scapegoats in English
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
Use "scapegoats" in a sentence
1. Two scapegoats would look like panic.
2. Scapegoats have been used throughout history to attempt to solve societal problems.
3. Hence the need to avoid mutual recriminations, facile accusations and scapegoats.
4. They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program.
5. They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives.
6. Demagogic governments sometimes paint foreigners as scapegoats, leading to nationalization or laws restricting foreign investment.
7. While they're suitably snotty, they don't hunt in packs - we're not talking Axi Rose's scapegoats here.
8. Mark's special relationship Blamestorming - a group process whereby participants analyse a failed project and look for scapegoats other than themselves.
9. But local authority associations, professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction.
10. Immigrant workers, easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country's economic ills(Sentencedict.com ), have been the latest victims of bigoted violence.
11. Read "Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats Allocating Blame in the Criminal Justice Process" by Hillier, Tim available from Rakuten Kobo
12. As for the violence in the ancestral cities, it was women who were its most quiet victims and most silent scapegoats.
13. Shortly thereafter, the organization evades reality and responsibility by blaming its troubles on either scapegoats or the hazards of fate.
14. Organizational performance inevitably suffers, and when this decline is no longer deniable, blame is apportioned among a few unfortunate scapegoats.
15. Scapegoats, from crony capitalists to foreign-currency manipulators, are in no short supply, but technology is increasingly fingered as a culprit.
16. He noted that "it was the Asians who were abused during these years of turmoil; they and not the Jews became the scapegoats".
17. Twain had lived in Austria during 1896, and opined that the Habsburg empire used scapegoats to maintain unity in their immensely diverse empire, namely Jews.