Word: scapegoat
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...Lamont was playing the traditional Chancellor's role of scapegoat. "If he is cautious, he is accused of being gloomy; if he is slightly upbeat, he is accused of being complacent...
Since the attacks are occurring with far greater intensity in the east, it has dawned on a hitherto complacent nation that the formerly communist region is an economic and social disaster zone that confronts all Germans with problems graver than anyone imagined. The discontented have found an easy scapegoat in the 1.4 million refugees from as far away as Afghanistan and as near as Yugoslavia, most of whom have flooded into the country during the past three years. Shut out of much of the rest of the Continent, they gravitate to Germany because its constitution guarantees asylum to all victims...
Stempel's defenders portray him as a scapegoat for errors that GM's now militant directors did nothing to stop. "He became captain after the Titanic had already hit the iceberg," Shaiken says. A strapping 6-ft. 4-in. former college football tackle with a booming voice but a gentle nature, Stempel took a conciliatory approach toward downsizing the work force. When a United Auto Workers strike shut down 14 of GM's factories in August and September, Stempel agreed to add 900 jobs at two Lordstown, Ohio, plants where workers had complained about being shorthanded. Earlier, Stempel had signed...
...maintain that such claims are unsubstantiated and I also take exception with Roksar's methods in handling the situation. I refuse to be the scapegoat for his unsuccessful bid for Undergraduate Council...
...Bush Administration has, quite rightly, kept quiet. Only if there are signs that Gorbachev is being turned from a witness into a scapegoat should the U.S. come to his defense by reminding Yeltsin of his promise to Baker last December...