He dropped a couple of balls, but he's not going to be a scapegoat for our defeat.

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Former Acting ATF Chief Ken Melson, after refusing to be a scapegoat for this operation, became an adviser in the Office of Legal Affairs in Washington, D.

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Blame time for that one, work, family, the weather, anything can be a scapegoat when it comes to not fulfilling a resolution that you were already feeling iffy about in the first place.

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It was decided on day one that I would be made a scapegoat.

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In response, Greece's foreign minister told the BBC that Athens was not the source of the crisis, and that no country should be made a scapegoat.

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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.

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Following the publication of the report into the scandal, Prime Minister David Cameron backed Sir David, saying he should not be "made a scapegoat for what went wrong in Mid Staffordshire".

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Some people think that she may actually be the scapegoat for Yahoo, a company well on its way down a death spiral.

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Mr Lafontaine will be missed in the cabinet, too, at least as a scapegoat.

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In a trice Mr Jospin would no longer be his party's hero, but its scapegoat.

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