A whole agency may be made a scapegoat for the failure of an inter-agency project.
Although a minor figure in the conspiracy, Tira-dentes was made the scapegoat of the thirtytwo men arrested and sent to Rio de Janeiro for trial, and posterity has made him the proto-martyr of republicanism in Brazil.
And above all else, too often people have been willing to make Brussels the scapegoat for problems at home.
At Rome the scapegoat did not suffer death; but in the Saturnalia a human victim seems to have been slain till the 4th century A.D.
He is a good, decent man and does not deserve to be turned into a political scapegoat.
He made a good scapegoat for everything that had been going wrong lately.
He returned to Holland in 1665 and was made a scapegoat by the West India Company for all its failings in New Amsterdam; he went back to New York again after the treaty of Breda in 1667, having secured the right of free trade between Holland and New York.
In addition, they help fuel the rise in racism by attempting to scapegoat asylum seekers for all the government 's shortcomings.
In these customs originated perhaps the scapegoat, some forms of sacrifice and other cathartic ceremonies.
It is equally impossible to give a general survey of the purposes of sacrifice; not only are they too numerous but it is rare to find any but mixed forms; the scapegoat, for example, is also a messenger to the dead, and its flesh is eaten by the sacrificers.
It was his misfortune to be the scapegoat upon whose head parliament laid the accumulated sins, real and imaginary, of the East India Company.
Louis made light of the whole incident in his letters, but it marked the greatest humiliation of his life, and he was only too glad to find a scapegoat in Cardinal Jean Balue, who was accused of having plotted the treason of Peronne.
Often, indeed, the IMF is a useful scapegoat for governments having to force through unpopular reforms.
Old Maid is also known as a "scapegoat" card game, in which you try to not have a particular card in your hand.
She wished Paulet would manage the business on his own account, and when at last her signature was extorted she made a scapegoat of her secretary Davison who had the warrant executed.
The Day of Atonement is the only fast provided in the Law; it is only on this occasion that (a) the Jews are required to " afflict their souls," (b) the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies, (c) the High Priest offers incense before the mercy seat and sprinkles it with blood, and (d) the scapegoat or Azazel is sent away into the wilderness, bearing upon him all the iniquities of the people.
The driver for the backlash is that regulation seems to have become businesses ' favorite scapegoat for their own problems.
The Iroquois sacrifice of the white dog bore in later times the character of a scapegoat festival; but it is doubtful how far this was an original feature.
The pent-up aggression of these cycles is defused by the setting in motion of the scapegoat mechanism.
They simply wanted to find a scapegoat to blame for the recycling blunder.
This raises the problem of how far the catharsis dealt with above is in its original form an elimination of impurity, and how far something more definite - a spirit or other principle of evil - is held to be expelled by scapegoat and allied ceremonies.
To escape from the consequences of their actions it suits them fine to shift blame onto the victim - and to create the scapegoat.
Whether or not it had played a part in inciting the boys to murder, the video provided an easy scapegoat.
Whether that's because communities needed a scapegoat or a video game did spark the violence, it's clear that violence within a video game initiated a desire to cause destruction.
With regard to the scapegoat, it must be noted that we also meet with a more concrete idea of expulsion of evil (see Demonology, Exorcism), which is present among the most primitive peoples, such as the Australians.
You are blaming the supplier, a convenient scapegoat.