He says it's premature to pin the blame on fludarabine.
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Expect the PBMs to pin the blame on drug companies instead.
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Last month, the company attempted to pin the blame on a single employee.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appeared to pin the blame on Gen.
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The banks have tried to pin the blame on a few rogue staff.
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It is facile to pin the blame on Islam or Muslim culture alone.
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Nor was he trying to pin the blame on right-wing Trump supporters.
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Moscow and Kiev have tried to pin the blame on each other for the incident.
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A White House source told The Washington Post that Riyadh will pin the blame on Maj. Gen.
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When the government shut down, it was easier for Democrats to pin the blame on the Republicans.
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Dunham says it hurts to have people pin the blame on her for President Trump's stunning win in November.
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In Brussels, lawmakers said the ban was simply a way for Trump to pin the blame on someone else.
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On Saturday, Trump warned against being quick to pin the blame on Russia for the hacking of U.S. emails.
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As much as Trump will want to pin the blame on Democrats, the culprit will be clear: his own inaction.
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Democrats are seeking to make the premium increases a major issue in the midterms and pin the blame on Republicans.
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Government officials have refused to pin the blame on Russia for the hacks, citing the ongoing nature of the investigations.
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It takes courage to hashtag "#MeToo" knowing that celebrity bashers would pin the blame on them rather than the perpetrator.
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Many economists and businessmen pin the blame on Mr Erdogan, who has publicly badgered the bank to keep interest rates down.
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On another foreign policy matter, Trump warned against being quick to pin the blame on Russia for the hacking of U.S. emails.
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Its main defense has been to pin the blame on the two disgraced bankers rather than its culture or risk-management processes.
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Mr Trump may have done Mr Erdogan a favour by making it easier for him to pin the blame on the West.
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The Revolutionary Guards want to pin the blame on those involved in firing the missiles and be done with it, officials said.
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Economic and technological changes are making working lives more precarious; in time, more governments may choose to pin the blame on free movement.
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U.S. officials pin the blame on Iran, a charge Tehran denies June 13 - Two tankers are attacked south of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Republican leaders have tried to pin the blame on Democrats for not accepting Trump's immigration terms, despite the president's role in ending DACA.
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The deaths have sparked a political firestorm as opposition politicians sought to pin the blame on Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the state.
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No matter what goes wrong, presidents all seem to pin the blame on something else as opposed to being accountable for their own actions.
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Accused of helping to carry out an international multibillion-dollar fraud, Goldman Sachs has tried to pin the blame on a few rogue bankers.
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It's entirely possible that no matter what happens, Trump will use his platform to pin the blame on the obstructionist Congress and the liberal media.
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Even before the government officially shut down in the early hours of Saturday morning, both sides were eager to pin the blame on the other.
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It was cheap, it took advantage of a known weakness in America's election infrastructure, and it would be nearly impossible to pin the blame on anyone.
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And now Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has reached down into the political grab bag of scapegoats to pin the blame on another familiar boogeyman: video games.
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But the attack, and the U.S. administration's efforts to pin the blame on Tehran, have once again raised the prospect of a military conflict with Iran.
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Acemoglu and Restrepo pin the blame on automation: Over the last three decades, automation has destroyed more jobs than it has created, they say in one paper.
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A foreign response to damage using these means may be less painful than it otherwise would be if it is difficult to pin the blame on Iran.
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President Donald Trump sought to pin the blame on an unlikely culprit for the Dow's latest plunge on Friday: The little-known Democratic former presidential candidate Rep.
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President Donald Trump supports Republicans' short-term spending bill and will pin the blame on Democrats if it fails to pass, press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday.
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Raising money and running a funded business is so risky and so difficult at times that it would be nice to have someone to pin the blame on.
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Chuck Schumer last week, Trump declared he would be "proud to shut down the government for border security" — essentially eliminating Republicans' ability to pin the blame on Democrats.
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But Hickenlooper isn't yet ready to pin the blame on the legalization of weed -- a step he opposed but has since embraced as the choice of his constituents.
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US and China pin the blame on each other The Trump administration and China agree on at least one thing with the coronavirus crisis: It's someone else's fault.
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Before funding lapsed in December, Trump said he would be "proud" to close the government over the issue of border security — then tried to pin the blame on Democrats.
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If the economy stumbles heading into the 2020 election or if markets tank, Trump can simply pin the blame on an institution that won't fight back: The Federal Reserve.
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For now, both sides are gearing up for the possibility that a partial shutdown could take place -- and are getting ready to pin the blame on the opposing party if it happens.
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The president tried to pin the blame on Democrats, even though just last week he said he would be "proud" to claim ownership of a shutdown in a fight for the wall.
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Democrats pin the blame on Republican leaders and the White House, who they say undermined the deal and never wanted one anyway; thus the anti-abortion demands that they knew Democrats couldn't accept.
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But if the Fed is correct and growth falls well below 230 percent this year, without a single rate increase, it will be difficult for Mr. Trump to pin the blame on Mr. Powell.
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But if the Fed is correct and growth falls well below 3 percent this year, without a single rate increase, it will be difficult for Mr. Trump to pin the blame on Mr. Powell.
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"The settlement's provisions requiring a function for content creators to disclose whether the content is child-directed may have the perverse effect of allowing Google to pin the blame on content creators," he said.
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To be fair, Marco Rubio's attempt to pin the blame on Bill Clinton was just as morally perverse, but politically a bit more sensible: at least Republicans hate Clinton, whereas they love George W. Bush.
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Anger swirled about the decrepit state of New York City's subway system; despite the governor's efforts to pin the blame on Mayor Bill de Blasio, it ultimately has settled on Cuomo, where it largely belongs.
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The most prominent proponent of the birther movement, and now the GOP presidential nominee, instead lied about his role in the conspiracy theory and, without any evidence, attempted to pin the blame on Hillary Clinton.
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Many observers say it's unlikely Saudi Arabia would ever admit to any foul play, even if there's evidence showing it was involved, and that the Saudis instead might attempt to pin the blame on rogue actors.
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RSA's take: Conference organizers pin the blame on the industry, saying that 20% of overall speakers at the event will be women, even though Forrester estimates that 11 percent of cybersecurity positions are held by women.
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In the first days of the court proceedings, the prosecution sought to cast Mr. Manafort as a man driven by greed, while the defense tried to pin the blame on Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort's longtime associate.
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Citigroup only pleaded guilty in May 2015 to conspiring to manipulate currencies in order to pin the blame on Ramchandani and to limit the regulatory consequences for their senior managers and officers, the former trader alleged.
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Yet in the face of outcomes we may disagree with (Exhibit A: Brexit; Exhibit B: Trump), we can be quick to pin the blame on tech executives for failing to use their power to make a stand.
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"They tried to pin the blame on Russia, but if you think it through the poisoning of the GRU (military intelligence) colonel was only advantageous to the British," Dmitry Kiselyov, the country's top pro-Kremlin presenter said.
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Speaking soon after accepting defeat, Trump didn't shoulder the responsibility himself, nor did he pin the blame on House GOP leadership or any of the warring Republican factions' whose competing demands ultimately sunk any chance of a consensus bill.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday dismissed the most serious charge against a German soldier who had been accused of plotting to kill senior politicians because of their support for refugees, then pin the blame on asylum seekers.
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Gates' credibility on trial The heart of Manafort's defense is to undermine Gates' credibility with the jury and pin the blame on him for Manafort's alleged crimes, and his attorney implied Wednesday morning that Gates has more to hide.
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Although no group claimed responsibility for the cathedral attack, Mr. Sisi appeared to pin the blame on the Muslim Brotherhood, whose leader, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted as president by the military in 2013, and which has since been outlawed.
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"Every American knows the Republican Party controls the White House, the Senate, the House, it is their job to keep the government open," Schumer said a half-hour into the shutdown, seeking to pin the blame on the President.
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Trump wants a win more than anything else and he saw the healthcare bill as a political and publicity failure, so there's a double-incentive for him to pin the blame on the Freedom Caucus folks for having obstructed it.
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The conventional wisdom, after all, is that shutdowns look bad for the party that initiates them—the public doesn't like them, and it tends to pin the blame on whoever is taking the government hostage in an attempt to get what they want.
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The scale of medical confusion can be measured from how Doll's previous research attempted to pin the blame on literal tar in roads: Leo Burnett returns home from work at the ad agency that bears his name, to his mansion on Lake Zurich.
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Several analysts said they already saw hints that Mr. Erdogan might be exploring a face-saving retreat for both sides — for example, by allowing the crown prince to acknowledge Mr. Khashoggi's death but pin the blame on some rogue element in his government.
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The effort seemed to reflect a lack of enthusiasm among members to end an almost week-long shutdown affecting a quarter of the government, with not even congressional leaders nor the party faithful trying to pin the blame on the other side.
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Mr. Watts, who the authorities found had been having an affair with a co-worker, initially sought to pin the blame on his wife, who he said was upset after he told her he wanted to separate, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
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Former Prime Minister Najib Razak told the Free Malaysia Today online news portal that a possible pilot suicide was never ruled out but it would be "unfair and legally irresponsible" to pin the blame on Zaharie as the black boxes had not been found.
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Lam admitted Wednesday that she wasn't addressing all of the protesters' grievances, but she said violent protests were pushing Hong Kong to a dangerous situation, language that's more likely to anger pro-democracy advocates who pin the blame on Lam, who they see as dutifully loyal to Beijing.
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"At that point, the central authorities will not have room to pin the blame on local officials, given that they will have been directing the crisis response for longer than two months," the EIU note said, adding it could be why Xi is now taking "more personal control" over the crisis.
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But the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, confirmed to The Washington Post in October that he'd recently been in touch with the former Trump campaign chief as he presses ahead with a controversial campaign to pin the blame on Ukraine for meddling on Hillary Clinton's behalf in the 22001 presidential election.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the attack on Saudi oil facilities "an act of war" Wednesday, as President Donald Trump announced that he's ordered new sanctions on Tehran, the latest escalation in tensions between the two countries as US officials work to pin the blame on Iran.
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The two sources, one supporter and one critic, say the threat of a no-deal Brexit is a plan by Cummings designed to force the EU to compromise on the departure deal agreed by Johnson's predecessor Theresa May, and to pin the blame on the bloc if no new agreement can be reached.
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Ahlers began to worry he might be fired when the Catholic school found out, so, rather than come clean about improperly handling his own firearm while working at a college campus, he decided to pin the blame on someone else: a black man with a "short afro" who had shot him and fled.
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In April 20163, to pin the blame on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for a terrorist attack at a discotheque in West Berlin where a US soldier and a Turkish civilian had died and 230 were wounded, President Ronald Reagan disclosed that the US could read confidential Libyan government messages, implying that we had broken their ciphers.
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After hobbling to the pub, screaming internally for the entirety of the three-hour train journey back to London, and shuddering at the sight of stairs for a full week, I came to a decision: If I was going to do another one of these, I wasn't going to trust my own terrible decisions—I would need to pin the blame on everyone else.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency's board will meet next Monday to decide whether to accept a suite of recommendations from its compliance committee, which, with the help of a team of investigators, documented Russian actions that included not only the manipulation of drug-testing data, but also an effort to fabricate computer messages to pin the blame on the whistle-blower who exposed the country's huge, state-sponsored doping program.
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Without the stability funds aimed at mitigating that, a blame game between the parties could ramp up just ahead of the November elections, with Democrats hoping to pin the blame on actions by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE that they say have destabilized markets and caused the premium increases.
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Some northern newspapers tried to pin the blame on an imagined gang of unreconstructed Confederate officers. Most people, though, accepted that it was the result of simple carelessness on the part of workers handling wheelbarrows full of live ammunition.
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Chris bursts in outrage and the members assault him, knocking him out. Horrified, they panic and bar the door, despite the landlord being seriously hurt. Hugo calls an ambulance, much to everyone else's discontent. Eventually they all agree to pin the blame on Alistair, who has consistently riled them throughout the night.
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This, after he returned earlier in the year for Téa. Just as Blair starts to forgive Max for sleeping with Skye and they are reconciling, Todd makes sure that Max finds out about Blair's plot against him. Max throws Blair out, and she goes crazy, literally "seeing red" and shoots Max in the back. Todd helps Blair hide the evidence of the crime and pin the blame on Skye.
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Tricky tries to pin the blame on baseball player Curt Flood and the nation of Denmark, managing to obliterate the city of Copenhagen in the process. After an operation to remove his upper lip sweat gland, he is eventually assassinated by being drowned in a giant baggie filled with water, his corpse in the fetal position. Tricky ends the novel in Hell, campaigning against Satan for the position of Devil.
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Miles rejects the boy's advances, and Billy runs off, committing suicide two hours later in his bedroom. Billy leaves an unfinished suicide note addressed not to his parents, but to Miles. Jack Mack is determined to pin the blame on someone outside the family and makes allegations against Miles. Miles confronts his own nature as he faces the opprobrium of his colleagues and the homophobia of the local community and media.
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At the Eyrie, Sansa is disguised as an illegitimate daughter of Littlefinger, and Littlefinger and Lysa are married. Lysa reveals that Littlefinger had convinced her to poison her late husband Jon, and to pin the blame on the Lannisters, which was the catalyst for the events of A Game of Thrones. Lysa threatens to kill Sansa, thinking she is trying to seduce Littlefinger, but Littlefinger intervenes and, after revealing that he had only ever loved Catelyn, pushes Lysa to her death.
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The next day Chidgey has no idea that Carley thinks that they're more involved than they actually are and she isn't impressed when he flirts with Millie that night. As the night of Valleywood approaches, the group go for rehearsals but Carley is clearly troubled and can't take it anymore. She returns to the house, packs her bags and goes back to Cardiff without telling anyone. When everyone realises Carley is gone, Natalee and Chidgey pin the blame on each other.
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Frank Bradley, played by Tommy Boyle, made his first screen appearance on 8 July 1970.Little 2000, p.71. Frank and his friend Jud Johnson turned up looking for Ray Langton (Neville Buswell) and, after swearing that they were reformed characters, talked Ray into giving them a job. Ray employed Frank and Jud to build a display cabinet for Ernest Bishop's (Stephen Hancock) shop, but they stole a camera and threatened to pin the blame on Ray, unless he helped them with a robbery.
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When Heldman first told Kramer of her tournament, he stated that he would not oppose the tournament.King & Starr, p. 124. Once Kramer spoke with his friends at the USLTA, he changed his mind and decided that he would object to the tournament taking place; the women needed the governing body's backing to be allowed to proceed. The USLTA, according to King, tried to pin the blame on Perry T. Jones, the president of Southern California Tennis Association, who at the time was in a coma.
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He uses his position to pin the blame on the Phantom Thieves and order for their arrest, deeming them terrorists for hacking into EMMA. Zenkichi's daughter, Akane Hasegawa, is made a King of Kyoto's Jail when asking the app to help her after Zenkichi's been arrested for treason. Entering Kyoto's Jail upon learning of Akane's situation, the Phantom Thieves, except Futaba, are captured by Shadow Akane. Futaba requests Zenkichi's help after he is freed from custody and confronts Shadow Akane, awakening his Persona, Valjean, in the process and officially joins the Phantom Thieves.
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"'Irish have taken the point': British Envoy on Dublin bombs" , Sunday Business Post > There is no sign of any general anti-Northern Protestant reaction ... The > predictable attempt by the IRA to pin the blame on the British (British > agents, the SAS, etc) has made no headway at all. ... It is only now that > the South has experienced violence that they are reacting in the way that > the North has sought for so long. ... it would be ... a psychological > mistake for us to rub this point in. ... I think the Irish have taken the > point.
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Many of the stones of these clues are overturned by the protagonists later on in the novel. The book's plot begins after a nature photographer, Cliff Benson, is confirmed to have been killed in the woods, with his head and torso missing. His wife, Evelyn, is found covered with blood and half-crazed on a logging road and taken to a hospital, where she only has vague recollections of the events that transpired. Sheriff Les Collins is quick to close to case and pin the blame on a rogue bear.
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Jacob throws himself into his work and starts undermining authority "in his usually brash manner". But when he learns that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) want to pin the blame on him for the shooting, he "begins to unravel". Connie calms him down and after she convinces him to visit a counsellor, they almost share a kiss. The storyline concluded with Jacob's attempt to find out the name of the officer who shot him and get his revenge, after he learns that the IPCC are not taking any action against the officer.
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He claimed the companion had been locked in her room from which he freed her, whereas in reality she had been free to impersonate her employer and dupe Louise into being a witness to the "crime". The pair aimed to pin the blame on Alfred, not realising he had gone to the pub for his lunch earlier than usual and, therefore, had an alibi. When Miss Marple sees the rockery on which 'Miss Greenshaw' had been working has had plants pulled up as well as weeds, something a skilled gardener would never do, she realises her guess was correct. Alfred inherits 'Greenshaw's Folly'.
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When his family learned that he is harboring Shishio and decide to murder the child and pin the blame on the fugitive, Sōjirō uses the wakizashi Shishio gave him to slaughter his family. Soon after, once Shishio's wounds are healed, Sōjirō travels with him as his right hand and member of the Jupongatana. Sōjirō first appears in the storyline when he uses his superhuman speed to reach and assassinate government official Ōkubo Toshimichi, also killing the official's would-be samurai assassins who would historically take credit for Ōkubo's death nonetheless. Later, after Senkaku's defeat, Sōjirō duels with Kenshin using Battōjutsu with the fight ending in a tie when their swords shattered.
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Scott tried to pin the blame on Luke (supposedly because he feared that Laura had done it), and played on Luke's guilt that he may have caused Laura's mental breakdown by pushing her to remember. Luke was sentenced to life in prison but escaped and left town. Bobbie eventually broke up with Scott, because of his dirty tactics against Alexis in the run for D.A. Later, Luke returned to town and was arrested again. But Nikolas Cassadine had obtained tapes of Laura confessing to Rick Webber's murder, and Alexis used the tapes to force Scott to drop the charges against Luke, in return for Alexis dropping out of the election.
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In Edwardian England, Ivy Lexton (Joan Fontaine) is a woman with a taste for the finer things in life. Despairing of her husband Jervis's (Richard Ney), poor prospects, Ivy sees an opportunity in wealthy Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall), and is determined to have him, despite being married and having the additional obstacle of her affair with the infatuated Dr. Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles). However, because she is already married, Miles shows no interest in her. In response, Ivy tries unsuccessfully to persuade her husband to divorce her, then plans to poison him and pin the blame on Roger, clearing the way for a relationship with Miles.
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He was charged with the murder of Jacqueline Williams on 25 May. David Burgess’s trial was held at Gloucester Assizes in July 1967. During the trial, Burgess tried to pin the blame on a man called ‘MacNab’ from Reading who he claimed he had seen standing over the body of one of the girls in Blake's pit when he had gone to check the rabbit snares. He claimed he had chased the man away and MacNab had threatened him a few days later. The trial established that MacNab didn’t exist and Burgess was found guilty of the murders of Jeanette Wigmore and Jacqueline Williams on 21 July 1967.
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After smuggling the alcohol into the school and hiding it in a locker, it was discovered by Dan. Harry tried to pin the blame on Declan, but he later admitted that the bottle was his and he was suspended from Erinsborough High. As a result, Roz Challis (Janet Watson Kruse) from the DHS is forced to intervene with the Ramsay family's living arrangements and she rules that Harry is failing to adapt to his new life style and he is taken into foster care. Lou Carpenter (Tom Oliver) then offered to become the legal guardian of the Ramsay's and Paul and Toadie helped to improve Lou's image and financial situation.
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Bridges claimed that the New Zealand Police were reportedly aware of the leaker's identity. At a press conference on 15 October 2018 Bridges implied that National MP Jami-Lee Ross had leaked his (Bridges') expenses. Bridges cited a PwC report which strongly suggested that Ross had been the leaker, based on text messages sent to a Radio New Zealand reporter, the Speaker of the House, and a police officer in the Botany electorate during the leak. Bridges also rejected claims made by Ross in a series of tweets alleging that Bridges had been trying to pin the blame on him for questioning his leadership decisions.
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Two of the arresting officers testified that Officer Charles Porter began jumping up and down on the teen's back while he was handcuffed and lying face-down on the ground. Vasquez, who is 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds, was hospitalized with a lacerated liver, a ruptured spleen, damage to both kidneys and bruised or fractured ribs. He spent three days in intensive care handcuffed to the bed. Porter was charged and acquitted of felony assault charges, he was the only witness at his defense and claimed the other officers who testified against him caused the injuries during the arrest and conspired to pin the blame on him.
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Duong later stayed up to inform Khanh about the incident. With Dat’s knife in hand, Khanh ordered his men to carry Dat onto the pedicab to bring him to the police station in Dong Xuan and bring Duong to the hospital as well. However, when they arrived at the police station, Dat was dead. That night, Khanh summoned the young men who were involved in the fight to his mother’s home on Ton Duc Thang street, where he threatened them to pin the blame on Vu Quoc Dung as the one who robbed Dat’s knife and killed him. Vu Quoc Dung confessed the murder, and the police dropped the case for several years until Khanh’s arrest in 1996.
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Del suddenly remembers what else he used the paint for. The Trotters drive to the cemetery and find out where Del had been for the last couple of days: painting his mother's monument with the luminous paint, so in the middle of the night it emits a near radioactive glow. Del says that he will not bow his head to any town hall officials, but shall look them straight in the eye and say "I am the man that's responsible - and I'm proud of it." But after having a double-take at the monument, Del says that he, Rodney, and Grandad will pin the blame on vandals with Del saying "Let's get out of here before we get our collars felt!" before the credits roll.
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Ryan inspired the Doctor that they should take the roles of employees in the workforce, and he joined her in packing with Kira Arlo. After encountering the manager, Jarva Slade, Ryan, the Doctor and Yaz believed that the company's system had gone rogue and was making the small number of human workers vanish. However, when he discovered that Kira had gone missing, he led Yaz and their co-worker, Charlie Duffy, to the unmanned dispatch area via several conveyor belts. After Kira died at the hands of a delivery robot, it was revealed that Charlie had intercepted all the company's parcels and turned their bubble wrap into bombs to kill their receivers and pin the blame on the automated system to let humans get more jobs.
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Walter SchellenbergSchellenberg, who was awarded the Iron Cross for his role in the Venlo Incident the year before, flew from Berlin to Madrid, conferred with von Stohrer, then went on to Portugal to begin work. The final plan would be to entice the Windsors over the border to Spain (with the collusion of cooperative border officials since they did not have passports) and keep them there to "protect them from plotters against their lives, specifically the British Intelligence Service". He carried out scare tactics to induce the Duke's willingness to leave the villa while trying to pin the blame on the British. Schellenberg arranged for some stone-throwing against the windows of the villa while circulating rumours among the servants that the British were responsible.
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They stated that in the trial, when the defence lawyers cross-examined Mohammed Ali's brother Mohammed Rahim, they tried to make an inference and direct it so that it was someone else who did the sexual assault on Nonoi and tried to pin the blame on Mohammed Rahim, to which the three judges could not accept. The allegations of judicial inference against Justice Kan were also not accepted because from what they viewed Justice Kan's interruptions in the trial and questions posed to the witnesses and Mohammed Ali, he was trying to ascertain the full facts of the case and did not done these interruptions in such a manner such that it gave rise to prejudice against any party. In conclusion, on the facts they have found, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. A separate appeal to the President of Singapore for clemency was also turned down.
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Colin Dexter based the novel on the 1839 murder of 37-year-old Christina Collins as she travelled the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley, Staffordshire, on the Staffordshire Knot en route to London. Of the four crewmen, captain James Owen and boatman George Thomas were hanged for the murder by William Calcraft and assistant George Smith, while boatman William Ellis was transported for his involvement (following a last minute reprieve from his death sentence), and cabin boy William Muston was not charged. The evidence was largely circumstantial; the three accused were drunk at the time of the woman's death, numerous witnesses attested to Collins being distressed as the men used sexually explicit language towards her, and all four men (including the cabin boy) were seen to have lied in court in an attempt to pin the blame on each other and to escape punishment. The three accused stated that Collins jumped into the canal of her own accord and drowned, despite the fact that the water at the particular section of the canal was less than four foot in depth.
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