21.   Party critics blame Scharping, saying he lacks charisma and is stubborn.

22.   Agriculture officials blamed a drought, but critics blamed government mismanagement and supply manipulation by unscrupulous traders.

23.   But critics blame the ruling party for the lack of judges, failure to reform the judiciary and too much control over it.

24.   Critics blame bad planning and low attendances at performances away from Covent Garden.

25.   Critics blame Moi for the decline in this once prosperous former British colony.

26.   Critics blame reforms for shifting too much power from Parliament to the prime minister and for the growth in small, single-issue parties.

27.   Critics blamed Mbeki, who has been accused of being thin-skinned and overly sensitive to criticism during his nearly two years in office.

28.   Critics have blamed early mistakes by police officers for jeopardizing the investigation, such as allowing family friends to wander about the house and asking Ramsey to search it.

29.   Critics often blame this on politically connected conglomerates that dominate business.

30.   Critics blame Meshkov for embroiling Crimea, a strategic peninsula in the Black Sea populated mostly by Russians, in a bitter struggle with the central government in Ukraine.