17) B.

He's the scapegoat.

You're the scapegoat.

The boss is looking for someone to blame.

They're looking for a scapegoat.

He's always the scapegoat.

He's always the scapegoat.

It is always useful to have a scapegoat.

They simply need a scapegoat.

The ECB will be scapegoated for that.

Medical professionals end up as the conduit of all the tremendous conflicts.

The new US Congress is looking for scapegoats for the country s economic quagmire.

This scapegoating of globalization reflects another key problem. Successive governments, not companies, are responsible for the most damaging outsourcing in France that of responsibility.

This scapegoating of globalization reflects another key problem.

This is merely a cover up for the massive rot in the NDC government and Martin is a scapegoat.

Because we still believe that rape victims enjoy forced sex.

I don't want to be a sucker. I'm not going to cooperate.

Finally, faced by a realization of inevitable failure, participants look for a scapegoat.

This woeful situation demands effective action and not more victims and scapegoats.

Sarkozy has a problem with central banks independence, and Noyer may become a scapegoat.

Why am I the only one they complain of? They're just making an example out of me and using me as a scapegoat.

We have been used as scapegoats to shift the focus away from the country s economic and political problems.

At other universities, Conservative students say they are being treated as scapegoats for the introduction of higher tuition fees.

So the search for scapegoats proceeds, not in earnest and with energy, but as a reflex, the death throes of the old ways of doing things.

This is a legitimate choice, but once made, Europeans should stop looking for scapegoats for slow growth.

Warnings that call for safety and offensive terror invoking phrases that carry the possibility of creating specific scapegoats are two different things.

The EU s supposed democratic deficit is a corollary of the technocratic imperative that has emerged as a favorite scapegoat in the ongoing European drama.

Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens.

The trouble is that the higher interest rates are bound to deepen Russia s economic downturn, making the CBR an easy scapegoat.

He will need to demonstrate that France no longer treats Europe as a scapegoat for its own economic troubles a ploy that merely marginalizes France in economic debates.

HLB I really don't know how we can stop it but I think that people are suffering and it's easy to look for scapegoats, especially in times of crisis.

When we are faced with conflicting choices burden sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide. In short, when the EU brings subsidies, it receives congratulations but when it pushes for unpopular reforms, it becomes the scapegoat for political, social, and economic failures.

By constantly pushing for lower interest rates than the ECB can deliver, politicians set the central bank up as a scapegoat for Europe s poor economic performance.

What John Connolly's bluntness reflected was America's ability and willingness to export its economic problems by driving down the dollar's value while scapegoating countries opposed to that strategy.

In short, when the EU brings subsidies, it receives congratulations but when it pushes for unpopular reforms, it becomes the scapegoat for political, social, and economic failures.

This was not the case in the 1970s, when stagnating productivity and rising commodity prices turned central bankers into scapegoats, not heroes.

You probably hanged a junior staff member out to dry, while conveniently ignoring the fact that such emails have to go out with the approval of the senior management?

But there are also other reasons having to do with politicians need for scapegoats, the media s struggle to reinvent itself in the Internet age, and central bank pronouncements predictable short term effects on financial markets.

Kim said that Samsung lawyers trained executives to serve as scapegoats in a fabricated scenario to protect Lee, even though those executives were not involved.

At the same time, al Ahmar s dismal performance in spearheading the war against the Houthi led sectarian rebellion in the north made him a convenient scapegoat for the regime s failures.

A second reason is that Germans are fed up with being Europe s scapegoat blamed for their neighbors ills while being asked to take on risks and provide generous financial transfers.

And, as President Barack Obama has said, the Libyan people must not be deprived of full ownership of their struggle for freedom, and Qaddafi must not be given a useful foil and scapegoat.

In these difficult economic times, Switzerland serves as a handy scapegoat, enabling financially challenged states to discharge their frustrations and divert their citizens attention from shortcomings in their own complicated and inefficient tax systems.

It distracts the ECB, adds to the impression that Europe is bad, and, more importantly, will be used by ineffective governments as a scapegoat for their failings.

The poor and the oppressed should not be used as scapegoats and sacrificed so the government can overcome the problems with the Pension and Disability Insurance and the Health Insurance Funds it itself created!