1.   And all are looking to avoid blame when families stay mired in problems that are sometimes decades in the making.

2.   At other organizations, managers are all too quick to point fingers, leaving employees more concerned about avoiding blame than about achieving results.

3.   Avoid blame.

4.   Boucher, too, carefully avoided ascribing blame.

5.   Both sides seemed anxious to avoid blame for scuttling the talks.

6.   But the accusations seemed to have had little impact politically on Clinton, who continues to display a knack for personally avoiding blame for controversies dogging his administration.

7.   Combined with White House delays, it could allow him to avoid blame if there are accusations that the hearings came up empty.

8.   Ever since, these field commanders have lied to avoid blame for the Mount Carmel disaster, testified Robert Rodriguez.

9.   Like all companies, financial ones are better disciplined by a well-informed market than by twitchy regulators whose main aim is to avoid blame for the slightest mistake.

10.   Politicians of both parties prefer that technicians make it a more accurate barometer of the cost of living so they can avoid blame for trimming benefits and raising taxes.