11.   Some commentators said that if the right did poorly in the European elections, as polls currently predict, Seguin would avoid blame.

12.   Spooked by polls and eager to avoid blame, Congress can also be Houdini, passing the buck while strapped in a straitjacket.

13.   The game is about avoiding blame and not taking chances.

14.   But the company cannot avoid blame for having refused to accept responsibility for its behavior after the war had ended, and for trying to cover up the incident.

15.   He condemned the IRA bombings, but avoided apportioning blame for the peace breakdown.

16.   If so, the meetings could let each side try to avoid blame by arguing that it at least had tried to bridge the differences.

17.   Legislator Rosyid Hidayat said the government could no longer avoid blame for the spate of crashes.

18.   Republicans want to finish the bill quickly to avoid blame for any problems the Pentagon might face as it juggles money to pay for U.S. peacekeepers in Kosovo.

19.   Protagonists in the Festina affair are attempting to avoid blame.

20.   Republicans want to finish the bill by then to avoid blame for any problems the Pentagon might face as it juggles money to pay for U.S. peacekeepers in Kosovo.