On the other hand, I won't get blamed for dropping this catch, which is the main thing".
She quickly developed a reputation as the polished, sometimes scarily organized strategist who gets things done, compared with Mr. Axelrod's reputation as a charming but shambling personality who was widely blamed for dropping the ball on White House communication.
He was incensed that, with Knight in the sin-bin and Leicester having been awarded penalties at three consecutive scrums in the Gloucester 22, when the fourth went down, the Tigers' loosehead prop Marcos Ayerza was blamed for dropping his arm to the ground.
It's probably not an exaggeration to say that the study of French is dying in the English-speaking world; and who can blame pupils for dropping what is a difficult subject?
"To the outside public, you can see why no company wants to be associated with cheating in sports, so you can't really blame sponsors for dropping out of cycling," Bob Roll, a leading Tour commentator for OLN and a former professional cyclist, said in a telephone interview.
Twitter blamed "technical issues" for dropping British journalists from its conference.
The Internet on Saturday night was full of bloggers blaming the coach for dropping the striker who might have come off the bench to make the difference.
"A failure of law enforcement is not a failure of the law, it is a failure of enforcement," she said, blaming the FBI for "dropping the ball" by not acting on a tip it had received about the suspect in last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Never short of confidence, that potential embarrassment was probably not to blame for him dropping serve in the next game with a poor volley, and once again he hit straight back by lobbing Tomic.
The Benghazi issue is a lightning rod of Republican lawmaker critics of Clinton, who blame her and Obama for dropping their guard, so the very fact that this chapter was leaked in advance suggests a smart media operation to get the difficult issue out there early.
