Sentences with phrase «scapegoats of»

A great deal of the unrest was directed at the business and banking class, the natural scapegoats of any economic débacle.

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Cast aside as supposed witches, the Owens women have been the scapegoats of their small Massachusetts town for generations.

«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.

The right - wing moralists make scapegoats of homosexuals, who are now aboveground and who claim the full rights of human beings and citizens.

The quality which makes them the scapegoats of Western history is the quality which makes them strangers in Western history — their devotion to their own cultural tradition under conditions of almost impossible hardship and the psychological traits which that devotion has established.

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

Given the state of the country, «Far Cry 5» feels like something made for an alternate reality where mass shootings aren't common, where there isn't a raging culture war between so - called Red and Blue states, where there isn't yet another misinformed scapegoating of violent video games unfolding.

Meanwhile, what of this scapegoating of Iran for what seems to be authentic Saudi dissent?

''... making God the great scapegoat of history.

«Christians (et al) must give up a perverse, unhealthy and inhuman doctrine of predestination without in so doing making God the great scapegoat of history.»

By teaching Israel about the scapegoat, and indeed, implanting the scapegoat mechanism into the hearts of people around the world, God was preparing people for the ultimate scapegoat of human history — Jesus Christ.

You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.

But in the crucifixion of Jesus, when Satan tries once again to use violent religion to «cast out Satan,» this time in the scapegoat of Jesus Christ, Satan did not realize that his plan would backfire.

He sees himself as the scapegoat of high - level politicians who never asked for amnesty from the TRC.

But the singling out and scapegoating of gay and lesbian people that's happening here is deeply troubling to me.

«Christians must give up a perverse, unhealthy and inhuman doctrine of predestination without in so doing making God the great scapegoat of history».

However in today's game, the fans and media are quick to turn their backs on players when the going gets tough, and as we've seen with Ozil already this season, it's been suggested that he's been made to feel as the scapegoat of the club.

You trolls pin point Ozil for the lack of it and now you want to make ALEXIS THE SCAPEGOAT OF OUR FAILURE?

so much for making shcezny the scapegoat of our defense....

that third goal... am just disappointed in wenger for making schezny the scapegoat of the bad defense he started with in the season with the likes of monreal at cb and chambers at rb and a deep form matasacker.....

Sometimes, inserad of blaming someone, you just have to accept bad luck rather than having a scapegoat all of the time.

Ozil has been out of form this season and over the four years he has been largely inconsistent; so much so that this year he has arguably been the scapegoat of the squad.

Leonardo Bonucci blossomed from the scapegoat of the awful 2010 - 11 season to the best center back in the world over his seven years at Juventus.

Former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, with her N225m bulletproof BMW car scandal, had a dose of what Dino could do in making a scapegoat of a public official if the act fits the plot.

She situated the current moment in the post-2008 economic crash which «led to the scapegoating of the other» and the current Trump / Brexit moment where «immigration has taken on an unprecedented salience».

At its heart, the scapegoating of public employees is an insidious way to divide public and private sector workers who share many of the same interests.

Diane Abbott used her candidacy to challenge the scapegoating of immigrants and the myth that immigration was why Labour lost the election, and placed the issues of Labour's attitude to US imperialism on the agenda with opposition to the Iraq war and Trident.

Already the scapegoating of immigrants has taken a prominent role in the Labour leadership contest.

Making a scapegoat of any single individual will not improve the Department, nor will it better protect children from harm.

No scapegoating of migrants, no setting one generation against another and no playing off the nations of the UK.

ALBANY, NY (04/30/2008)(readMedia)-- CSEA today slammed two controversial recommendations of the Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness as the same old scapegoating of public employees.

«Let's give a round of applause to someone that's personally been threatened... [and] reject scapegoating of our Muslim brothers... reject anti-Semitism,» said Stringer.

«Yoruba people are lovers of peace but also haters of injustice in any appearance or form and we would not allow our people to be deliberately made a scapegoat of the inherent failure of Nigeria's nationality.

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.

Plus, lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, former scapegoat of the Duke rape scandal, has a comeback at Bryant University.

He's the scapegoat of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he's not a piece of shit so much as just pathetic and therefore the perfect — and last — receptacle into which the audience for stuff like this tosses their psychic rubbish.

Start: Ebony and Phil announce the winners of our book giveaway 1:00 introductions 2:45 Anita's weird dreams 4:08 pop culture news (box office milestones and Ready Player One's premiere) 8:10 A Wrinkle in Time 27:10 The Trump administration's scapegoating of video games 44:10 What's Your FREQ - Out?!

Budget cuts, classroom size increases, pressures to teach to the test, scapegoating of teachers — all these forces have driven many of the best and brightest teachers right out of the classroom.

His thin - skinned temperament, his bullying tendencies, his scapegoating of Mexican - Americans and Muslim - Americans, his support from White Nationalists and Vladimir Putin, his impulsive attacks on free speech and our allies around the world — none of that has evaporated in the light of day.

«Too many, including my opponent in this race, would rather stick their heads in the sand and pretend that everything is okay — that all of our problems are reducible to the scapegoat of the day,» Jeffries said.

They stood against the scapegoating of teachers and the vilification of their unions.

It also demonstrates «the absolute abject lack of respect and scapegoating of teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians throughout this country,» she says.

Media hysteria and scapegoating of the urban poor combined to make the pit bull an easy target.

How, in the face of its censure on quality distinctions, its scapegoating of formalism, its dismissal of originality and artistic intent?

But it does have a predecessor in the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt's Scapegoat of 1854 — 56, of which he made two versions, a first small one in Manchester Art Gallery, and a final large one, now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight.

The Trump campaign also played on the inability of blue collar workers to see through what was really intended economically, by distracting them with scapegoating of elites and other groups.

The result was an unfair scapegoating of the hemp plant as the culprit as opposed to the symbolism itself, which, by the way, appears much more commonly on T - shirts and fabrics made from more widely available (and environmentally destructive) cotton.

Although many of these body care products contained far more harmful chemicals such as parabens and ethanolamines (which do contain nitrosamines), the sole scapegoating of SLS allowed these companies to safely continue using them without arousing much public scrutiny.

But politicians should beware: too much scapegoating of the judiciary and a government might find that the red string has been tied around its own neck and it will be a government — not the courts — that finds itself cast over the sacrificial cliff.

is to explore different ways to circumvent legislation that prohibits prostitution, mostly — if not entirely — through the scapegoat of an «escort» service.