Clinton herself was not blamed, although she has said she accepted responsibility for the situation.
Social issues were less sensitive: immigrants were not blamed for crime as they were in Germany, say, and Britons were not especially likely to complain about cultural clashes.
When they are not being blamed for recording poor results, they are being blamed for not recording poor results.
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The report said councillors could not be blamed for not spending enough money on the centre because they were unaware of the problems.
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And Mr Yushchenko should not be blamed for some of Ukraine's most intractable problems.
The point here is that the players should not be blamed entirely for the injuries taking place.
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Now, we have begun to take collective decisions so I alone will not be blamed for them.
The Dutchman feels he should not be blamed for the troubles at Spurs, or the departure of Berbatov.
President Clinton said the banks should not be blamed, adding that the situation highlighted the need for closer co-operation.
IMF's policies could not be blamed since few countries had implemented them wholeheartedly.
Carwyn Jones has insisted that a livestock market - implicated by the Maff - should not be blamed for the spread of foot-and-mouth.
Though some are calling for Burton to step aside, he expressed relief Thursday night that the failed vote was not being blamed on him.
The MRC researchers said increased fracture rates could not be blamed on concentrations of fluoride at levels found in water supplies, even when additional fluoride was added.
Mitsushige Akino, a chief fund manager at Ichiyoshi Investment Management, says that the WiiU should NOT be blamed for the drop, rather the culprit is investor expectations.
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The only truly upbeat firms in America nowadays are the accounting giants, which for once are not being blamed for a financial disaster (this time that honour belongs to the rating agencies).
And, at the end of an era at Knowsley Road, he could not be blamed if he already had one eye on Bradford next season - and how to fatten up some hungry Bulls after a couple of lean years at Odsal.
Mr. Obama did not, then blamed Republicans for their "obstructionism" in not yielding to him.
Mr. HOGAN: The cheap dollar is part of the process, but it's not always to be blamed because there's not a constant relationship.
Prime Minster Lee, not surprisingly, blamed the deteriorating global environment in general and Europe in particular.
It expects not to be blamed by other nations for emissions it makes on their behalf.
Short blamed not only Hoon, but also Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell, for Kelly's identification.
But Pietersen could not really be blamed for playing defensively forward and getting the faintest of edges through to an ecstatic Boucher.
He has not been directly blamed for the deaths, which are being investigated.
And Mr Schily is not put off by the familiar mantra that xenophobia is not to be blamed on the foreigners concerned.
Roosevelt blamed not the arrangement but the wealthy themselves.
That seems unlikely: the Republicans will not want to be blamed for the recession.
He does not want to be blamed for restarting a crisis that he has just been praised for solving.
If a share-price crash did tip the American economy into a dive, then the Fed would inevitably be blamed for not cutting interest rates sooner.
Mr Greenspan is a skilled political operator: he knows his every utterance is scrutinised for nuances and he would not want to be blamed for publicly undermining the president's economic strategy.
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