Sentence examples for ready scapegoat from inspiring English sources

Not because conservatives and liberals alike will lose a ready scapegoat: there will be others upon whom to load our discontent.

But at the time, the surgeon was such a ready scapegoat that I could push the uneasy question about Dr. Yale aside.

There was a ready-made scapegoat: the clothing manufacturer, Nike.

But the right has largely left the more esoteric realms of culture alone, except as a ready-made scapegoat for America's declining values.

In the country's present hypernationalist mood, every kind of other is a suspicious figure, a ready-made scapegoat for any failure that befalls the politicians determined to make India great again: the secessionist Kashmiri, the impure Dalit, the traitorous beef-eating Muslim, the woman who speaks her mind, the anti-national journalist, the dissenting writer.

If the Pittsburgh Penguins fail in the Stanley Cup finals -- which begin today -- they have a ready-made scapegoat.

It's a simple and effective pitch, with a ready set of scapegoats.

His followers may be misguided, and Trump is all too ready to offer them scapegoats, but they instinctively sense that there is something deeply wrong with the status quo.

Jeff Van Gundy recognized what was happening, that several of his players, fearing their own failure, were ready to make Ewing their scapegoat.

The chapter recounts how Mann's words were reinterpreted and spoon fed to a lazy, financially stressed, and incompetent media that was all too ready to trumpet a good scapegoating.

Fiery, fact-agnostic proclamations and ready assignment of blame for the scapegoat du jour fails to address why so many people feel left behind, bewildered, and susceptible to propaganda that promises easy fixes.