Sentence examples for transfer blame from inspiring English sources

Yet many analysts suggested that the deal was meant to transfer blame for the conflict to the West, while derailing sanctions that had appeared possible within weeks.

"Jaywalking," she writes, "was once a semi-derogatory term referring to country bumpkins, or 'jays,' who inefficiently meandered around American cities; by the 1920s, the term was being used to transfer blame for accidents from motorists to pedestrians".

Bettison denied that his role in an internal inquiry team from South Yorkshire police was to foment black propaganda and transfer blame for the tragedy on to the fans.

The game played lately at Enron is to transfer blame like a hot potato.

Attributing HIV symptoms to witchcraft seemed an effective mechanism to transfer "blame" from the family unit to an external force but could lead to treatment interruption.

Transferring blame for continued violence to infiltrators from Pakistan is unfair.

And there is one prominent case, 1948, in which a president succeeded in transferring blame to the Congress.

"They say I was the abomination of Obama's nation/Well, that's a pretty bad way to start a conversation," Mr. West raps on "Power," beginning at self-loathing but ending up at indignation, transferring blame from himself to others.

Similarly, Smith and Hart [ 25] reported that when threats were perceived as high, nurses often disconnected from their aggressive patient by means of withdrawal, transferring blame, shielding, or seeking peer support which was evident amongst the nurses in this study.

The reasons for this are complex, and partially reflect the pervasive stigma surrounding HIV infection, which creates an environment that is conducive to transferring blame away from an individual's own behaviour, towards an external power, so that the infected individual becomes a victim of a malevolent third party, rather than being responsible for his/her own actions [ 11].

Managers must be able to resolve issues in a way that has the least negative impact on coworkers and customers, and they must be able to accept responsibility for any problems that arise, without deflecting or transferring blame to others.