31.   However, a former official in the administrations of both presidents said that Salinas was merely trying to shift the blame for the problems that he left behind.

32.   If the economists are right, the Republicans can now try to shift the blame for their failure to the Democrats who voted against the constitutional amendment.

33.   In that way, he hopes to shift public blame to the White House for the continuing resolutions to keep the government running.

34.   It describes the strategies conservative pundits have used to shift the blame for the Enron scandal onto the other side of the political spectrum.

35.   Little never tried to shift the blame.

36.   Morales said tobacco companies were trying to shift blame to the state for allowing tobacco to be sold and consumed.

37.   Months of lying, of stonewalling, of trying to shift the blame and of spinning the truth have damaged his credibility beyond repair.

38.   Once again, everybody is shifting the blame, the human disaster spreads, and the Balkans remain the most endangered place in post-Cold War Europe.

39.   Other lawyers said it was unusual for a defendant in a criminal indictment to try to shift blame to an employer though a civil claim.

40.   Others have tried shifting blame elsewhere.