Sentence examples for expedient scapegoat from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, the sanctions provide an expedient scapegoat for the Iranian government: They can blame the U.S. Government for their economic problems.

Making him a scapegoat might be politically expedient but it ignores the very tangible progress he has achieved.

Typically, this led to scapegoating groups and individuals whom it seemed expedient to blame for the collapse of a highly-centralised and oracular teaching function, rather than acknowledging systemic failings in the institution itself.

It is expedient.

This expedient is hardly unprecedented.

Scapegoat women.

Impatience is expedient.

His going became expedient.

It needs a scapegoat.

The embargo may be legally expedient too.

Bill Clinton did what was expedient.