Word: scapegoat
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...course, the big powers that designed the organization could still shake it by the ears if they wished. Yet often they prefer to use the U.N. as a scapegoat for their own lack of resolve, which was what really failed Bosnia for so long. A special debility in handling crises has come from America's modern horror at the possibility that a single soldier might die. Eban notes, "Nothing can happen without the Americans. Everything can happen with them...
...geared against the African-American race. Many African-Americans are wiling to work hard for their prosperity, but those lower class blacks who are residents in the inner-cities often fall into the trap of expecting help and therefore do not take it upon themselves to achieve. Instead, they scapegoat everything and everyone, from "the system" to the "legacy of white supremacy" in this country...
...Union, precipitated the Prime Minister's pre-emptive strike and will not be easily silenced. The Euro-skeptics will almost certainly field a leadership candidate on the first ballot. Already the names of Barry Field, a political unknown, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, who became the scapegoat for sterling's being ignominiously suspended from the European exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992, are being mentioned as possibilities. They stand little chance, but could serve as a stalking-horse for a more viable candidate, such as Heseltine or Portillo. If Major fails to win hands down...
...zone over northern Iraq ended in the acquittal of the sole person charged: Air Force Captain Jim Wang, the senior director aboard the awacs plane monitoring the region. Wang claimed that his radarscope did not identify the choppers as friendly and that he was being pursued as a scapegoat; his acquittal means that no one involved in the attack--including the two F-15 pilots who fired on the helicopters--will be held criminally accountable for the snafu's 26 deaths...
...opportunity for Republican politicians to scapegoat Blacks and attract white voters...