It is no fault of the workers that the state has not funded the pensions properly, or that a banking crisis has caused the stockmarkets to underperform.

ECONOMIST: When pension promises become unaffordable

Ed Balls, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and some others think the weak state of the economy is partly Mr Osborne's fault, or at least something he ought to have taken more account of in drawing up his original plan.

BBC: Autumn Statement: A wintry statement of reality

When Democratic Gov. Gray Davis was recalled a few years ago and replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, instead of galvanizing the state party, it revealed the cracks and fault lines up and down the state.

NPR: What It Means to Be a California Republican

But, after he appealed, the state supreme court, in the course of its investigations, found fault with the form and procedure of three sets of evidence related to the case, and referred the case back to the court at Mehrabad Airport.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

Yet, reports by the state Commission of Correction's Medical Review Board have found some level of fault with CMC in the nine inmate deaths.

WSJ: Pa. service company probed over NY inmate deaths

"It wasn't really Sanford's fault, " said former state Rep. Dan Cooper, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

NPR: After Shootings, States Rethink Mental Health Cuts

Indeed, in the rural areas where acid violence is most common, the writ of the state is so weak, and misogyny so entrenched, that women come to believe their suffering is their fault.

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