State Street, a large US bank, last month pulled out of British gilt auctions, blaming tighter financial regulation for making the bond market a tougher place to make money.

Some clinics blame poor regulation for the use of the substandard implants and say they cannot afford to remove them.

As California and New York officials try to assess the possible financial losses facing customers of the Executive Life Insurance Company, many government officials, analysts and consumer groups blame weak regulation for not preventing the insurer's financial problems.

Many officials, analysts and consumer groups blame weak regulation for not preventing Executive Life's problems.

OECD estimated that implementation of Basel III would decrease annual GDP growth by 0.05-0.15%, blaming regulation as responsible for slow recovery from the late-2000s financial crisis.

I suspect it is your employers blaming the HSE rather than actual regulation, seeing as most employers are more than happy to have kettles on site.

He might be threatening them with a bank levy that he reckons will bring in more than Labour's bonus tax (which was £3.5bn in just four months) but appeared to blame regulation rather than their behaviour.

True to neoliberal ideology, it blames administrative regulation and the protection of public services for impeding growth.

We might also expect that businesses would blame regulation for limited growth when they are asked.