Sentences with phrase «scapegoats for»

«International buyers are popular scapegoats for rising real estate prices and shrinking inventory, but domestic factors have had a bigger influence on the housing market, much more so than demand from overseas,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow.

Careers services are made scapegoats for rising graduate unemployment, when blame should lie squarely on the state of the economy.

Lawyers simply became political scapegoats for cases thrown out of the court system, according to Ferro.

He characterizes the dispute as a war within the profession, one in which the Connecticut Five are merely scapegoats for a bigger problem.

The 1950s was notoriously a decade of the most intense homophobia both in the US and in Britain, when gay men were actively persecuted, and indeed made scapegoats for currents of change that aroused the fear and anxiety of those in authority.

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.

the scapegoats for the worlds destruction.

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

The situation has focused national anger against Turks and other foreign residents who frequently own dogs of the banned and restricted breeds and brings comparisons with the early days of the Nazi regime in Germany, a time when people were targeted for specious reasons and made scapegoats for tyranny.

Cat defenders say that the new estimates won't change their belief that cats are scapegoats for bird habitat loss, chemicals used in fertilizers and insecticides, and collisions with man - made objects.

Many critics also blamed them for creating the conditions that led to the housing bubble in the first place, though others say they were simply made scapegoats for problems created on Wall Street.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said teachers should not be made scapegoats for the system.

bsallamack: «Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.»

Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.

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

«The bill made teachers the scapegoats for all the inadequacies of public education,» Ms. Solano said.

They're tired of being the media scapegoats for all that is wrong with education.

«It's just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society's problems,» Clinton told the AFT, according to selected quotes released by the union.

From where they sit, families should barely be seen and almost never heard, except when they are called upon to help their kids with homework, staff field trips, run bake sales to fund school budgets, and be the scapegoats for the failures of teaching, curricula, and leadership.

Right now, American teachers are scapegoats for everything wrong with our society.

When a movie's title and trailers constantly reference a period of time when people were afraid of witchcraft and constantly used religion as an excuse to seek out scapegoats for their problems, audiences will come to expect a magic - filled, action - packed thriller.

Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist for the Humane Society of the United States, complains that orcas are easy and cheap scapegoats for problems caused by people.

Gillibrand says that she doesn't know what Juan is talking about, but in the abstract she does not support the idea of making teachers scapegoats for a school's failure.

She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

Parrott said critics are making pensions and public - sector workers scapegoats for the economic collapse.

Retoxified already, a Conservative Party specifically targeting the most vulnerable as the scapegoats for deficit reduction...

But, as always, international students are used as scapegoats for a flawed system.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, says that the government's plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal is part of a joined - up attack on workers» rights which is turning ordinary working people into scapegoats for the coalition's economic mismanagement.

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

He was one of the biggest scapegoats for England's European Championship exit (and rightfully so) roughly two months ago, as a number of shots that should not be beating a goalkeeper of his apparent ability bobbed and trickled past him.

Personally, I believe that head coaches are often used as scapegoats for larger organizational issues, and are forced to take the blame for issues outside of their control.

All the Gunners save Ospina are the scapegoats for our winningless outcomes in that game as none of them was able to score a goal for Arsenal that Sunday evening.

we tend to pick scapegoats for bad form and are nearsighted with new signings, like kids with new toys.

Well, she and many others are still out for Catholic scalps: we aren't just scapegoats for them, we are the ultimate enemy, and against us no tactic is out of bounds.

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

Both North and South Korea have been the scapegoats for this neo-colonial proxy war, what amounts to a war of imperialist beasts, the dragons of the book of Revelation.

But the structures of MacArthur's consciousness — which was built over a long period of his life with guns and swords — were full of ruling ideologies, which wrongfully justified using the oppressed people as scapegoats for what he supposed to be justice, peace, and order.

Our other organs would have been made scapegoats for the real culprits.

I have a friend from Egypt who lives in an upscale neighborhood, and he said that he hatred spewed from the mosques against Christians and Jews is appalling, and that if it is that bad in his neighborhood, he could just imagine the things said in the more rural and poorer areas where Christians and Jews are made the scapegoats for all problems.

Once again, environmentalists were scapegoated for the loss of timber jobs.

The tax reform law championed by Trump and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill also has been a scapegoat for Wall Street strategists trying to explain the market swings.

«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.

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.»

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.

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

The PCs have tried to use Redford as a scapegoat for what may be a much larger problem,» said Notley.

i've said it before and it is more true today than ever... gods are for the weak, timiid and those that need a scapegoat for all the bad and good in their lives.

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