Scapegoats

Even going back to his days with the Jets, Bowles had his scapegoats after every season.

If her spokespeople flub, they are scapegoats and very much expendable.

The AG’s contention that there is a pattern of government members using persons in her post as scapegoats whenever governance issues are highlighted to the public is misleading, at best.

The Browns are a sinking ship hiring future scapegoats.

The Jews became scapegoats and blaming them became the norm.

At the same time, such movements serve up simple, consistent storylines that give followers an easy way to navigate an increasingly chaotic world—storylines complete with enemies, scapegoats, and a heroic role for people like themselves.

Government will produce scapegoats pretty quickly, just like the last time, but also just like the last time, nothing will change.

Maybe the SFA were simply convenient scapegoats.

But the affair caused great scandal and they seem to have been made the scapegoats.

Critics of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse accuse it of grasping for scapegoats because the allegations, which were swirling when it began, turned out to have no substance.

Denying the risks and the consequences, searching for scapegoats, letting our guard down does not work.

He believes Asians had become scapegoats.

So it clearly suits him politically - especially in an election year - to deflect that criticism, and both WHO and China are perfect scapegoats for his conservative constituency.

So there's going to be a million dead and we're looking for scapegoats.

I now realise that this town vs gown blame culture unfairly targets students, who are convenient scapegoats for understandably frustrated voices.

Instead, the employee scapegoats in this top-down scenario of corruption and blame – Justin Hubbard and Stephen Rolfe – took one for the team, serving eight-month prison sentences.

It’s easy for politicians to find scapegoats when elections do not favour them.

Jewish people have for generations been discriminated against and used as scapegoats, but on the Israel-Palestine issue, people trying to discriminate against other groups are using Jews as their justification for doing so.

Patients, angry over the decline in care, point the finger at GPs, while NHS managers and politicians have shamefully allowed doctors to become the scapegoats of political and managerial incompetence.

So maybe we should believe him when he scapegoats corporations for not being able to manage the costs of his trade wars.