Much of this proliferation in drugs is attributed to the failing medical system in the country.
It has dawned on the deputy prime minister that his party's thrashing at the May elections can be attributed to one major failing of his party – the proposed NHS reforms.
The injuries were attributed to the acid failing to activate the liquid into gaseous form.
There are more factors (14 categories in total), and many deaths were attributed to multiple failings.
Understood in the 1950s in relation to social problems of poverty and malnutrition, NTDs were by the end of the century more likely to be attributed to individual failings.
This directly resulted in "a policy of weakening the state", but despite undermining state governance, failures were still attributed to local failings: "the argument [made] is always the lack of management, the corruption…".
In reality, though, wage gains for the average worker have lagged behind productivity since the early 1980s, a situation that free-traders usually attribute to workers failing to retrain themselves after seeing their jobs outsourced.
In this context, the power failure was significant less for its scale than for the way it highlighted almost every failing attributed to the ruling coalition by its critics.
"People can attribute crime to failing schools, failing families; there's a bunch of sociological things you can put your finger on," said Sgt. Rich Ring, supervisor of the city's homicide unit.
Both propensities were routinely attributed to the social failings of public schools.
