He makes a point, early in the film, of mentioning his Catholic-school education; his sacrificial torments in the name of order and family make him a lone, white, working-class Christ figure.
I am going to go ahead and say it: they have no broader publicly lauded budgetary plans, so these programs illicit a complacent nod of the head and function as a sacrificial lamb in the name of federal financial solvency.
This potentially powerful electrochemical phenomenon is also used to extend the life of steel water heaters through the use of sacrificial anode rods, so named because they are designed to dissolve and thereby protect other metallic parts; the sacrificial rod corrodes, not the water tank.
In this, Cabaret Crusades is a revelation for our age about the crisis of spirit that proceeds from war and the manipulation and trivialization of spiritualism that ensures an ample supply of sacrificial combatants in the holy war's name.
Instead it is being used as a sacrificial lamb led to slaughter in the name of more funding for climate change research and "green aviation" technology, among other programs.
In Dr. De Dreu's experiments, the five people who might be saved were nameless, but the sacrificial victim had either a Dutch or a Muslim name.
His opponent, a Russian puncher named Denis "The Pirate" Grachev, was seen as little more than a sacrificial lamb, a number to pad Sillakh's unblemished record en route to bigger names and purses.
We mustn't allow Goldman Sachs to offer up Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre, the young trader who is the only person named so far in the SEC's fraud case, as the sacrificial lamb so the Big Fish like Blankfein and the others can walk away unscathed.
Mencius argues that the King has the ability to be a genuine king and not merely a king in name only because of the compassion he displayed in sparing a frightened ox from sacrificial slaughter.
The interview was awkward throughout, although Letterman did not go near the subject of Oprah's show the previous day in which she had introduced a deranged guest named "Rachel," who said that her family worshipped the devil and made sacrificial offerings of babies.
