The company also blamed factors outside its control, like warm weather, a weak housing market and stiff retail competition.
"We are obviously disappointed" in the earnings, said Scott Livengood, the company's chairman and chief executive, who blamed factors including high oil prices, diet-conscious consumers and the growth of Wal-Mart for the results.
Shipping companies blame factors outside their control for their climate impact, in particular a tripling in demand for shipping over the past 40 years.
Mr. Lazio's consultants sought yesterday to blame factors beyond their control for his loss in a race that had been followed by Republicans across the country.
The uninformed tend to blame factors like undue stress, too much exercise, being too thin or too fat, exposure to occupational or environmental toxins, excessive use of computers or cellphones and bad habits like smoking or drinking too much coffee.
ITV, which took the unusual step of organising a call with analysts to reassure investors, brushed off concerns by blaming factors including the "lumpy" nature of broadcasters' timing of when to air shows.
Some terminate their pregnancies and often blame factors outside their control for their decisions, from economic constraints to pressures from husband and in-laws etc.
Taking up the concern expressed by development anthropologist David Mosse [ 14], we seek to move away from evaluation approaches that place the onus of success or failure solely on the beliefs and behaviours of target communities, with disappointing results explained by blaming factors such as local culture, lack of support by local political leaders or technical minutiae of programme messages.
With respect to psychosocial factors, worse outcomes have been found for workers who blamed work factors for their pain (as opposed to blaming themselves or other factors), rated their relations with coworkers as poor, or had low expectations of recovery [ 17, 22, 23].
Lucent blamed several factors for its financial woes.
Bishop Murphy's homily, which he described as a Mass of "forgiveness, healing and reconciliation," blamed various factors for the scandal.
