When workers and unions complained, Wal-Mart fought back in the most vigorous and intransigent fashion, blaming selfish lawyers, intrusive courts, and company "enemies" who wanted to protect inefficient competitors.
Shelly Sterling submitted her own separate response to the NBA's charges Tuesday that included a "vigorous response to the attempt by the NBA to blame her for doing nothing wrong," according to a person with knowledge of the proceedings.
BBC presenter Andrew Marr blames his recent stroke on overworking and an overly vigorous exercise session on a rowing machine.
Artfully cast as a vigorous leader who is above petty politics, Mr. Putin remains largely immune to blame.
An old-school Southern populist, Mr. Dawson blames moderation for the party's setbacks and recommends a vigorous push against illegal immigration.
In the interview, Sir John said blaming the security services for radicalisation was "specious" and offered a vigorous defence of the methods used by MI5 and MI6.
The more vigorous immune reactions they provoke include very sore arms and higher fevers, and their critics blame them for more severe side effects, though studies suggesting that are contested.
In those days period ensembles that sounded vigorous on disc often proved anemic in concert, and the instruments' antique technology was regularly blamed for mediocre performances.
On Web sites for pipe players, over-vigorous playing has also been blamed for hernias and pneumomediastinum (air pockets between the lungs).
Vigorous attempted procreation.
