A freak storm was to blame for the power outage.
She was partly to blame for failing to look as she crossed the road.
Can you tell me who is to blame for this chaos?
To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide.
This is not his fault. I am to blame for not having made the whole thing clear to him.
However, some people feel that ineffective air pollution laws are also to blame for the acid rain problem.
For some, Keynes is the hero who rescued the West from the Great Depression, for others the villain to blame for the current mess.
He also said it was difficult to find someone to blame for the loss of heritage in one of the world's richest cultural environments.
My opinion is that you are greatly to blame for playing pranks upon a man like Mr. Boldwood, merely as a pastime.
Though many believe Mr Kibaki is to blame for rigging the presidential vote, they have agreed not to press for immediate sanctions so as to give Mr Annan's negotiations a chance to succeed.
In today's connected world a badly performing website just won't cut the mustard, therefore businesses need to be able to ensure that it's not the website that's to blame for ‘lost sales’.
Part of the problem is that Democrats are identified with the notion that white men are to blame for all the world's ills, from racism to the oppression of the workers.
So when one day—in a fit of adolescent rage—I kicked my brother’s bedroom door straight off its hinges21), I knew who to blame for my behavior: “You made me this way.”
Whom to blame for the breakdown?
You are not wholly to blame for the accident.
To be clear, Facebook itself isn't to blame for the demise of domestic bliss.
The exam-oriented education system is to blame for disrespecting gender traits and needs.
This has led to a furious row over who is to blame for this costly and embarrassing debacle.
Indeed, Mr Plattner may be as much to blame for the firm's troubles as his former underling.
Asia's growing economy and a demand for higher-end housing is to blame for a general price spike in housing throughout Asia.
Russell seems too high. He isn't as good as he is portrayed as. Him being on the Lakers is mostly to blame for that though.
And though the outside world of gossip columnists and movie fans gave the blame for the failure of their marriage solely to him, yet in a curious way, between the two of them, they both knew that she was even more to blame for their divorce.
But in fact there are 8 foods to blame for 90% of allergic reactions to food: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (including Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts), fish, shellfish, soy and wheat.
The survey also shows that bed-time sugar intake, late start of brushing teeth and weak awareness of teeth care are to blame for the bad dental health among Chinese children.
He's not to blame for that.
He's just looking for someone to blame for his section's poor sales performance.
Ironically, the success of the control programs is partly to blame for the resurgence of malaria.
With friends, she sometimes alluded to a feeling that she herself was to blame for her son's predicament.
To some extent, the authors argue, women themselves are to blame for not doing enough to advance their own interests and stick up for their achievements.
Industry insiders say increased demand due to recent blizzards was partly to blame for the shortages. The country's poor natural gas reserves also are part of the cause.
The retail price of peanut oil is expected to rise by 10-20% in Q4, Guangzhou Daily reported. Poor harvests and increasing prices for raw ingredients are to blame for the looming price rise.
I also know that you still remember hating the things that happened in those days, and you asked me to say that you were to blame for all the things that happened in those years.
I am to blame for this.
He's not to blame for arriving late. He was told the wrong time for the meeting.
For one thing, we want to know who and what to blame for the mess in the Gulf.
The researchers suspect that the shape of the human ear canal may be to blame for the pain.
The accumulation of old, stagnant cells in the body is to blame for some age-related diseases, a new study has found.
Major Peter Lerner, the spokesman for Israel's military and civil authorities in the Palestinian territories says Hamas militants who seized power in Gaza last year are to blame for the situation.
But the frame of the aircraft itself is to blame for the other half: the bumpy air flow over the undercarriage and the slots and flaps of the wings creates the rest of the racket.
He could, however, tell us that he was not to blame for our current situation. So who is to blame? Me?
Most researchers around the world agree that green house gases are to blame for the disappearance of ice.
Mr Brown is partly to blame for this mess, but crisis management should have played to his strengths; instead, it revealed his worst side.
Housing Minister Jiang Weixin on Friday announced a probe had been launched into whether shoddy work linked to corruption was to blame for the large number of schools toppled.
The children were not to blame for the accident.
However, for Hong, the dry spell is not the only culprit to blame for her fish-less lake.
High dropout and incarceration rates are to blame for the discrepancy: In 1994, there were more African-America males in jail or prison than enrolled in college.
Patrice Evra has contradicted his Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson by insisting that it was the players to blame for the 1-0 defeat at Arsenal, not the referee.
It's the coalition forces who are to blame for the continuation of the war.
Ninth, the charge that "the co-operatives are to blame for the loss of oxen" is not quite in keeping with the actual conditions.
Who is to blame for our sudden travails?
The stock-market plunge has given new voice to naysayers who say the president is in part to blame for reeling financial markets.
The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome.
The academics say adverts aimed at children and a lack of time to cook proper meals may be to blame for mums and dads scoffing cheese, ice cream, beef, pizza and salty snacks.
If the industrialized world is to blame for pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, Pakistanis are also at fault for eroding their country's ability to cope with the consequences.
The government is not wholly to blame for the recession.
The holidays are a worry-filled time for a lot of people, but it turns out that you might be partially to blame for your own anxiety.
North Koreans are now better informed about the outside world, and know whom to blame for their hunger.
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