Brian Sun, a lawyer for Mr. Smith, said it was irresponsible for the Justice Department to try to pin full responsibility on the former agent.

It is on Baulk that observers pin responsibility for a dilution of the original AMV brand values.

Japanese authorities arrested a property magnate today in an apparent move to begin pinning responsibility for the nation's debt crisis.

That Alice would pin responsibility on him in order to turn Noy against him was not the whole story.

The regime's attempt to pin responsibility on only a few officials soon went awry.

"Preposterous nonsense," snorted Representative Downey, just this side of apoplectic, before pinning responsibility for homelessness on what he called cuts in housing assistance.

But doctors and their employees fear that plaintiffs' lawyers will try to pin legal responsibility for recognizing warning signals on them, no matter who is collecting the data.

But as the scandal deepened and investigators found it difficult to pin responsibility directly on the various supervisors they looked at, Mr. Bratton changed his thinking.

But he quickly pinned responsibility for the worst lawlessness on the Moscow city government, run by a political rival, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

Meanwhile, Damascus will have staved off international sanctions, pinning responsibility for disarming Hezbollah on the United Nations.