31.   After the war a succession of French governments placed all blame on the Germans, treating the Vichy government as if it had been an entirely foreign creation.

32.   Boss notes in her book that there is a natural tendency to place blame when things go so wrong.

33.   But at least one abortion rights official placed blame on the broad anti-abortion movement.

34.   But Braswell is ready to place blame on whomever is at fault and he intends to find out.

35.   But he did not place blame.

36.   But he placed the blame for the incident squarely on the computer failure at the Boston center.

37.   But he placed the blame on al-Qaida and the vanquished Taliban government, which he held responsible for the war.

38.   But Dole, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, placed blame for the bloodshed firmly on Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into northern Israel.

39.   But placing the blame on quickie theme speeches is unfair, said House Republican Conference spokesman John Czwartacki, who defended the use of scripted remarks.

40.   But others place the blame for heightening racial tensions at least in part on Cochran, whose fiery closing argument suggested jurors send a message against racism.