Sentence examples for attach blame to from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "attach blame to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of assigning responsibility for a fault or wrongdoing to someone or something.
Example: "In the aftermath of the incident, the manager was quick to attach blame to the new employee for the mistake."
Alternatives: "assign blame to" or "place blame on".

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Nor should the concept be used to attach blame to those who are not coping.

It wasn't about race, but grotty theft, and Levi David Addai's fine script eschews any attempt to attach blame to Britain, to racism, to Peckham.

I have many favourite Margaret moments: "Edinburgh isn't what it used to be", on hearing that blatherer Michael Sophocles attended university there; showing up Alex "I'm only 24" Wotherspoon by saying "You stepped so far back from it you were practically out of the room", when he tried to attach blame to a fellow team member for a failed task.

The 1928 accident inquiry did not attach blame to the Southern Railway for track maintenance or locomotive performance issues, and noted that the prototype had run for eight years over the same stretch of line without complaint.

There is talk in Nairobi that some of the recent terrorist attacks are actually the work of domestic political forces, either seeking to make a stronger case for more foreign anti-terrorism funding (some of which will presumably 'disappear' upon arrival), or to attach blame to the President and his political party for political purposes.

The guides noted the importantance of avoiding the mistakes of the past and not searching for scapegoats or trying to attach blame to minority groups.

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But he also attaches blame to many third-world governments for not undertaking domestic reform.

So far they have attached blame to Ms Skripal's mother-in-law, Theresa May, and a drone, among others.

The elections in March, which Tsvangirai won by almost forty-eight per cent to Mugabe's forty-three (forcing a runoff, since neither candidate achieved an absolute majority), were a shock to Mugabe and his supporters, and led to a rush to attach blame.

We have a low tolerance for extended uncertainty and a desire to attach blame for our suffering.

Ben-Gurion stepped down as prime minister in June 1963, angered by the results of a review of the decade-old Lavon affair that had not, in his view, attached blame adequately to those responsible for that failed and illegal operation.

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