(1) • Patsy Byrne, actor, born 13 July 1933; died 17 June 2014
(2) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
(3) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
(4) The visiting captain left his best to the closing moments of the half when a juggling act left Leon Osman and Sylvain Distin the patsies in a move that finished with Lallana's volley missing by inches.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie with, Patsy Kensit and Eddie O’Connell in Absolute Beginners in 1986.
(6) The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.
(7) Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live earlier today, Yentob added: "If you're negotiating with someone else as well you feel a bit of a patsy if you're sitting down so we stopped and said, 'Do you want to come?'
(8) But I remembered something: in the late 80s, Patsy and I were at a very, very glamorous evening in Hollywood to celebrate a very, very important Hollywood star, and you were the emcee for the evening.
(9) Tim Jonze When You Need a Laugh – Patsy Cline Songs I've heard at dawn return to make me cry in daylight, however saccharine and bloated ( Kelly Clarkson's Because of You , please be kind).
(10) Patsy Baker, a partner from Bell Pottinger is also listed on the documents as sitting on another table.
(11) Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool overpowered Manchester City with intensity | Michael Cox Read more This victory over City was a triumph for Klopp’s gegenpressing ethos – the quick switch from attack to a high press – as City were cast as hapless patsies who made countless errors and gave up possession cheaply.
(12) Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
(13) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(14) Patsy Bivins, 68, a retired waitress from Sturgiss, Kentucky, is one of hundreds or even thousands who have been warned to look out for the tell-tale symptoms of a splitting headache, fever, stiff neck, difficulty walking or worsening back pain.
(15) While there are many holes in Pyne’s denial and the uncomfortably eroding rebuttal from Abbott, there were just as many questions left unanswered by the relatively patsy interview on 60 Minutes.
(16) LP: Last autumn, I worked with Unicef and Patsy and I were in Hanoi for the first time.
(17) His refusal to sign a petition calling for the release of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo led to him being dismissed by Salman Rushdie as a "patsy of the regime" , while his fellow Nobel laureate Herta Müller called his win " a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights ".
(18) The new attorney general, appointed in controversial circumstances last December, is seen by the opposition as a Brotherhood patsy.
(19) Clegg had been prepared for attacks by Labour that he has turned into a Tory patsy, but he is insistent he has ensured the budget has not followed the path of most previous fiscal consolidations by hitting the poor hardest.
(20) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
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.