But the publisher was in danger of being punished, and Strindberg could not stand by whilst a scapegoat suffered the penalty of his transgressions.
But, this scapegoat role allows politicians in Russia to hide behind the IMF leaf and blame the results of their incompetence and corruption on it.
This scapegoat role constitutes the basis for the first criticism.
Will was a constant source of anxiety and wonder to the teacher, who often marked him as the scapegoat to carry off the surface sins of sneaking and cowardly pupils.
Through all the centuries, in youth and age, private and public, the scapegoat has been the real hero in all troubles and misfortunes.
For the time being it seemed as if he could not only make the scapegoat bear his sins, but stab him to the heart while he did it.
Thor's dignity and self-restraint were not without an effect that might eventually have made for peace had not the brother's conscience been screaming for a scapegoat on which to lay a portion of his sins.
He, it appears, is to be the scapegoat of the Bourget affair.
This is the consequence of the scapegoat system which has so long prevailed in France.
It is ancient human experience that popular disaffection first finds its scapegoat in the government, and history repeated itself here.
Dietz, a Socialist city councillor, seconded Marum, and expressed indignation at any efforts to make a scapegoat of the Kaiser.
In fact, the court-martial was conducted in the most unfair manner, and many became convinced that some disgraceful mystery lay behind it, and that Dreyfus had been made a scapegoat to shield some one higher in office.
Nieto stated further that he believed that he could get Ruef to confess, and volunteered the theory that the "higher-ups" were endeavoring to make Ruef a scapegoat for all the boodling that had been committed.
One of the most contemptible stories circulated to create public opinion for his release was that Ruef had been made scapegoat because of his religion.
What would you have said if we had made a scapegoatof a petty criminal and let the giants go?
But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
Newcastle was content to make a scapegoat of the admiral, and ordered him home under arrest to await trial.
And so you picked me for a scapegoat and doomed me to slaughter.
Once his uncle had been a scapegoatto blame for disaster.
And the scapegoat himself was not around to be mobbed.
Aristophanes becomes thescapegoat of Athenian sins, while Euripides shines forth a saint as well as a sage.
It is there suggested that the cock to which the fits are transferred by the patient at the well is a substitute for the scapegoat of the Jews.
The custom is associated with the ancient Druids as well as with the Jews, and its resemblance to the scapegoat is suggestive.
He perceived the opportunity of making the Manchu dynasty the scapegoat of national weakness and apathy.
It would be more just to find thescapegoat amongst those who were responsible in Berlin.
The Scapegoatregarded her for a moment, standing with the ball in her hand, swaying her light, graceful body to and fro.
A scapegrace is one thing, a scapegoat is another, and from some points a preferable one.
Is this a time to think o' wark, Wi' Scapegoatat the door?
Silently she followed the Scapegoat down the iron ladder of the fire-escape, across the lawn, out into the open road.
When Peggy reached her room, she found the Scapegoatalready there, sitting on the floor and chanting solemnly: "I have nailed my Puggy's slippers Down upon her closet floor.
The Scapegoat 40 From the painting in possession of Sir Cuthbert Quilter, Bart.
