Last month, for example, James Brown, a British reality show star and celebrity hairdresser, blamed out-of-control drinking for his own racial slurs.
The group blamed out-of-date licences, and called on the Environment Agency to revoke the most damaging ones by 2020.
The mayor of the frontline town of Popasna told the Guardian on Thursday he blamed out-of-control Cossack fighters for continuing to shell his city despite the ceasefire.
The industry accounts for 2% of the state's economy but uses 80% of its water, which it gets at subsidised rates and uses to grow, among other things, thirsty crops such as rice, alfalfa and cotton.As for energy, when Californians suffered repeated blackouts three years ago, Mr Davis blamed out-of-state companies for defrauding consumers.
Still, people in other states say California is failing to hold up its end of a long-running bargain, even as its governor, Gray Davis, blamed "out-of-state profiteers" for driving up the price of electricity and pushing the state to the brink of crisis.
Deleting countries that have disappeared or places that have always been uninhabited should be easy (the Department of Homeland Security blames out-of-date historical data for its list and says it will change it soon).
Drawing from the conceptual work of Deacon, we understand stigma as a culturally constructed and constantly changing social process, through which people project blame onto "out groups" in an emotional response to perceived danger [ 30].
Additionally, 65 people blamed stepping out on their partners for reasons on alcohol, the attraction of someone new, and the excitement of doing something forbidden.
Indeed, the fear of being wrongly blamed stood out as a key cause of workplace anxiety amongst the responses from Tanzania.
Tower Hamlets blamed the out-of-date valuations on "a backlog of applications due to resourcing issues" which it said had now been cleared.
