Sentences with phrase «convenient scapegoat»

All cats, and feral cats in particular, have become convenient scapegoats for the loss of many species, especially songbirds.

Scratch a little deeper though, says Mariki, and it becomes clear that the animals are often just convenient scapegoats.

Most social hardship is caused by their misguided neoliberal economic policies, but migrants represent convenient scapegoats for low - paid labour and struggling public services.

Soon after Medvedev's comments, a former high - ranking Russian officer found a more convenient scapegoat in a remote Alaskan radar facility.

Some are just a convenient scapegoat by public employees unions that are seeing their benefits cut.

A priest who is accused of even one incident» even if it was no more than a misunderstood hug, and even if that was twenty or thirty years ago» and has given his life in faithful service to the people of God ever since, is rudely thrown out, not because he poses a credible threat to anyone but because he is a convenient scapegoat for bishops who, after years of laxity, now want to look tough.

Thank you for doing the work of the ministry, unthanked, often misunderstood, the convenient scapegoat at times.

The church (and religion) is just a convenient scapegoat — people will find a way to justify what they want to do, always.

Increasingly it seemed to him that, far from being a source of strength and encouragement for living, God was a convenient scapegoat whom he blamed for the state of his life.

When Dodger general manager Al Campanis made similarly demeaning comments back in 1987, he became a convenient scapegoat.

Ruling elites in the Western world have recently identified a convenient scapegoat explaining all their failures: they call it populism.

A right / left wing extremist is just a person who has some associations with a demonized group of people and is a convenient scapegoat to make the left / right appear favorable for upcoming elections.

A convenient scapegoat for the failures for the Arab leaders - who mostly were dictatorship were more sensible voices would not be heard -.

Or are «they» just a convenient scapegoat for poor policy - making procedures?

Supporters of the Common Core have expressed frustration at the mounting opposition, saying the standards have become a convenient scapegoat for anything anyone doesn't like about education today.

Constantly changing tests (or using tests as a convenient scapegoat when political blowback against Common Core gets too strong) is a policy response that undermines the goals of standards - based reform in all the ways I have identified above.

Maryland recently suffered from very extended power outages that revealed how badly the state's infrastructure has deteriorated under Democrat policies - but Democrat Gov. O'Malley refuses to take responsibility and blames a convenient scapegoat - «global warming»

Is the Sun the controller of climate changes, only the instigator of changes that are mostly forced by the system feedbacks, or simply a convenient scapegoat for climate variations lacking any other obvious cause?

Despite being a one - dimensional political stereotype existing only in your imagination, «environmental activists» are more real to you than the verified fact of AGW is, simply because they make a convenient scapegoat.

I sometimes wonder whether the SDLT changes are a convenient scapegoat here.

But because Bailey happened to be nearby and was a convenient scapegoat, I heaped all my frustration on her.

It is really the city's renters that are seeing skyrocketing rents and the politicians looking for a convenient scapegoat.