Sentences with word «scapegoat»

Usually the people yelling they support a club but constantly bash ANYONE in the club or looking for scapegoats for everything are the ones in fact supporting the club only when they are winning.

«Instead of making scapegoats of people who are simply attempting to improve the life chances of their kids, the focus should be on driving up the quality of teaching in the poorest areas of the country.

Teacher Evaluation: a way to use teachers as scapegoats for the lack of societal response to the educational needs of minority students

As Singer points out, having an imaginary friend offers a child several benefits, including «providing a companion they have a certain degree of control over and having a ready - made scapegoat for when things go wrong.»

Kierkegaard's understanding of personality as a synthesis of opposing elements leads us to understand the concept of scapegoating in dialectical terms, in relation to the spheres of existence which humanity divides itself into.

Ed school deans interviewed for the story name a lot of things that might be causing the trend — from an improving economy offering potential teachers more options to the feeling of some teachers that they are being treated as scapegoats by politicians and policymakers — but note that there is no good data to confirm these hypotheses.

It is, to use René Girard's terminology, the single victim scapegoat mechanism.

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.

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

In his conference speech, Cameron added young people to his list of scapegoats when he implied that they are in their droves leaving school, getting knocked up and opting for a life on benefits, as he outlined his plan to remove housing benefit for those under 25s not in employment, education or training.

But the Labour party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn will not scapegoat immigrants for these issues.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote an opinion piece in this morning's Daily News, touting the recent state budget as a response to income inequality — and as a counternarrative to politicians like Donald Trump who are trying to capitalize on economic malaise by scapegoating other...

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

Art dealers have become easy scapegoats in today's irrationally exuberant art world, but it's worth remembering that most have fairly precarious existences and that they're absolutely essential: They take chances on artists, create opportunities for them and, ideally, sell work so that they can continue making.

State employees are becoming scapegoats on this matter.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).

Basically, turning our enemies into scapegoats makes us feel more in control.

Furthermore, you wouldn't blame him for the fly; the studios are looking for scapegoats because of the embarrassing fact that most bootlegs are sourced back to a mole within the company.

Arsenal and Chelsea always need scapegoats (usually DM) for their bad systems.

Instead, the blood of Jesus exposes our sacred violence to us so that we can see in our own lives how we make scapegoat victims out of others, and then calls us to no longer live in this way.

Prof. Mills was scapegoated with same fake stories and false accusation that caused the good Prof unbearable pain till he said goodbye.

The only ones still coming up with this ridiculous claim are those who are in the pockets of the NRA (politicians, right - wing media) who want to divert the conversation away from sensible gun control, so they'll quickly try to blame it on age - old scapegoats like entertainment (games, violence on TV, music, comics, whatever).

Now, he's an easy scapegoat if the tricky investigation doesn't lead to the killer.

Often scapegoated for some of the most horrifying violence in the country and the world, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression are only responsible for a tiny fraction of it.

[14] The individuals who make up the crowd require scapegoats which they can denounce and attack in their ongoing efforts in self - protection.

I hope that Mayor Harp and other area representatives start asking NHPS management hard questions about what they are really doing, aside from scapegoating teachers, to improve our school learning environments.

We have gone astray if we think that God endorses the mechanism of scapegoating sacrifice and that the crucifixion is just the largest and most powerful example.

We will always scapegoat players / managers because overall we want to get the best out of our beloved club.

They have exhibited at institutions around the world, with recent presentations including Scapegoating Pictures, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2017); Luther und Die Avant Garde, St Matthew's Church, Berlin (2017); The Early Years, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); and The Art Exhibition, the Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Tasmania (2015).

David Cameron and the other two party leaders have gone against the message of Holy Week by scapegoating immigrants, a bishop said today.

There's no way to know if PS Plus actually hurts Indie sales, or if the people weren't going to buy the games any way and are just scapegoating because they want more Retail titles.

We need to be careful about scapegoating immigrants in a recession.

I have wondered about all the blood and gore in the O.T. I even get the idea that we humans do scapegoat God.

He literally brings something new to the table without scapegoating managers / players all the time.

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.

But rolling news needs new scapegoats 24/7.

Why do fans always look for scapegoats after every loss or draw.?

A lot of people looking for Chelsea scapegoats today.

Both coalitions argue that the debate over New York's budget crisis has unfairly scapegoated public workers while virtually ignoring the role that Wall Street risk - taking, and the accompanying financial collapse, played.

«Scapegoat Time,» wrote Bob Herbert of the New York Times, while Anna Quindlen....

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

On an issue as important as the growth in hate attacks, and a government determined to subordinate the health of British capitalism to the needs of the Tory party, you need a right hand woman prepared to make the uncompromising case against scapegoating and xenophobia.

And if they're going to scapegoat last season's problems on Rose - Butler not fitting together, Rondo should be an even worse fit next to Jimmy.