The phrase "affair lies" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the nature or truth of a situation, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The truth of the matter is that the affair lies in the details that were overlooked."
Alternatives: "the issue resides" or "the matter is".
According to this official document, the blame for the Executive Life affair lay with former managers of Altus and the group.
The drawback with the first concert of the annual Baroque minifestival of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Friday evening, a Bach affair, lay less with the excellent performers — the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt and the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schothan than with the repertory, or rather their relationship to the repertory.
The roots of the Woerth affair lie in the apparently unconnected L'Oreal inheritance dispute.
The third right question: Does this whole sordid affair lay bare the reality that our society values white lives more than it values black lives?
Mr FitzHerbert said some of the responsibility for the increased scrutiny of charity affairs lies with the larger fundraising charities.
(1) Within the power granted to Congress to regulate the conduct of foreign affairs lies the power to deal with evils which might obstruct or embarrass our diplomatic [p106] interests.
While a dispute is growing in the Liberal Democrats over whether the government should do more to stimulate economic recovery, for many on the left, the blame for the sorry state of affairs lies squarely at the feet of timid and ineffective social democratic parties.
Gallinger claims that, when one correctly judges that a state of affairs \(p\) is possible, one is not asserting that this state of affairs lies in a third ontological realm between being and non-being (a position advocated, e.g., by Meinong, cf. his 1915).
Implementing directives in this way further encourages the public in their sceptical attitude towards the EU, and in their belief that the responsibility for this state of affairs lies with Brussels and nowhere else.
