Mr. Yang said it was too soon to try to assign blame.
"It's a very tricky play because you're going to try to assign blame," said Russ Schriefer, a Republican consultant.
And for several hours she tried to assign blame for the killing to her boyfriend, Antoine Bennaugh, they said.
"It's very tragic, and trying to assign blame isn't really something that we should be focusing on," the mayor said.
Five years after the housing market crumbled, government officials are still trying to assign blame for the problems that fueled the mortgage boom and bust.
Instead of trying to assign blame, why not seek to heal the war's lingering wounds, both on a national level and in private?
To persuade other departments that it genuinely wanted to work with them as a team player to eliminate causes of service failure, it had to cease trying to assign blame for such failures.
The South Korean government began trying to assign blame today for the recent failures of two large business deals that have raised questions about the country's commitment to economic reform.
Asked on Monday how much Clinton held the gun lobby responsible for the Littleton shootings, Joe Lockhart, the President's spokesman, said it was "premature to somehow try to assign blame". But he went on to say: "I think there is a consensus in this country that we need to do more.
There's no point trying to assign blame to any one party; all share some culpability in contributing to the situation.
Instead of finger-pointing and trying to assign blame, all of us in criminal justice, education, treatment, and government must make a collective commitment to work together.
