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They had been made scapegoats for the party, he said.

Are you looking for the truth or just a scapegoat?

And if things went wrong then he had his scapegoat.

Ever get the feeling you've been used as the scapegoat?

He said teachers were scapegoats for the state's economic problems.

A lot of people are probably going to be made scapegoats.

I guess the scapegoat idea is a bit over my head.

So I'm being set up in case a scapegoat is needed.

The community group and the police are making him a scapegoat, he said.

He was the scapegoat, his death to take the place of another's.

And you, for doing things the right way, have been made an international scapegoat.

Somebody made him out to be a fall guy, so he's looking for a scapegoat of his own.

What do you think'll happen the next time they need a scapegoat to cover up something else they've done wrong?

It must be time to look east again for scapegoats.

"They were just trying to make the public the scapegoat."

It is easy to find a scapegoat for our problems.

Well, this time she was not going to play scapegoat.

Then when things went wrong, everyone started looking for scapegoats"."

When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat.

In each case, they have a ready scapegoat – the government.

I am to be your scapegoat where the law is concerned.

You are absolutely right, but exactly who is making them the scapegoat?

"I felt like our young guys were kind of scapegoats in a way."

A senior group member said the government was trying to find a scapegoat.

One can see that scapegoating goes right back into history.