Sentence examples for a fall guy from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, News Corp. has a fall guy: Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett, who was hired from Time Warner in 2006, has been either terminated or was offered an inferior position and resigned.

"He's a fall guy".

And it must have a fall guy.

They wanted a fall guy.

SOMETIMES a rising star can quickly become a fall guy.

Garner was a fall guy for a bad strategy.

Lance Armstrong has attacked the hypocrisy and "petty bullshit" surrounding cycling's doping scandal, saying he feels he has been made a fall-guy for the entire sport.

Mr. Putin is still considered Russia's paramount leader, but by taking the title of prime minister, he may have deprived himself of a fall-guy-in-waiting.

Indeed, Mr Chirac may be keeping Mr Raffarin on precisely as a fall-guy for a painful health reform this summer.Mr Sarkozy, however, has argued that reforms are poorly implemented because they are poorly explained.

"We Live in Water" features a fall-guy father who has cheated a gangster and is about to pay the price for it, with his young son nearby enough to remember the event forever.

A meeting between Mr Lavrov and NATO officials did go ahead, and there were signs of rapprochement on Thursday when the two sides issued a joint statement calling for a free and fair re-run of the presidential ballot.Mr Putin is angry at being made to look foolish after throwing his lot in with a man who looks increasingly like a fall-guy.