Sentence examples for at convenient targets from inspiring English sources

Politicians succeed by stirring and then manipulating strong negative emotions, directing them at convenient targets and demonizing whole groups.

An ugly undercurrent of anti-Semitism ran through some of the attacks on those supposedly sacrilegious movies, directed not at the filmmakers, none of whom were Jewish, but at the producers and studio heads who have periodically served as convenient targets for conspiracy-minded demagogues.

Couple all this with the national government's cack-handed attempts to shore up the stock market and this week's bizarre and reprehensible "confession" on state TV from a journalist for talking down the stock market – and a picture emerges of a state government unsure how to deal with financial jitters and lashing out at any convenient target.

Do only convenient targets deserve condemnation?

Secular nationalists provide convenient targets, but so do officially Islamic regimes if they engage with the West.

We are merely convenient targets for delivering a message against Maliki by certain groups, and perhaps by Maliki when he wants us to be targeted.

"Journalists covering the Ukraine crisis are convenient targets of the conflicting sides.

If you have problems in your life that you feel are beyond your control, you may lash out at an easy, convenient target, even one that has nothing to do with your real problem.

For the political Right, Obama just becomes a convenient target due to his, ironically, limited efforts at some level of economics redistributionism.

"Television is a convenient target," said Dr. Robert Whitaker, a pediatric obesity expert at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.

He added: "I'm just a convenient target".