"They're using the trees as a scapegoat, " says Mr. Malkin, president of Greenwich Tree Conservancy.
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Mr Lafontaine will be missed in the cabinet, too, at least as a scapegoat.
Ms Gibb said she was "demonised" by the press and used as a scapegoat in the Healthcare Commission's report.
This suggests that Mr Lion had been deliberately singled out as a scapegoat and given no time to defend himself.
The head of Venezuela's judicial police was sacked, apparently as a scapegoat.
The Republicans either ignore them or use them as a scapegoat.
Adamant that all the horse meat exported was properly labeled, the Romanian Prime Minister feels his country is being used as a scapegoat in this crisis.
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"So it's somewhat unacceptable that the Cuban government has just recently decided to use the Cuban Adjustment Act as a scapegoat for their own internal problem, " he said.
Glamorgan's ex-Australia seam bowler Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio 5 Live on Tuesday that Pattinson should not be used as a scapegoat for England's second Test defeat to South Africa.
If the Free Democrats blocked a deal on the DM610 problem, Christian Democrats might use them as a scapegoat for the financial squeeze which makes the increase in pension contributions necessary.
The US airline had consistently argued that the Concorde caught fire before it hit the metal strip, and that they were being used as a scapegoat to protect France's airline industry.
As fiscal austerity kicks in, the appeal of using a cheaper currency as a source of demand will increase, and the pressure on politicians to treat China as a scapegoat will rise.
Andy Scate, Chief Executive of Jersey's Planning Department, said his department was being used as a scapegoat and he did not accept Le Masurier's claims the proposals had been delayed by the department.
Former CIA chief George Tenet said the Bush administration used him as a scapegoat over intelligence issues with the war in Iraq, and debate among top officials was absent when decisions were made to invade the country.
Many fear that the MDC leader will simply be used by Mr Mugabe as a scapegoat for the country's seemingly insuperable ills, leaving the wily president, who turns 85 next week, in control of all the levers of real power.
One scenario being increasingly discussed is that of a "patsy Hun Sen, " in which the CPP leadership perceives him as a liability and makes him a scapegoat as it tries to salvage whatever goodwill remains.
The spat may be a little academic a budget committee mainly rejected the idea of selling gold but the suspicious see Mr Welteke as playing a scapegoat for an irritated Mr Eichel.
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QC whose annihilation of the chief prosecution witness in the recent Damilola Taylor murder trial probably qualifies him as one of Mr Blunkett's meddlesome lawyers says that his profession has been seized upon as a convenient scapegoat.
Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.
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Johnson said he was a scapegoat for the board as enthusiasm for the merger waned.
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Spitzer is relying on a strategy he has used so successfully in the recent past: Find a long-established but shady-sounding practice in an industry, expose it as a scandal, single out a villain and threaten criminal prosecution, flushing out the scapegoat and extracting a sizable settlement.
For others, the departure is seen as a transparent - if welcome - effort to designate Tenet as the chosen scapegoat for recent intelligence failures.
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