Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another speaker blasted American society for its blame-shifting. "We live in a no-fault, no-guilt society. The trial of the century was O.J., but the trial of eternity is Jesus Christ.... We are sinners, we are murderers...
...nonetheless made a mistake by being alone. Calling attention to the student's actions in this way, especially with the preface "what can one say except...," implies that it is the student's behavior that needs to be changed. This suggests that the assault was, in some way, her fault...
...size kingdoms and outsize egos, used to being in charge. Dole's brigade--George Voinovich of Ohio, Pete Wilson of California, George Pataki of New York, John Engler of Michigan and Thompson of Wisconsin--have a lot in common: they are energetic, well educated, modern and ambitious to a fault. They aren't really sure how much power they have over this process; they don't understand exactly how to use it. But that just gets them talking more. As in any good Elizabethan drama, when the king begins to falter, the princes commence to plot...
...GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT LIBERALS ARE AT FAULT FOR nearly everything that is wrong with the world today, from welfare to your cat's fur balls. But you would think that liberals could not be blamed for Pat Buchanan. Yet some conservatives have even tried to pin the rise of this fiery right-winger on liberals. They note that Buchanan bases some of his screwy ideas on the work of an obscure economist, whose name he picked up from an article by the liberal journalist James Fallows. They observe that Buchanan's concerns about layoffs and middle-class insecurity (though...
Rawlins says that those members who are not affiliated with PUCC are equally at fault for the hostile atmosphere. And she says that only a handful of council members are responsible for the acrimony...