And they had difficulty pinpointing blame on Monsignor Lynn — a single, midlevel official — when there was evidence that other, more senior church officials, starting with the cardinal at the time, were involved in efforts to hush up the scandal.
It is this shift away from our fault-based system to one that rejects the whole notion of pinpointing blame that may, in the long run, be the most important.
None wanted to single out a particular edifice, describing it as too difficult to pinpoint blame after a design becomes reality.
The investigation, which may take up to a year, is expected to pinpoint blame in the debacle, and perhaps make former Swissair officials liable for at least some damages.
To critics, the department's decision was another example of the inability of prosecutors to pinpoint blame for a financial crisis that pushed the United States into a severe recession from which the economy is still recovering only slowly.
At no point in the system can you pinpoint blame; at no point is anyone truly responsible, because in our own little ways, we, each of us, are just as much at fault.
But the time has come, indeed is long overdue, for Pope Benedict to speak out forcefully and to take firm action against those who are sullying his papacy and wounding the moral authority of his Church, whether they be priests who sinned, bishops who covered up their sins or cardinals who can't see beyond "the Jews" in seeking to pinpoint blame for their sins.
The lawyers for the lobstermen would have had to place pinpoint blame on only one chemical as the murder weapon.
Do not pinpoint or blame specific names.
Lawyers for El Paso seized upon the testimony as evidence of sloppy research and said it signaled how weak the case was because El Paso's accusers could not pinpoint how much blame should rest with the company.
Unlike the Biblical transgression, however, the source of the curse that dogs an Asante woman's descendants through seven generations defies pinpointing and straightforward assessments of blame; you might as well shun your own hand.
