There are fall guys in many situations people who publicly take the blame when something goes wrong.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

Some Arizona officials blame smugglers for a serious problem with kidnappings in the Phoenix area.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

Fewer people bought his books. Some people said Doctor Spock's teachings were to blame for the way young people in the nineteen sixties and seventies rebelled against the rules of society.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

The rebels blame military shelling for killing 2,000 people in the sliver of coastal land in the northeast it still holds.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

But that also means that we cannot blame the United States for every problem that arises in the hemisphere,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations said it is wrong to blame U.S.sanctions for deprivation in Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"At this point, I am less interested in identifying blame, than in fixing the problem,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Pakistani officials blame militants based in the tribal regions for much of the violence.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Ingram notes the Iranian government has an interest in deflecting blame to foreign elements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

The last time the leaders of the three countries met, in 2006, their summit in Washington was overshadowed by bickering over who was to blame for the Taliban's growing strength.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Kubysheva,a normally patient grandmother, is part of a growing number of Russians in the countryside and the city, who increasingly blame part of the massive fire damage on government mismanagement and lack of investment.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

But I think he should have seen it coming,". In congressional testimony, Bernanke has placed much of the blame for the 2008 financial meltdown on lax governmental regulation of banks and other entities as authorized by Congress, rather than the monetary policy he oversaw.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24