Too many denials of responsibility eventually make Washington and then the country wonder exactly who is in charge.

"I take it you don't believe the Romulan government's denial of responsibility."

Someone using denial of responsibility is usually attempting to avoid potential harm or pain by shifting attention away from themselves.

As well as being a denial of responsibility, this proposition was based on a false premise.

Defense Minister Lavon was blamed despite his denial of responsibility.

This type of denial often overlaps with denial of responsibility.

Denial of responsibility via language that obscures awareness of personal responsibility.

But neither sympathy nor understanding entails the denial of responsibility, and this remains true even if a person's background includes, say, discrimination and child abuse.

This put the opponent's campaign in an awkward position; public denials of responsibility for the scurrilous flyers would be implausible.

Denial of responsibility.

It is a fraternity of denial of responsibility, of inability to say mea culpa.

The board interpreted that as a denial of responsibility and an attempt to blame Mr. Falco for both shootings.

"We tried for months to reach a resolution," he said, "but were met with nothing but refusal from the other side - a complete denial of responsibility."

So no, Labour were already painted into an economic model, an economic model of consumption, debt, and a denial of responsibility by all parties.

"Disorder, mismanagement; denial of responsibility.

Despite Israeli denials of responsibility, Islamic militants have blamed Israel for the assassination and threatened reprisals.

It wasn't just the denial of responsibility, or the notion that it was morally acceptable touse someone else for one's own advantage or pleasure.

Diem's denial of responsibility for the incident-he blamed it on the communist Vietcong-led to more discontent among the Buddhist majority.

Denials of Responsibility The Israeli Government still asserts that it is wholly blameless for Monday's shootings.

Ms. Taft said feminism has been afflicted with the hallmarks of victim status: whiny denials of responsibility, and attempts to blame someone else.

It is not only some psychologists and psychiatrists who have forgotten this, but indeed a broader society that seeks measurable successes while also supporting denial of responsibility.

That engenders an attitude of systematic denial of responsibility for anything extraneous to ourselves, an egocentric withdrawal from the full implications of our own practice.

They shrink from leadership while Serbia's petty dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, perfumes his aggression with mendacious denials of responsibility.

Human rights groups immediately questioned the information and its source, citing Contreras's years of deception and denials of responsibility for human rights abuses.

The Khmers Rouges issued a denial of responsibility for the attack, blaming the Phnom Penh government for staging the incident.