11.   Said deflects blame to collectors abroad and sometimes to foreign diplomats and U.N. officials.

12.   The family claims the real drug dealer deflected blame from himself, and onto Walter Taylor, out of fear of Mosby.

13.   They suggested that in trying to deflect the blame for intelligence failures, the American agencies may be unfairly pointing the finger at German officials.

14.   Though he is liable to offer extemporaneous remarks in postgame interviews, he seldom deflects the blame for his own lack of success.

15.   Tony Blair tried to deflect the blame onto OPEC, for example, but that only made things worse.

16.   Will the Christian Coalition be able to deflect blame in congressional defeats this year as well?

17.   Albright tried to deflect blame from President Clinton by saying he alone cannot give money to the United Nations.

18.   At the same time, Card and other senior White House advisers sought to deflect blame for the departure.

19.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic fired the four on Monday in an apparent attempt to deflect blame for recent battlefield losses.

20.   But he claims the real motive for the autopsy was to deflect blame from the hospital.