An attempt to lessen her own guilt and deflect blame onto you.

It was likely to deflect blame from the laboratories in Wuhan.

Were he trying to deflect blame, the easiest thing would be to say, Chechens?

Here's what I was thinking: that gorillas will lie to deflect blame from themselves.

But even at the height of the crisis, Mozilo did his best to deflect blame.

The men are also accused of preparing a false claim of responsibility to deflect blame.

The star was criticised at the time for appearing to deflect blame in the letter.

Israeli TV commentators described the accusation against Israel as an attempt to deflect blame from Hezbollah.

He has attempted to deflect blame onto China.

And a leaked EU report in April revealed the communist regime was pumping out 'fake news' to deflect blame.

Russian security chiefs last night sought to deflect blame by saying the decision to storm the school was unplanned.

Analysts have previously said the LTTE uses front groups it has established to deflect blame for civilian deaths from the mainstream leadership.

They say the three other men, who are charged as accomplices, also helped prepare a false claim of responsibility to deflect blame.

Those moves suggested the ruling party might be trying to deflect blame for the decline, which prompted a multi-billion dollar government intervention.

In the immediate aftermath of the scandal, many of the involved parties are trying to deflect blame onto each other, or plead ignorance.

Sofia, Washington and Brussels insist the six are being used as scapegoats to deflect blame from a more likely culprit -Libya's medical system.