It wasn't. Head said he does not deserve blame for inciting riots.

You blame me, but you deserve blame.

Both Greece and its creditors, the euro zone countries and the International Monetary Fund, deserve blame for the breakdown in talks.

Erdogan has hinted strongly that Gulen deserved blame in the scandal.

You deserved blame, but not all that I said.'

But there were others who deserved blame, too.

'If the nurse deserves blame she will take it meekly,' I replied.

Having done thus far justice to the humanity of Cheynel, it is proper to inquire, how far he deserves blame.

3 Or ever do that might deserve blame:

(21) Can we deserve blame for doing him a service?

But I will not bear to be threatened by any man in the world, however conscious I may be of having deserved blame.

"Your sister hardly deserves blame for that."

"Blame me not, lady," I said humbly enough, though I thought I deserved blame more than she knew.

"You gentlemen think a pretty face an excuse for every fault; and he only deserves blame who can attach himself where beauty is wanting."

"You Franks are gallant men indeed," said Blancandrin, "but your dukes and counts deserve blame when they counsel the Emperor to fight with us now."