What's the difference between imbued and scapegoat?
Imbued
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Imbue
Example Sentences:
(1) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(3) Second, the thymus imbues T cells with the property of H-2-restricted recognition of antigen, that is, the capacity of T cells to react with foreign antigens presented in association with self H-2 gene products.
(4) Therefore, roentgenographic evidence of bone destruction or skeletal stigmata of hyperparathyroidism imbues laboratory data with greater significance.
(5) They share language, values and attitudes, all imbued during a common childhood and youth.
(6) But Fulham were unshackled, imbued with enhanced belief and, when Dejagah crossed low from the right, Richardson, an integral part of West Bromwich Albion's great escape round these parts in 2005, dispatched a fierce, left-footed shot into the far top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
(7) And whatever else happens, get some teachers and school leaders on this committee – people from the chalkface imbued with common sense and the experience to make the right decisions.
(8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
(9) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
(10) A clean and thorough audit was integral to the imbuing the new administration with full legitimacy, he added.
(11) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
(12) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(13) The struggle against the enemy is imbued in people from the earliest age.
(14) Some people – often due to earlier, familial experiences of loving an unavailable person such as an absent or depressed mother – tend to find themselves in adult relationships where they continue to remain imbued with longing.
(15) Biology engineers structures on the molecular scale but biomolecules do not seem to be imbued with useful electronic properties.
(16) The days when many members of mainstream parties, particularly on the left, refused to share a platform with extremists to avoid imbuing them with political legitimacy appear to be over.
(17) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
(18) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(19) Significantly, perhaps, having witnessed the failure of two bright new dawns - those of postwar communism and post-cold war capitalism - the Leipzig painters are seen as having an atmosphere of disillusionment in common; their work is imbued with a deep melancholy.
(20) Recalling the year's challenges – sporting, logistical and meteorological — she spoke of the sense of achievement and demonstration of public-spiritedness that had imbued the nation during 2012.
Scapegoat
Definition:
(n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
(n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s just not the case and wrong to scapegoat them, in my view.
(2) Pakistan has been elected as the scapegoat because the Lashkar-e-Taiba, widely believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks, are based there and have been the chosen agents of the country's intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence, for creating havoc in Kashmir in the past.
(3) Alejandro Hope, a security expert and former official in the Mexican intelligence agency, suggested the detainees may be scapegoats, and that the government is genuinely in the dark.
(4) The railway staff left to pick up the pieces are being set up as scapegoats with ludicrous claims about Spanish practices and out-of-control pay, but our members have already been paying with their jobs as the privateers ditch frontline staff to maintain profits.
(5) "The eurosceptics have no solutions, just scapegoats.
(6) It is unfortunate that in recent years they have become an easy scapegoat for emissions, despite the fact that the livestock population is generally falling."
(7) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
(8) The Public and Commercial Services union, which represents one of the three Department for Transport employees facing disciplinary proceedings over the bungled procurement process, said public servants had been made scapegoats.
(9) "The average person feels they've been cast aside and made scapegoats for the failures of the financial services system.
(10) That was simplistic and failed to take into account the slum landlord problems which had facilitated Abaaoud finding shelter but, in a country seeking scapegoats, it stuck.
(11) Ministers should be working hard to win the Canning byelection rather than backgrounding against a colleague to scapegoat a potential loss,” said Sinodinos, who was the longstanding and respected chief of staff to former prime minister John Howard.
(12) It often meant no more than 'they' - the mysterious people who ruled our lives, or the scapegoats for anything that went wrong.
(13) He is finding scapegoats for the scapegoated and demands retribution for their suffering.
(14) Candy (coconut or rootbeer Lifesavers) was used as a scapegoat and given between the consumption of a meal and the administration of chemotherapy to determine whether this would lead to a greater willingness to consume items in that meal at a future test.
(15) Blackett said Nightingale's assertions that he was "a scapegoat or the victim of some wider political agenda" was "absolute nonsense".
(16) However, in order for these brothers and sisters to welcome the former scapegoat back home, they must make room for the returning member, not as a drug abuser but as a person.
(17) Bush may have gone, but the United States still makes a handy scapegoat in plenty of European capitals.
(18) This article presents Karen Blixen's concept of the family scapegoat as it was elaborated in a number of her tales.
(19) "When the big teams go out they always have to find a scapegoat, in this case the referee," wrote El Universo.
(20) Although the player has developed a thick skin, not least while he agitated for a move away from Anfield, he has been taken aback by the level of criticism that has been flung his way – particularly online – over Euro 2016 and apparently feels he has been made a scapegoat for England’s shortcomings at the tournament.