Sentences with phrase «finding scapegoats»

Kohnstamm at one point calls himself the «worst guidebook writer ever,» and seems fond of finding scapegoats for his own destructions.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

As we see the devastation this religion is working upon our lives, America tries to find scapegoats.

What say we work together to help the victim instead of carelessly finding a scapegoat for our anger.

An atmosphere of anger and paranoia fuels the desire to find a scapegoat.

They find scapegoats upon whom to project our national fears (witches in the l8th century, foreigners in the l9th, communists and atheists in the 20th).

It is the Holocaust game of finding a scapegoat.

If we can find a scapegoat, we are spared having to face ourselves.

Okay it's time to find a scapegoat today.

Why everybody in here always find a scapegoat today??? We are win, we plays a great game, nice subs by wenger, but we are knockout today coz we didn't score 3.

If arsenal lose find a scapegoat as soon as possible.

And why you still find a scapegoat??????? Didn't they play as all of you want??? If you want to scapegoat, find somebody that made us lost 3 - 1 in emirates!!

If we don't find any scapegoats then we will not improve..

like its not even about finding a scapegoat or basing this opinion on the result of this match but rather something I've thought for months now.

Anyone can be a critic and find a scapegoat, but youll see Arsenal will come round and start playing some impressive football.

History will show whether Derby are a club leading the charge to bring transparency to the world of football transfers or simply trying to find a scapegoat on which to pin the blame for failures of corporate governance.

I know it looks like I'm trying to find a scapegoat but why is our defender charging forward at 1 - 1 in the 57th minute?

Short sighted pols, digging in to hold their positions that have no place in this debate, will find another scapegoat next month when the US economy tanks again and the slow recovery spirals downward.

It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us.

But cat lovers may find their scapegoating here a bit problematic.

Much like Frances McDormand's doting mother from Cameron Crowe's overrated Almost Famous, Mrs. Lisbon (Kathleen Turner) desperately tries to find a scapegoat for the adolescent angst festering inside of her home, placing blame on the popular music that her daughters listen to.

And the media, instead of conducting a thorough investigation, found a scapegoat in teachers... a group who generally will not advocate for themselves.

My belief is this is a little bit of trying to find a scapegoat for their own problems that they haven't been able to handle.»

Most of these attacks are populist fear - mongering that simply aims at finding a scapegoat to gain political traction, votes and, hence, power.

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In the absence of a full review, and considering some of the things Clark and Lake said publicly, Whitmarsh worried he'd be made the scapegoat for anything that was found to have gone wrong, the letter said.

Authorities have found a new scapegoat to blame for the ongoing opioid drug epidemic going on in the United State: Bitcoin.

Years from now when someone decides to use Athiests as the scapegoat what will you do???? Will you look back and say hey I tried to be civil or I tried to stop the hatred before it escalated into uncontrollable proportions or I tried to find a way to coincide?

Men also tend to find more immediate «scapegoats» for evil — women.

It is quite obviously the expedient of a man who has been driven to seeking a scapegoat, and has found with relief the most famous scapegoat in European history, the Jewish people.»

Instead of dealing with the real underlying issues, we find ourselves looking for another enemy, another scapegoat, another target for our anger and unresolved grievances.

That God allows Himself to be the scapegoat for our sin is seen partly in the fact that the practice of «scapegoating» is found, not just in Leviticus 16, but in all cultures and all religions throughout history.

It takes away the attention from the root cause of the problem by trying to find a handful of scapegoats while letting this disease continue untreated in the rest of society!

The secular public has for the most part deplored these circumstances, looked for a scapegoat to take the blame, and found it in those in political or economic power.

Another illustration of inerrancy and scapegoating in tension can be found in the NT story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1 - 11).

In his book The Scapegoat, René Girard points out that the central themes of the Gospel Passion accounts are also found in all world mythologies (101).

Girard shows how this theme is found everywhere in ancient mythology and religious writings, but how only the Hebrew Scriptures begin to reveal that the third party, upon whom blame was laid for the original violence, was really an innocent scapegoat.

And that task is to prevent» by war, aid, diplomacy, and example» a new culture from being founded on the mythological value of the blood of six thousand dead American scapegoats.

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

El Clevs was once a United graduate with a fledgling England career ahead of him, however, the buzz faded and he found himself as a scapegoat for the club's troubles under David Moyes.

It would be unfair to use the new signing as a scapegoat for Liverpool's failings this term but the simple truth is that not only has Balotelli failed to find the back of the net he has also consistently failed to show any heart of character.

However, in recent times Chelsea have found it difficult against Arsenal and in the last game on Wednesday, Morata was the scapegoat for angry fans.

It's the leadership of Marine Le Pen that moved the party away from anti-semitism because she realised that after the holocaust this trope would no longer have any traction in the wider European community and other scapegoats would have to be found.

... It found that the civil service resists change and too often individuals are «scapegoated» when things go wrong.

GMOs are sometimes a scapegoat for allergies, including the uptick in gluten intolerance — digestive problems caused by a protein found in wheat and some other grains.

«People love [the conclusions] because finding a nefarious element in the food supply gives them a single scapegoat for all of their ills.»

These positive findings seem, however, often to be overshadowed using chocolate as the scapegoat as a cause of obesity.

At this point the grey areas get darker, the ironic euphemisms become coated with free - floating obscenities, scapegoats find themselves staked out, the rich protect their backs and get richer, and the public gets screwed.

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.

While Cage admits the movie's themes have «enormous parallels in many different parts of (today's) politics and religion,» including modern - day wars, Sena could have found a more time - relevant way to show that people have always looked for scapegoats.

In an attempt to save their favorite detective from failing to find the murderer at large, Scotland Yard puts «John Kildare» (Bill Nighy) on the case as a scapegoat in order to save face.