Sentence examples for lying at the door from inspiring English sources

Here I am rehearsing a play and there's a dead man lying at the door".' A programme to help Greenlanders, who suffer from a high level of alcoholism, was put in place with the help of Copenhagen council.

"Well, I will tell you, when it lies at the door it is full of germs.

[There are] terrible consequences that we will lay at the door of our grandchildren".

It seems an unlikely accusation to lay at the door of the man who brought us Ali G and Borat.

That is where the blame lies – at the door of our woeful welfare system and the last government who comprehensively failed to reform it".

The blame for these draconian restrictions lies at the door of the US and the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC), whose largest single donor is the US.

Some of the responsibility for the tone of the debate – and the ensuing racism – must lie at the door of politicians and their parties.

However, for me, the blame really lies at the door of those who have failed to embrace the type of change advocated in The Portas Review.

That's where the blame lies – at the door of our woeful welfare system, and the last government who comprehensively failed to reform it.

So the looting and destruction lies at the door of all sides in the Syrian conflict, along with the thieves who move in on all historic sites when the security of the state evaporates.

By the end of "The White Ribbon," there is almost no sin that we cannot, however hesitantly, lay at the door of the village juniors, and thus, by implication, at the door of their elders' conduct.