"I don't want to lay the failures of an entire council at the feet of one individual," said Pound, who later insisted: "My sense is if Lord Coe knew about corruption he would have said something about it".
At the bottom lies the failure of the state to protect the weaker and poorer against the stronger and richer, she said.
If there's debatable evidence supporting the prosecution case, can inferences be drawn to arrive at a verdict, if so inference/speculation on the full evidence or only where you have directed us to do so (eg circumstantial evidence, lies, the failure by Ms Pryce to mention facts to the police).
But the upshot is clear: Jihad; torture; suicide bombings; terrible things done by and to American soldiers; official secrets and government lies; the failures and responsibilities of journalists, politicians, law enforcement officials and ordinary citizens in the face of terror — such matters will be hard to avoid in movie theaters between now and Christmas.
Having peddled the myth that the surge "turned things around" in Iraq - the reality is that the surge managed only to contain the worst effects of a disastrous war – the guardians of Bush's legacy await any chance to lay the Republican failure of Iraq at the feet of the Democrats.
Although these three leaders lay the blame for the failure of Rio+20 in different places, we see a recurrent theme in their visions of the way forward.
She appealed to British MPs to get the UK border control moved from Calais back to Dover and said the cause of the problem lay in the failure of European Union asylum and migration policies.
Yet in all other ways the gap between the two countries grows, and this disparity -- in status, resources and self-confidence -- lay behind the failure of the India-Pakistan summit.
It has been alleged that part of the problem over Christmas lay in the failure of most engineering drivers, not employed by Network Rail, to turn up to work to help move essential equipment on the project north of King's Cross.
