41.   His silence came as his former colleagues, top officials of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, sought to lay the blame for the document destruction squarely on him.

42.   In the wake of the massacre, the military had sought to lay the blame on some agitators and claimed that the protesters were armed.

43.   It is all too easy to lay the blame on the currency and economic crisis.

44.   Last year she suffered a shock second round loss to Katarina Studenikova of Russia, but refused to lay the blame on her preparations at Eastbourne.

45.   Officials lay particular blame on a proposal in the U.S. Congress to resettle more Vietnamese asylum-seekers abroad.

46.   Simarmata refused to immediately lay blame solely on his students.

47.   The authorities, however, have refused to lay blame and so far no arrests have been made.

48.   The defense argued that Mazares and Pardini were trying to lay the blame on Bonnet to secure reduced sentences.

49.   The legislative report, one of three investigations into the airport opening, appears to be the only one to lay blame on government officials.

50.   The legislative report, one of three investigations into the disastrous airport opening, appears to be the only one to lay blame on individual government officials.