Companies' lack of confidence was blamed mainly on high oil prices.Oil prices failed to respond to OPEC's modest quota increase and hit ten-year highs.
The delay was being blamed mainly on the lack of security.Hoping to persuade their foreign benefactors to think beyond the immediate future, Afghan officials came to Berlin armed with a seven-year development plan and a bill of $27.6 billion.
Rising pollution has been blamed mainly on a huge increase in the number of vehicles in the city, particularly diesel-driven cars.
Agriculture is blamed frequently for biodiversity loss.
Tie-creating executives have been blamed to derive mainly personal advantages from outside directorships (e.g., Yermack 2004; Zajac 1988) and to use their boundary-spanning connections as means for managerial entrenchment (Davis 1991; Wade et al. 1990).
Tata Steel is blaming "cripplingly high electricity costs", the strong pound and low-cost competition from abroad for the loss of 720 jobs, mainly in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
Despite the many resemblances between art films and pornographic films—jump cuts, long takes, "Brechtian" acting, a cinema vérité-like grittiness, arousal of strong emotions, an exploration of the extremes of human experience and of the margins of society they argue that market forces are mainly to be blamed for the lack of overlap between the two.
They could not be blamed for having been betrayed (mainly, we presume, by noblemen who, like Count Albrecht, were exercising their droit de seigneur) but they were ostracized for having sexual relations outside of marriage.
A far worse story is that of Equitable Life, whose near-collapse in 2000 was blamed by a recent official report mainly on years of mismanagement.
Fighters from the mainly Muslim Seleka group are being blamed for a series of attacks on the Christian majority.
