This makes it possible to blame the failure on the Russians.
He later blamed the "failure of the political system" for the continuing opposition to the plan.
Still, she refused to blame her failure on the distractions.
Cadillac blamed the failure of his plan on the missionaries.
He blamed the failure to achieve more decisive results on the weather.
"The Brungar-ians may even blame their own failure on us!"
But it wasn't more than a few weeks before they were closing up shop and blaming the failure on a lack of customers.
As with most fiascoes, I blame my failure largely on you.
Thereafter he blamed his failure to finish the novel on a crisis of form.
He knew he couldn't truly blame his failure on the men who followed him.