Sentence examples for shift blame away from inspiring English sources

Keith Yamashita of the SY Partners consultancy says that when leaders ask about fault, they're often trying to shift blame away from themselves.

In a seven-page rebuttal, Rwanda called the report "a calculated move to shift blame away" from Congo and the international community, "both of whom have failed to resolve the conflict".

Ms. Graham's lawyer, Maria Shohat, said her client was a caring guardian despite her past problems and criminal record and that removing Rilya's sister from her house was a way to shift blame away from the agency.

They sought to shift blame away from their institutions and lay it on mortgage lending practices, under-regulation of the mortgage broking industry and the government's promotion of home ownership.

"There is a tendency to transfer responsibility for problems to foreigners, so as to placate a guilty conscience and shift blame away from a national state" that has long treated the area as a stepchild.

A spokesman for Ford, Jon Harmon, said today that the automaker had not suggested to regulators that they issue the advisory so as to shift blame away from Ford.

That explanation conveniently shifts blame away from themselves, and avoids any tough questions about where the party has failed.

Stakeholders shifting blame away from themselves and onto others when things are going wrong isn't unique to men's college basketball.

Even President Obama weighed in, shifting blame away from his  administration's policies.

Do not add the feelings you think you incited in the other person ("I'm sorry you misunderstood me" or "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt"); doing so shifts blame away from you, which is the opposite of taking responsibility for your actions.

Coca-Cola got caught funding scientists who shift blame for obesity away from bad diets.