Sentence examples for chief scapegoat from inspiring English sources
Football keeps talking tough about ratcheting back on its violence level, but then went ahead and reinstated the bounty scandal's chief scapegoat, Gregg Williams, from his indefinite suspension, and he promptly joined the staff of the Titans.
North Korea is developing both nuclear weapons and ICBMs and China has become the chief scapegoat to many Americans.
Colvin recently was raked over the coals by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, the capital's chief scapegoat wrangler, for problems at Social Security that can largely be traced to its budget squeeze.
And after it ended with Mao Zedong's death in 1976 he was chosen to defend the chief scapegoats - the "Gang of Four" - in China's trial of the century.
When his name was read out before kickoff, he was roundly booed: the crowd did not realise he was the 22-year-old Frederico Rodrigues Santos, and assumed he was the other Fred, the 31-year-old Frederico Chaves Guedes, the Fluminense striker who was one of the chief scapegoats for the disaster of the World Cup.
When violence breaks out and crime rates soar, city councils can appear responsive not only by firing a police chief as a scapegoat but also by promising to bring in the latest craze in law enforcement.
The office of the presidency has become so potent and so polarizing — part priest-king, part ritual scapegoat — that chief executives need to represent the broadest possible coalition to have any chance of success.
In the future, if the Chief Rabbinate needs a scapegoat for Jewish assimilation, it should look no further than what most Israelis apparently find to be the unappealing inflexibility of its own tenets, which have frozen Judaism somewhere in 17th-century Poland.
It is easy to make scapegoats of chief executives, who cannot easily be held responsible for corner-cutting and negligence by employees thousands of miles away.
"We're an easy scapegoat," said Donald Blanchard, chief compliance officer of Lender Processing Services Inc., which works with 20,000 appraisers.
Some analysts said Bostock had been made a scapegoat for the chief executive, Marc Bolland, as he fights for his job.
