Sentences with phrase «become scapegoats»

In this Twitter thread, the IGDA (Independent Game Developers Association) pushed back against this unfounded causal relationship, vowing that videogames won't become scapegoats for gun violence.

In one village they become scapegoats as part of a lie that portrays them as evildoers.

But we also have to carry on plugging away at the truth: which is that in a society in which child sex abuse is a major problem, our clergy have collectively become scapegoats.

When militant Islamists become scapegoats for violence, the Mubarak regime gains brownie points from U.S. supporters for helping the fight against terrorism.

«Others become scapegoats,» writes Miroslav Volf in Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation, «concocted from our own shadows as repositories for our sins and weaknesses [and fears] so we can relish the illusion of our sinlessness and strength.»

As employment goes from stagnating to collapsing, technology and automation will become scapegoats in the way immigrants and globalization are now.

«Free - trade agreements have become a scapegoat for a lot of other forces changing the economy,» says Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

But the investigators allege that the investigation was actually an intimidation tactic against Shi launched for her suspected role as a whisteblower who spilled the beans about Glaxo's marketing tactics in China, and that they eventually became scapegoats who were arrested and imprisoned for their investigation of Shi.

BEcause your blood contains sin, and God has become the scapegoat for the evil hatred we carry.

god becomes the scapegoat for a crime an individual or group of individuals decides to commit.

He became the scapegoat for their sin, allowing humanity to lay their sins upon Him so that He might carry their sins away.

Obviously, Jews who do not believe Jesus was the messiah do not believe what Christians believe about him: that Jesus became the scapegoat and the Passover «lamb of God» to atone for our sins, thus separating sins from sinners and enabling God and us to love sinners while hating sins.

The goat which was selected by lot was offered to God as a burnt offering, while the one which was rejected became the scapegoat (Lev 16:7 - 10).

But as usually happens in such situations, people started looking for someone to blame, and in this town, because the Jewish people were seen as «outsiders under the curse of God,» they became the scapegoats.

Without the benefit of modern psychology he was unable to see how the Jews simply became a scapegoat on to whom were projected every bitter emotion of misery and revenge.

The other goat becomes a scapegoat: the total burden of all Israel's transgressions, all her corporate sins, is symbolically placed upon him and he is driven away «to a solitary land» (vv.

It's kind of like we as a Western people have said to God, «Okay, we'll take it from here» and, when things go wrong, He becomes our scapegoat.

A tiem on the bench might do Özil some good, I don't like him becoming a scapegoat, when we all know how good he can be.

BUT one player just want to be in the middle so one of them have to push to the wind so carzola become the scapegoat or nobody want the wind so our players just f uk up the play in the middle.

When Coq was brought back from his loan spell at Charlton he was just what was needed at the time and it was no coincidence Santi thrived with him beside him in the middle.He was outstanding from the new year onwards and it looked as though we had a real player I have no idea what went wrong for him at the club but those two and Ramsey was a very good balance.Sadly he seemed to become a scapegoat in his later days at the club and you question why it never happened for him after that.He was an honest player and although he was not in Gilberto class he knew his limitations and kept things simple.

Everyone was so giving him praise on here and from then Wilshere has become the scapegoat, it's always his fault that we lose or his fault that some other special players perform bad.

Its funny how these guys become the scapegoat when things go south, even though what they complain about is absolutely true.

The Welsh winger is reportedly unsettled at the Bernabeu after becoming a scapegoat with Real Madrid fans for a spell since new year which has seen the club knocked off top spot in La Liga, lose 4 - 0 to bitter rivals Atletico Madrid and almost knocked out of the Champions League after a 4 - 3 home loss to Schalke.

You say «Wenger has become a scapegoat for the board» if this was true he should of resigned long ago.

I feel that Wenger has become a scapegoat for the board as they are more than happy to abuse the dedicated support of the fans and overcharge them for a delusion.

The Brazilian had become a scapegoat among Liverpool fans after struggling to adapt from the much less physical and slower Brasileirao.

State employees are becoming scapegoats on this matter.

For a couple of weeks the NAM Summit became the scapegoat for people's sorrows; previously people complained about the price of chickens and international sanctions.

«It is especially galling in Holy Week, when Christians are remembering how Jesus himself became the scapegoat in a political battle, to see politicians vying with each other in just such a process.»

The pollen becomes the scapegoat most people end up blaming for their allergies, when really is a result of their overall toxic load.

Don't let it become the scapegoat of those who are really responsible for creating images like this and reinforcing the attitudes that lie behind them.

The naive counselor gets right into the thick of the deal, and finds himself in way over his head when the deal begins to turn sour, eventually becoming the scapegoat, leaving him to try to do the only thing he knows how to do — to negotiate a deal with those trying to kill him.

Actually, one company didn't get off scot - free: A family - run Chinese - American firm, Abacus Federal Savings Bank, became a scapegoat in the wake of larger criminality.

It's a rage - making question but, as it happens, one company was indeed targeted — a family - run Chinese - American firm that became a scapegoat in the wake of larger criminality.

In a tight - knit village where gossip does the church's police work, a girl like Eily can become a scapegoat.

Patra appears to feel the need to place blame elsewhere and Linda becomes her scapegoat.

I think that things could go one of two ways - I think that Roth IRAs could become a scapegoat, like in the LA Times piece, and Congress Republicans will be willing to throw Roth owners under a bus.

And when I say house - building, I don't necessarily mean house - builders — they're most at risk of becoming scapegoats — I mean apartment / multi-family & mixed - use / urban regeneration specialists.

Not exact matches

«Canada became an easy scapegoat for them to blame,» said Philip Vanderpol, president of MDI Holdings, the Gay Lea - Vitalus joint venture.

Over the past two decades, China has become a «scapegoat» target for American candidates; such rhetoric might serve short - term election interests, but does much to harm to the U.S. reputation and credibility in China.

How is it moral to cast off your sins, your responsibility on Jesus, who then becomes indistinguishable from a scapegoat?

Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

Kierkegaard had a unique perspective on the phenomenon of scapegoating as a result of what has become known as The Corsair Affair.

We wound others to prevent our flesh from being wounded; we scapegoat to protect our reputations; we become aggressive in guarding our comforts.

Because of their vulnerable status, it has become common to scapegoat and hurl insults at them without regard to the fact that they are human beings created in the image of God.

And because of the revelation of Jesus Christ on the cross, we have become quite good at recognizing this scapegoat mechanism when we read about it in historical documents.

Also, there was a power struggle in the background — the board vs pastor vs elder — and perhaps I became both a scapegoat and a litmus test for others.

All immigrants, not only people of Middle Eastern descent, are at risk of becoming targets of revenge, violence and scapegoating.

The Baptism of Our Lord in the Jordan This man will always draw crowds; split them too — just as this rock divides the Jordan's flow — attract, repel, become the Shepherd who inspires hosannas and the Scapegoat no good citizen of Zion could prefer to bandits like Barabbas.