamed the whiskey.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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Attacks in the night on sleeping humans are being blamed on the disappearance of animal prey as the rainforest is cut down.
The Sun
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Wind and ice were blamed for the collision involving up to 12 vehicles.
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But that -- as you said, there is a lot increase in violence in Afghanistan, and that's really blamed on an insurge of -- increase in Taliban activity.
CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2006
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In turn the eels' decline is blamed on changes in the distribution of plankton as a result of warmer seas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins.
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Both had blamed each other for the crash and shirtfronted one another in a confrontation seen by the national TV audience watching the event.
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This interpretation implies that irrationalism is blamed on the dark side of the positivistic Enlightenment, rather than arguing that German fascism arises out of lebensphilosophie as the other of reason.
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The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender.
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It also blamed the sometimes unnecessary inclusion of Mexico from preventing more meaningful Canada-U.S. bilateralism.
The SPP: Three's Company or Three's a Crowd?
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Mr Crausby blamed changes to the benefits payment system for the decline of day-to-day post office business.
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Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.
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The women had worn heavy metal belts that were blamed if the alarms sounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Foul drinking water was blamed for the epidemic.
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Sivak and Schoettle found that in 2005, 2,369 fatal accidents were blamed on "inattentive" driving – including eating, talking or using a phone.
New Puzzle: Why Fewer are Killed in Car Crashes
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He blamed her for their getting married and taking his mind off staying in shape so he could try out at some school as a walk-on.
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
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He blamed lack of parental control for the young tearaways' behaviour.
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Accidents that have been happening as a result of the failed traffic lights should be blamed on the council.
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Officials blamed the situation on an unprecedented rise in emergency cases.
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Residents blamed refuse collections being made fortnightly instead of weekly.
The Sun
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Late Friday, the military rulers issued a stern warning that they will crack down on what they called "deviant groups," which they blamed for a spike in crime and violence.
Mubarak's wife in hospital after arrest
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Tourists have also been blamed for damaging its coral reefs and marine fauna.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heavy rain was last night blamed for causing a landslide that led to a passenger train derailing on one of Britain's busiest routes.
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Insurance firms blamed the increase on more personal injury claims, fraud and the number of uninsured drivers.
The Sun
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Last year biofuels were blamed for soaring food prices and the use of food for fuel has become political dynamite in some countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few approved highly of my conduct; while many not only blamed, but publicly derided me, for what they termed a ridiculous weakness.
Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam.
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We are the ones who are muddling through and getting crapped on by the media all the time and harped to raise our kids right and blamed if they don't turn out to be perfect little citizens, so yes, a little push back on our behalf is welcome.
The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
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Last year biofuels were blamed for soaring food prices and the use of food for fuel has become political dynamite in some countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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We who have paid in all our working lives are already getting blamed for bed-blocking.
The Sun
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The governor of Leyte island blamed the government for failing to impose a total logging ban.
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No one blamed the father, the king, the president for mistreatment by his minions.
The Tribes Triumphant
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Two ravers are discussing how ridiculous it is that videogames are blamed for inciting killing sprees.
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The employees' problems are blamed on the black-hearted publisher rather than on the ideological system.
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She blamed a quadricep injury before the 2004 Athens Olympics for destroying her chances in a race that she dropped out of with four miles to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Germans blamed the defeat on the fog hampering observations, as well as the artillery barrage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overcrowding and lax security were blamed for the escape.
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Attacks in the night on sleeping humans are being blamed on the disappearance of animal prey as the rainforest is cut down.
The Sun
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This makes it larger than the asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is widely blamed for the demise of the dinosaurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cabbie said, Listen mate, I can't be blamed if they've got roadworks at Hyde Park Corner.
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In the past year, it has blamed a harsh winter and then an unseasonably warm Easter for slack trade.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was some days before I saw her: and this intervenient space giving me time to reperuse what I had written, I thought it proper to lay that aside, and to write in a style a little less fervent; for you would have blamed me, I knew, for the freedom of some of my expressions,
Clarissa Harlowe
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I'm the blamedest idiot out of an asylum," he cried bitterly.
A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
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Environmental protection Overpopulation in the Majority World has often been blamed for ecological catastrophe.
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Days of heavy rain and a sudden melt of snow on the North York Moors were blamed for the rapidly-rising river levels.
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One lady blamed the library for her sleepless nights, claiming once she has borrowed a good book she stays up all night till she finishes it.
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The cops blamed criminals for ramming their cars.
The Sun
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Some commentators still blamed working men's improvidence for forcing their wives out to work, but social investigators increasingly documented the fact that most men simply could not earn a breadwinner wage.
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The acceleration in the decline of manufacturing industry is being blamed on the high value of sterling.
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They are also blamed for an increase in motorcycle theft in the city.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is impossible not to feel sympathy for those caught up in this mess - few of whom can be blamed for their predicament.
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Britain's recent dearth of sporting champions has also been blamed on schemes that oppose competitiveness.
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Driver error is blamed for 95% of crashes, with 25% due specifically to driver distraction (such as yammering into a cell phone).
Decaffeinated
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The Executive blamed the US slowdown and the shake-out in global electronics.
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That this could no longer happen was squarely blamed on Paul.
The Sun
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His fellow Republicans ignored him and were about to let his expire, but fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell realized they needed him to maintain his hold on the bill if they were to keep up their obstructionist agenda without anyone useful getting blamed for it.
Think Progress » Bunning Whines About Missing Basketball Game, Tells Dems ‘Tough Sh*t’ On Unemployment Benefits
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A fall in the number of children boarding at private schools has been blamed on Government-imposed costs.
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Typical Edinburgh stand-offishness is being blamed for its failure.
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The charity blamed the increase on the growing popularity of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He, for example, blamed the UN for the ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident in Somalia, even though that was an operation conducted without informing the UN forces, which, unthanked to this day, rescued the survivors.
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He blamed it on the fact that he was a naturally shy person, around pretty girls especially.
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TS Moorhouse blamed part of the problem on motorists who failed to adapt to the conditions.
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The recent epidemic of car thefts has been blamed on bored teenagers.
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However, this is only my revenge for much exasperation and deploration that they would never come away from their pestiferous walls, -- where, after all, they had a right to stay, and will not be blamed by the candid and unbebullet-whizzed reader that they did stay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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Mr. Obama blamed the economy's weakness on the downturn in Europe, slow job growth and what he called the "debacle" of this past summer's debt ceiling negotiations.
NYT > Home Page
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Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
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The company blamed the "short-term horrors" of the economic downturn, including a slump in advertising, for the cuts which will take a toll of 15 per cent of its workforce and the closure of a studio in Leeds.
Undefined
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He has blamed his rampage on a reaction to prescription medicine.
The Sun
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Officers are desperate to reinforce the message that ecstasy kills, after medical researchers blamed a sixfold increase in deaths from the drug on the drop in its price.
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He was blamed by his teacher and assured him that he won't go to gambling casino again.
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He blamed money for corrupting the Church.
Times, Sunday Times
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It blamed a naval blockade by Saudi Arabia and its allies for deepening the humanitarian crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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That this could no longer happen was squarely blamed on Paul.
The Sun
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And he blamed the Conservatives for what he characterized as frittering away the $12-billion surplus they inherited from Martin's administration in 2006.
Top Stories - Google News
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The increase is blamed on consular services at British embassies worldwide.
The Sun
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I hear that Mel Gibson allegedly blamed what he called depressed and "whacky" behavior on "male menopause.
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Pressure for his resignation has been building since Monday, when a government commission blamed Mr. Olmert for what it called his severe failures during Israel's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas last summer.
CNN Transcript May 2, 2007
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It blamed the fall on lower petrochemicals and metals prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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One car was blown off the road by a gust of wind, and some suffered from mechanical glitches blamed on the outback's dust clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The regulation has also been blamed by an official inquiry for contributing to unnecessary hospital deaths.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a World War II veteran in Italy, France, Germany and the Philippines, and he blamed it on shellshock.
Reconsidering The 'Culture Of Poverty'
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(Soundbite of song) Unidentified Woman (Singer): (Singing) ... blamed him from wanting an allegro.
The Hammersteins' Path From Brooms to Broadway
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If someone refuses to watch another TV news besides Fox news and they represent58 million or 45% of the total number of American voters who voted in the November 2008 election, we're in for a pack of trouble since theymay likelyresort to much more radical measures like staging some kind of a false flag attack on US soil in which the Islamic militants are blamed or perhaps aKennedy style coup.
How Do We Reach The Rightwing Who Hate Obama and Condemn Katie Couric ?
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The company blamed "unfair competition" by go! airlines, whose June 2006 entry into the interisland market kicked off a price war in which the cost of travel to the Neighbor Islands dropped by about half to $39.
Aloha Air halting passenger service after 62 years
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But many blamed his nebulous ideas for the party's failure to win an outright majority.
Times, Sunday Times
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They blamed their defeat on the media's one-sided reporting of the election campaign.
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Even the power smirk, which we haven't seen much of since he was - unfairly - blamed for single-handedly jeopardising Labour's election chances with his mingy Budget, is back.
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The explosions were blamed on either leaking ammonia - the coolant involved in both cases - or overheating.
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Betjeman refused and blamed Waugh in part for the estrangement in his marriage.
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Industry spokesmen blamed the crisis on shortages of investment capital and excessive labor costs.
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He blamed each of the shock blasts that had entrapped his recent life on the faces of the patrol.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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An ambulance service spokesman blamed the icy driving conditions.
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Métraux, too, blamed the "hideous atrocities" of foreign slavers for the near-extermination of Rapa Nui's people.
Don't Blame the Natives
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The French have been blamed by loyalist mobs for brokering a recent peace deal that the government supporters say concedes too much to the rebels.
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He was blamed for a change in directors and a runaway budget though he disclaimed responsibility for either.
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But he was invalided out in 1991 with knee problems which doctors blamed climbing ships' ladders.
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Any offence against sartorial elegance should not be blamed on the lack of a tie, but a poor and archaic choice of dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The state government blamed cold and rainy weather for the programme's shortcomings.
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The explosion is being blamed on a phenomenon called flashback, where the flame burns too quickly for the gas flowing inside the boiler, so is sucked back to the gas supply, causing the explosion.
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Some of the explorers died during subsequent skirmishes, but in nothing like the numbers of the natives who suffered from introduced scourges like syphilis, which the French and the British always sanctimoniously blamed on each other.
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The $12 tax on each one-way ticket has been blamed for depressing demand on short-run flights.
Globe and Mail
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Julia Morley said the contest had been used as a ‘political football’ and blamed a Nigerian journalist for inflaming the situation.
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Bosses also blamed the high Japanese yen for the poor results.
The Sun
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Amanda Rose (@amanda) - Founder, @twestival drew olanoff (@drew) - #BlameDrewsCancer
The Jeff Pulver Blog
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Some want to slow down the repeal effort until a replacement plan is unveiled, afraid that they could be blamed for stripping healthcare from 18 million people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, one thing's sure," said Horace Guester. "if it wasn't for knackery Alvin wouldn't be in this blamed fix.
Alvin Journeyman
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The slowing housing market has been blamed in part for the national consumer caution, particularly with big-ticket items, such as white electricals and furniture.
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Cars and alien shrubs are being blamed for the mysterious disappearance of house sparrows from British towns and cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feral children are blamed for a quarter of all street assaults and robberies.
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Nay, by these things He signified, that the uncandid soul is not even thereby persuaded; and He made it plain that His disciples too were blamed by them without cause.
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Its concrete surface is the most soporific in the UK, and has been blamed for lulling drivers to sleep.
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Much as he had blamed Mr. Duncan for negligence in not manumitting her mother, he had fallen into the same snare.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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He blamed much of the world's tensions on what he called undemocratic and unjust governance.
UN Summit Aims to Reduce Poverty, Hunger and Disease
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Legal papers blamed underinvestment, unsuitable new locations and high costs.
The Sun
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A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
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I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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Human error has been blamed for the air crash.
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A weaker global economy and restructuring costs were blamed for the decline.
Times, Sunday Times
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They promptly blamed each other for driving him away, and stormed off in opposite directions in the vain hope of finding their way back to the palace.
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Strong winds were blamed for the crash of a single-engine plane used to drop retardant on fires 220 miles south of Sydney.
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The publisher blamed the losses on a lack of advertising, particularly among those Marshalltown merchants who were biased against Latinos.
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He blamed a tripling of serious attacks on teachers on the government's edict to schools not to exclude violent pupils.
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Government had "juggled" some figures to suggest certain categories of crime were diminishing; displaced responsibility for crime prevention to citizens; and had blamed sociological factors, particularly South Africa's traumatic apartheid past, for the crime epidemic.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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We blamed the accident on her
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An ineffective flu jab given to millions of elderly people last year has been blamed for a record number of deaths over the winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police and ambulance staff found injuries to his chest and back but his death was blamed on complications from gall bladder surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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While his death is blamed on an inflammation of the lungs and heart, doctors say sleep apnea was also a factor.
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A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap.
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If something went wrong in a village or town, the misformed were usually blamed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He learns that laborers there work in fields routinely sprayed with the highly toxic pesticide methyl bromide, which is blamed for appalling deformities in their children.
NPR Topics: News
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It was some days before I saw her: and this intervenient space giving me time to reperuse what I had written, I thought it proper to lay that aside, and to write in a style a little less fervent; for you would have blamed me, I knew, for the freedom of some of my expressions,
Clarissa Harlowe
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In a masterful bit of understatement, Feinstein blamed [millions of dollars in losses] on “noticeably subpar” food and service.
Food Fight « Isegoria
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Rail watchdogs blamed the overcrowding on a combination of train operator One's unpopular new timetable and shortage of serviceable rolling stock.
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Rendell said that while he continued to support the death penalty as a deterrent if it is carried out "in an expeditious way," he blamed what he called the appeals system for delays that have lasted decades.
Phillies Zone
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As the Orthodox 40-day period of mourning to mark the death of more than 350 people in the siege came to an end, she found herself blamed by many locals for the tragedy.
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When he took the stand, King admitted the rider to the contract was phony but denied responsibility and blamed co-workers.
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Investigators have blamed oil leaks triggered by faulty parts in the engines - prompting the replacement programme.
The Sun
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Plant officials blamed dust in the gas.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Helen is blamed for causing the Trojan War because the Greeks and Trojans were fighting over her.
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How can such dissimulation (I use that term gingerly) then be blamed on the ones being taught?
Mormon Stories Podcast Archive
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Kim, who claimed Olympic gold with world record scores, saw her hopes of defending her world title dwindle as she blamed foot problems for placing over ten points behind US teenager Mirai Nagasu who leads going into Saturday's free skating final.
Raw Story
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He, who blamed the end of his marriage on the loss of his house, later moved into a tiny flat and began plaguing him with letters asking for support.
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The shortage of teachers was blamed on government cutbacks.
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If you goof up continually, then he or she will be blamed for sending you unprepared.
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It has been blamed for causing small tremors.
Times, Sunday Times
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On my return from America I crept round Homer's apartment as if frightened my foot would indent the carpet too much and I would be blamed.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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The increase has been blamed on the rise of the Internet, electronic services and computerised storage of information turning data protection and privacy into a hot topic.
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While some locals have ascribed the lights to UFOs, others blamed swarms of fireflies or even glow-worms.
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To a lesser extent they blamed adverse family factors and the strictness of the school regime.
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And, blamed idiots that we were, we sat on stringpieces and old logs and fence rails and damp grass and shifted our rapidly decreasing weight.
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The Cape Argus reported on its front page on Tuesday that among the animals affected were bontebok, springbuck, fallow deer and rabbits, and that environmentalists blamed neglect by the museum, which manages the island.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life
