Izvolski therefore served as a perfect scapegoat for the failure of Russian diplomacy, and he was forcibly ousted.

Joao was the perfect scapegoat and this situation was made to order - if Rhin could be persuaded to help.

If someone made a mistake and got caught, Zedrel would make the perfect scapegoat.

And the increasing focus on winning as the only purpose of sports makes perfect scapegoats of athletes having a bad year, month, week, or day.

For you had provided him a perfect scapegoat, one wronged and angry and bearing a grudge.

Not when she knew that the one crime of which he was truly guilty was being the Group of Four's perfect scapegoat.

The Commission would be a perfect scapegoat - and moreover with some justification - for these politicians' sins.

He knew that Marie was the perfect scapegoat.

As a filmmaker and journalist working for Western broadcasting corporations, he was the perfect scapegoat for the regime.

Should the operation fail, you have the perfect scapegoats.