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The two events, together with the Russian revolution, coalesced to turn them, in his mind, into scapegoats for everything.

The innocent can be punished and scapegoats are not logical impossibilities. We do say "they punished him for something he did not do. "

By the means of blame someone else to solve problem is often referred to as look for scapegoats.

Wall Street's misbehavior is hardly the only thing harming the economy, and its denizens make handy scapegoats for larger global forces.

But now that Mr Putin himself is in the prime ministerial seat it may be harder for him to find scapegoats.

Transferred nationalism, like the use of scapegoats, is a way of attaining salvation without altering one's conduct.

Being able to use the leaders as scapegoats and to laugh at the leaders somehow makes people feel better about their situation.

Only some of the guards and a minor hotel employee, chosen as scapegoats, were imprisoned.

For besides cover-ups, one of the other inevitable consequences of financial-market upsets is the search for scapegoats.

The Arkansas Education Association (AEA) went ballistic, accusing me of degrading teachers and using them as scapegoats.

The search for scapegoats in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is under way.

"We've been the natural scapegoats for decades, " said David Tice, manager of the Prudent Bear Fund and an influential short seller.

We have been aware of the fact that China has been using other countries as scapegoats to keep China from falling apart.

Were the convicted and hanged Booth co-conspirators scapegoats for higher figures in a massive cover-up?

Martin Fridson, a credit analyst, argues that the agencies are often used as scapegoats.

As economic conditions worsen, so this tendency to look for foreign scapegoats will intensify.

Some complained that the bankers were being made "scapegoats" for the financial crisis.

Few Americans understand what caused the recession. Some are seeking scapegoats . Politicians are happy to pander.

"The government is passing the buck. We are being made scapegoats , " he said.

These seminomadic, disenfranchised people were used as political scapegoats by your government one time too many.

Our society too scapegoats and shames people with the least power.

In some respects, of course, this is nothing new: the agencies often become scapegoats in a crisis.

German Muslims urged the government not to make them scapegoats over terrorism fears, saying that would only fan radicalism.

Americans are looking for scapegoats, rather than scrutinizing their own faulty laws and economic structures.

Encouraging responsibility is not a search of scapegoats , it is a call to conscience.

Stuck for answers, politicians have been looking for scapegoats.

Won't have family property between brothers to scramble for the bickering, and scapegoats.

It is irresponsible to mislead the public by putting the blame on other countries and seeking scapegoats.

Yet it is not really the "media" or the "internet" , twin scapegoats of the age, that make these stories so opaque.

They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program.

But the most popular scapegoats are "speculators" of the more traditional sort.

It must be time to look east again for scapegoats.

It is tempting to look for scapegoats when high prices hurt consumers.

Bankers are everyone's favourite scapegoats these days.

A protracted malaise will spawn an angry search for scapegoats.

Unemployment in America is high, and elections are on the horizon. It must be time to look east again for scapegoats.

Many people believe that these nurses have been made scapegoats.

By 1980, Mr Zhang and the others were scapegoats for his enormities.

Criticism was heaped on scapegoats.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.

When problems arise, find a solution, rather than looking for scapegoats.

He fears that whites will become the scapegoats for the government's failings.

It is good to have scapegoats.

12. It is good to have scapegoats.

But they must not focus on scapegoats, such as China's currency.

Painful though it is, this oil shock will eventually spur huge change. Beware the hunt for scapegoats.

He knows that if he takes action against interrogators he could be accused of seeking scapegoats;

Germans are losing patience with being cast as the euro zone's scapegoats