Sentence examples for blame set off from inspiring English sources

The result is a political culture dominated and warped by blame.Consider the frenzy of blame set off by the awful killing of a toddler, known as Baby P, by his mother and two men.

Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down the Hutu president's plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that formally assigned blame for the crash that set off the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.

Blame it on the countdown Congress set off when it enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 to ensure balance sheet transparency, particularly around commercial real estate leases.

That set off a convoluted battle of blame and lawsuits that has left the Harmon in build-it-or-tear-it-down legal limbo.

Bienvenu Okyemi, a government spokesman, blamed a short circuit for the fire that set off the explosions.

Large cash bonuses have been blamed for encouraging the type of risk-taking that set off the global financial crisis.

It's not clear what set off the landslide, but some residents blamed limestone quarries, which they suspect may have caused cracks in the mountainside facing their villages.

Another part of the strategy seems to be to blame Mr. Shamir for the national political turmoil that his resignation helped set off.

The increase in sexual assaults over the last two years has set off a new battle over who is to blame, and the debate has become a stark and painful illustration of the convulsions racking Egypt as it tries to reinvent itself.

But when projects set off rioting, environmental regulators tend to be blamed for having allowed construction to begin.

Exiles blamed tear gas; the government said the school's staff set off explosives.The facts in a number of other recent incidents are similarly disputed.