Sentence examples for handy scapegoat from inspiring English sources
Baseball is a handy scapegoat, though not innocent, because of Jose Canseco's book.
China is a handy scapegoat, but the real blame for the rise in inflation in the rich world may lie with monetary policy closer to home.
That also gives him a handy scapegoat when things go wrong.Mr Ayrault has no ministerial experience either, but he matches the anti-elite mood.
Only Iran, which had the most generous subsidy regime, has managed a big price hike and it had a handy scapegoat in the form of sanctions.It is costing Saudi Arabia dear to burn through so much oil.
If Spain's jobless rate sticks at 20%, will voters blame the euro?A handy scapegoat"No one sold the euro as a solution to high unemployment," says Mr Galí.
He pulled out of Lebanon after 241 marines were blown up by a suicide bomber and preferred to bomb Libya – then, as now, a handy scapegoat – from the safety of 30,000ft.
And if things go wrong, there will always be a handy scapegoat--Mr Chubais, yet again.
Funny, isn't it, how Europeans make the handiest scapegoats while others remain sacrosanct?
In a region with static or negative birth rates, the Gypsies are reproducing in intimidatingly large numbers and are being seized on as the handiest scapegoats for the ills of creaky Communist societies in slow transition.
When things are this bad, scapegoats come in handy.
But what they do know is that they need a scapegoat for what ails them, and there is no one handier than a liberal, all-powerful president (who just happens to be black).
