1.   The blame was deflected from the chairman.

2.   And deflect blame if something goes wrong....

3.   And some City Council members and others have expressed concern that the efforts to deflect blame may take priority over real corrective action.

4.   Bored, with no adult supervision, the honors students abduct, torture and kill a random stranger, planting microscopic clues to deflect the blame.

5.   Aides to Kostunica said that the effort to attack Pavkovic was designed to deflect blame and undermine Kostunica, who has kept the general in office.

6.   Aides to Kostunica said the effort to attack Pavkovic was intended to deflect blame and undermine Kostunica, who has kept the general in office.

7.   Even with all the facts perhaps not in, some New Yorkers had heard enough to be stung by remarks that struck them as attempts to deflect blame.

8.   His lawyers, Tigar and Ronald Woods, tried to play off that image to deflect blame onto McVeigh.

9.   Norman Friedman, an independent navy expert in New York, said that he believes the Russian naval officials were trying to deflect the blame for their own mistakes.

10.   Officials of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, tried to deflect blame for the action, saying the breakdown increased the complications surrounding guerrilla disarmament.