Sentence examples for blamed for failed from inspiring English sources

The building itself was the headquarters of a company whose director pleaded guilty to 13 felony fraud-related counts, and stands as a symbol of the persistent corruption that is often blamed for failed efforts to revitalize the city.

Let's have a closer look at what exactly Greece is being blamed for having failed at.

At the same time President Erdogan released new decrees to boost his powers and sacked about 2,700 academics and military figures whom he blamed for the failed coup.

After two assassination attempts against William I he prorogued Parliament and ran a campaign in which the socialists (quite unjustly) were blamed for the failed efforts to kill the emperor.

The man that Turkey's leaders have blamed for a failed coup attempt by a group of army officers is an Islamic scholar named Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and who has inspired a network said to include more than 160 charter schools in the United States.

However earlier this year, 15,200 education ministry officials lost their jobs and 21,000 private school teachers had their licences revoked, amid a crackdown on followers of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed for the failed 15 July coup.

Moreover, Copernicus can hardly be blamed for having failed to discover that the orbits of the planets were ellipses, a realization due to Kepler, whose work was very much inspired by Copernicus and who had at his disposal the painstaking observations that Tycho Brahe made after Copernicus was already dead.

The Maute were blamed for a failed bombing in November near the U.S. embassy in Manila.

Criticism of Longstreet after the war was based not only on his reputed conduct at the Battle of Gettysburg, but also intemperate remarks he made about Robert E. Lee and his strategies, such as: For years after the war Longstreet's reputation suffered and was blamed for the failed attack even though Lee ordered the advance after Longstreet's repeated advice to cancel the attack.

One possibility is that subjects are more familiar with U.S. and other Western experts, on whom their leaders most often rely, and so blame them for failed reform efforts of the past.

Republicans in Congress could shoulder most of the blame for failed fiscal cliff negotiations, according to a Washington Post/Pew Poll released Tuesday.