Sentence examples for risk blame from inspiring English sources

If a Miliband administration got into trouble, any SNP "agreement", however loose, could risk blame coming their way.

In Egypt — as in most of the world — women who suffer sexual harassment keep quiet; they don't want to risk blame or humiliation.

That would force Speaker John A. Boehner to decide at the 11th hour whether to hold a House vote on a bill that would not get many Republican votes, forcing him to rely on Democrats and perhaps further weaken his leadership, or to risk blame for an economic crisis.

An aide to Congressional Democratic leaders said, "The White House just went all in and closed off the House G.O.P.'s hoped-for exit ramp"— that is, Republicans' belief that Mr. Obama would ultimately would give in rather than risk blame if payroll taxes went up for millions on Jan . 1

Lauta (2014a) identifies and attempts to address a conflict between the functions respectively of the stick and the carrot in distributing risk, blame and responsibility fairly and expeditiously in society.

In addition to systematic failures in financial regulation and misconceptions of risk, blame has sometimes been levied against individuals with limited financial knowledge for contributing to the recession.

Lenny Henry has taken issue with the BBC's new initiatives to improve diversity in TV, saying they risk "blaming the victim".

Henry, who has agreed to join a BBC diversity action group panel chaired by Hall, has welcomed the BBC's commitment to diversity training but expressed concern that the BAME development fund risked "blaming the victim for their victimhood".

Bob Herbert ("Saturated With Violence," column, Oct. 28) makes a crucial point, but his conclusion that "it's the rest of us who have tolerated, encouraged, even embraced" a culture of violence risks blaming the victim, the witnesses who are barraged with more violence than it is possible to absorb and respond to with compassion.

Blame was often placed on mothers, including a risk of blame for misaligned paternity.

"And my attack operations against his Labour rivals and Tory enemies were usually both effective and feared, with me willingly taking all the potential risk and blame".