Thanks to the scapegoat, the Children of Israel were cleansed of their collective sins.
Now when they testify the regulators will undoubtedly point the finger at Goldman, the scapegoat.
He was made the scapegoat for the lackluster initial sales (by Iphone standards) and bugs with the system.
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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Shoaib claimed he had been made the scapegoat after Pakistan's Test and one-day series defeats by rivals India at the end of last year.
An iron law of politics holds that at times of political unravelling the fixer becomes the scapegoat and the planter of stories turns into the story itself.
However, Mr Tiberi, who says he is being made the scapegoat for abuses that predate his term of office, is no longer the sort of friend a president can afford to have.
Despite this small economic and demographic footprint, Cyprus has dominated the headlines for the past couple of weeks while being the scapegoat for down days in the stock market and recent market volatility.
For many years and in countless articles, physicians have been the scapegoat for rising healthcare costs in the U.S. In fact, they have been blamed by many critics for the U.S. leading the world in healthcare expenditures.
And certainly some people will agree with them that Paterno was the scapegoat for a scandal, an old man railroaded and unceremoniously dumped by the very university he loved and served so ably on the football field.
More importantly, it gave Ashton a morale-boosting lift at the end of a week when he has come under fire for England's lack-lustre performances and the treatment of Wilkinson, who many felt was made the scapegoat for the loss to Scotland.
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.
He said in a statement: "I have made absolutely no intervention into the data which I asked for and received from the French authorities, " adding that he was "not going to accept the fabrication of guilt where none exists, nor become the scapegoat in this case".
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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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Ms Gibb said she was "demonised" by the press and used as a scapegoat in the Healthcare Commission's report.
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.
Perhaps Ejabat is avoiding the most obvious scapegoat of all--himself.
The most well-known example is the Occupy Wall Street effort, which made a scapegoat of "the 1%" in the hope of unifying 99% of the population against it.
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.
"They're using the trees as a scapegoat, " says Mr. Malkin, president of Greenwich Tree Conservancy.
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Johnson said he was a scapegoat for the board as enthusiasm for the merger waned.
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Others cautioned the synod against turning the BBC into a scapegoat, or giving it "a good kicking".
Talking about his Middlesex exit, Shah added that he may have been made a scapegoat for the club's recent failures.
Okah, who can still communicate with Jonathan and Nigerian Cabinet officials directly, reportedly feels that he is being made a scapegoat by the same leaders who let MEND operate before.
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