Administration officials say the second phase of Obama's strategy — the equipping of proxy forces — is in its infancy, particularly in Syria, and attribute the situation in Kobani to the lack of well-trained fighters there.
It attributed the situation to a computer error, saying the wrong data had been given to assessors to calculate the value of the properties.
He attributed the situation to banks that granted easy credit, cargo companies that ordered too many vessels and investors eager for the tax-free profits that were part of the allure, thanks to German law.
Mr. Downes attributed the situation in part to a "knot of fiscal restraints" like a 1992 constitutional amendment, the Tax Payer's Bill of Rights, that was intended to restrain state spending.
Martínez attributed the situation to a double standard in U.S. immigration policy, which welcomes some Latin American immigrants with open arms while subjecting others to a seemingly discriminatory system.
The head of the group overseeing France's petroleum industry, Francis Duseux, said the situation was tense, and attributed the petrol stock problems to panic buying.
In a video posted on Facebook, Clark admitted that "logistics have been atrocious and chaotic," attributing the situation to the "nature of self-organizing" and the fact that more veterans showed up than were expected.
Some experts and riders' advocates attribute the situation, in large part, to what they contend was the city's bare-minimum effort over more than a decade to meet the requirements of the 1982 law, called the Rapid Transit Noise Code.
