scapegoat
كبش فداء
definition
verb
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
make a scapegoat of.
noun
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
translation of 'scapegoat'
noun
كبش الفداء
example
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
Teenagers have always been an easy 'scapegoat' to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a 'scapegoat' - they have made some mistakes.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a 'scapegoat' to blame the problem on.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a 'scapegoat' to take the blame away from ourselves.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been 'scapegoated' for the party's failure to make any political headway.
Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame 'scapegoats' for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system.
The media want to show young people as being useless ( 'scapegoatism' at its very worst).
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
Elsewhere teaching and public sector unions, along with aid agencies, charities and student groups, have been prominent in challenging the 'scapegoating' of refugees and their children.
She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly 'scapegoated' and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated.
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
Like the dogs, the 'scapegoats' were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on 'scapegoats' .
But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking 'scapegoats' to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever.
As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating 'scapegoats' and lamenting mistakes.
When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and 'scapegoats' to blame where our children are concerned?
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