| 单词 | whipping boy |
| 例句 | But all the while he was feeling a growing exasperation with his whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Jackie was no sycophant or whipping boy, as he’s been described by other writers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Let him wait. And mind your own affairs, whipping boy." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The prince threw him a smirking glance as Master Peckwit raised the switch and beat the whipping boy like a carpet. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Defiantly biting back every yelp and cry, the whipping boy received the twenty whacks. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "You don't need my whipping boy to get into the castle. There's a better way." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "The king has offered a reward for the whipping boy. Here he stands. Turn him in." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, if and when crime rates rise—which seems likely if the nation’s economy continues to sour—nothing would deter politicians from making black and brown men, once again, their favorite whipping boys. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He'd been dreaming happily of his ragged but carefree life before he'd been plucked from the streets and sewers of the city to serve as royal whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He glared icily at the whipping boy who had seized his royal title. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "Take a chaw of garlic, whipping boy. It'll improve the taste considerable." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Prince Brat's mouth fell wide open at the whipping boy's nervy mischief. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "Forgive me! Don't trouble yourself, my good and loyal Prince. And get yourself another whipping boy." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The whipping boy learned to read, write, and do sums. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "A whipping boy is supposed to yowl like a stuck pig! We dress you up fancy and feed you royal, don't we? It's no fun if you don't bawl!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "You're the worst whipping boy I ever had! How come you never bawl?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "You may live in the castle, but you're only a whipping boy. Do as we say!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "Got one! The whipping boy, it is! Where's your master, eh?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "Send it to the castle in the hands of my whipping boy." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "No, no, lad. Let's have it from bottom to top. Read it backwards. I do hope for your whipping boy's sake you don't stumble and trip as if the real words ain't on paper." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z But tech firms clearly make convenient whipping boys. San Francisco Repurposes Old for the Future 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Le Corbusier unfairly became a whipping boy for all of modernism’s ills — that much Flint makes clear. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Don’t use your waiter as a punching bag or your busboy as, well, your whipping boy. Hoping to have a good dinner? Be a good diner. 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Though Chilton is a ridiculous man, he doesn’t deserve the fate of whipping boy that he repeatedly finds himself in. 'Hannibal' Recap: Do You See? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Nick Clegg is a "whipping boy", he said, and the Oscars are beset by a "certain amount of snobbery". Outtakes: the week's film news in brief 2012-02-09T20:00:13Z During the 18th and 19th centuries Caravaggio was everyone's whipping boy – not just an iconoclast, but a heretic and even an atheist. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z In an era when virtually every Hollywood actor and director ingested all sorts of elaborate chemicals, Hopper became the media's whipping boy for drug abuse. Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z But Ramsay lost his lover, bride and whipping boy while he was distracted by battle. Is He Really Dead? And Where Does 'Game of Thrones' Stand for Season 6? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z After all, Frank was the apple of Dad’s eye while Bill was the whipping boy. 'Masters of Sex' recap: Virginia faces a bitter truth, as does Bill 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Greg, on the other hand, is a tool – frequently a whipping boy, sometimes a human shield, lately a corporate guillotine. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Having a whipping boy is more important than ever now that the election is over and there is no Democratic opponent to malign at every turn. What TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z I was always the whipping boy for whenever my three younger siblings did wrong or they were in a mood. A letter to … my parents, whose favouritism ripped our family apart 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z As McNaughton talks, with some thoughtful sadness, about being the “whipping boy” of the art world he spent a lifetime hoping to join, he’s not the person you expect him to be. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Take the Turner prize, favourite whipping boy of the amateur critic. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z Even so, to have been appointed the all-purpose whipping boy for punk, a movement which he had championed both in print and behind the scenes, was a spectacularly cruel and unjust fate. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z Critics of welfare, big government and modern architecture all used the project as a whipping boy. Critic?s Notebook: Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales 2012-01-25T19:30:11Z So over time, the kid from St. Louis — the one who grew up dreaming of playing for the Tigers — became the whipping boy of fans pining for their program to return to prominence. Missouri quarterback Brady Cook endures the home boos and keeps the Tigers on an unbeaten roll 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z So over time, the kid from St. Louis - the one who grew up dreaming of playing for the Tigers - became the whipping boy of fans pining for their program to return to prominence. Missouri quarterback Brady Cook endures the home boos and keeps the Tigers on an unbeaten roll 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z He's been a Champions League whipping boy before and it wasn't fun. 'Rodgers would have it all to prove in more testing arena' 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z CNN is and always will be the right's whipping boy, the network they love to hate. CNN should have learned from Fox News 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z They made themselves convenient whipping boys for his brand of performative ideology. Column: A cowardly NHL bows down to a bullying DeSantis 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Earl J. Hess, a historian and author of a Bragg biography titled “The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy,” has described the general as “the Confederacy’s chief whipping boy.” How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z And sometimes, as in Poland and Hungary, he said, Germany is a useful whipping boy for nationalist political campaigns, especially among populists, which feeds into a larger anti-E.U. sentiment. On Ukraine and on Energy, Germany Is Upsetting Its Allies in Europe 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Lake, a former news anchor for a local Fox station, has tried to turn the news media into a campaign whipping boy. In Arizona Governor’s Race, a Question Looms: ‘Where’s Katie?’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Analysts at the National Australia Bank said the Aussie was the market's "whipping boy" in a sell off and that further lows were possible in the near term as sentiment is fragile. Dollar gains, yen flirts with intervention levels 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The game was done - Oval Invincibles' men, who finished fourth last year, were heading for a heavy defeat against London Spirit - last season's whipping boys. 'The thrilling Hundred finale no-one expected' 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He has also pledged to ban federal ministers from attending the World Economic Forum held annually in Davos, Switzerland -- a popular whipping boy for convoy participants and far-right supporters more globally. In protests and politics, Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' reverberates 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Manson has always been someone’s whipping boy or source of revenue from television to newspapers all his life, so I know it is hard for anyone to understand, but I never wanted anything from him.” Woman who says she's Charles Manson's sister withdraws from dispute over his estate 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z But currency markets' whipping boy this week has been the euro, which has fallen 2% against the dollar and is teetering on the brink of parity versus the greenback . Morning Bid: No quiet end to the week, it's payrolls Friday 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Paymer is an asset, playing with effortless conviction the eternal whipping boy who has a core of real strength. Review | Billy Crystal, bringing the funny in Broadway’s ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead, Sen. Nancy Skinner had to file Senate Bill 206 five years later, outfoxing higher education leaders everywhere, not just Emmert, their whipping boy. Commentary: Here is why Mark Emmert will be remembered as the guy who tanked the NCAA 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He's also the occasional whipping boy for United's poor performances, particularly when Paul Pogba is not on the field, but he's not allowed it to get to him or affect his performances. Who might be valuable for Tottenham? 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Cincinnati face the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday looking to claim their first NFL title and complete their journey from whipping boys to 'world champions'. How Bengals turned around their fortunes 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z McCoy and Easley soberly remarked on the many ways in which Exxon has effectively shut down meaningful climate action, even describing oil industry trade groups like the American Petroleum Institute as the company's "whipping boys." Corporate America's top 10 blunders of 2021 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Called “Reflections on the Church and America’s New Religions,” Gomez laid into two of the right’s favorite whipping boys with the gusto of a Tucker Carlson. Column: L.A.’s top Catholic goes off on ‘woke’ culture, social justice movements 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z And what better way to do that than by racking up a few goals against the team that, on paper, ought to be the quartet’s whipping boys? Club Brugge v Manchester City: Champions League – live! 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z McCoy even said that Exxon often sends oil industry trade groups like the American Petroleum Institute to lobby for the company's interests as its "whipping boys." How a Greenpeace undercover reporting team embarrassed ExxonMobil 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z “And it’s moved from an ideological whipping boy to a set of popular benefits that the public values.” GOP needs new health care target; ‘Obamacare’ survives again 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "It was a cauldron of noise and helped the host nation. Hungary were declared as the whipping boys and were holding the champions. For so long Hungary were going toe-to-toe with Portugal." 'Ronaldo walks on water' as Portugal win 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that whipping boy of big-business conservatives everywhere, demonstrated its value to the average consumer this week by explaining the pitfalls of bitcoins and other such “virtual currencies.” Column: Coinbase brought bitcoin to Wall Street. That doesn’t make crypto legit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z They were terrible last week against Premier League whipping boys Southampton. Leicester City v Sheffield United: Premier League – live! 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Kleinbard’s discussion of the argument in his book used conservative economist Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago as a whipping boy. Column: Farewell to USC's Ed Kleinbard, 68, a peerless champion of the public interest 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Analysts say that Pompeo is acting as a whipping boy for the Trump administration as a whole and President Trump in particular. China wasn’t wild about Mike Pompeo before the virus. It’s really gunning for him now. 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s self-defeating to use immigration as a political whipping boy, which will only put Mr. Mulvaney’s self-evident prescription further out of reach. Opinion | Trump says America is ‘full.’ Mick Mulvaney lets slip that isn’t true. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “This is the incremental change, it would be over 12 years. This is just using a well-meaning effort as a whipping boy.” Northeast governors slow to embrace regional climate pact 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z With scrutiny from the left and right mounting as the 2020 campaign prepares to kick into full swing, Facebook is poised to become a favorite whipping boy of candidates on the left and the right. Facebook may soon curtail its political advertising policies 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Gargiulo, 43, who remained emotionless for the entirety of the testimony and verdict, was ridiculed by his family as “the weak link, the sissy-boy, the designated whipping boy of the family.” 'Hollywood Ripper' Michael Gargiulo should get the death penalty, jury says 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Gargiulo stared ahead, expressionless, as the psychologist described him being ridiculed by his family as “the weak link, the sissy-boy, the designated whipping boy of the family.” 'Boy next door killer' Michael Gargiulo sentenced to death 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “Zelenskiy is softly showing that he doesn’t want to be Trump’s hand puppet or whipping boy and is capable of leading an independent game and policy.” Ukraine’s Zelenskiy plays hot and cold with Trump team 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He hurled more insults at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, a Trump appointee who has become the president’s favored whipping boy. Analysis | Trump has one playbook, and very few plays left in it 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z A notoriously deliberate player, Holmes again became a whipping boy for his pace throughout the weekend. Lowry's Open triumph, Koepka's frustrations on Holmes' slow play and Schauffele rips R&A for driver controversy: What you missed - Golf Digest 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z While saying he was appropriately skeptical of Facebook’s proposal, McHenry urged lawmakers to move beyond making the company a political whipping boy. Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan gets a second round of hate in Congress 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z This all felt more of a useful exercise than the alternative: two Euro 2020 qualifiers against whipping boys. International men’s football: talking points from the week’s action 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z But has the BBC really lost its way so very profoundly, or has it merely become a convenient whipping boy for a frustrated nation mired in political crisis? Is BBC news broken? And if so, how do we fix it? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z This official unveiling of the former House Speaker as Trump’s 2020 whipping boy didn’t come as a surprise. A Weak and Rambling President Declares a Fake National Emergency 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “We’ve been able to present a different side of the story that traditionally was sort of a media’s whipping boy,” Brown told Fox News. 'Sister Wives' star Kody Brown, four spouses explain the motivation to chronicle their 'plural marriage' 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z By contrast, the biggest contributors to Ms. Gillibrand have been law firms and Ms. Warren’s favorite whipping boys: the firms of Wall Street. Elizabeth Warren is conservatives’ most-disliked liberal 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “I wasn’t going to be the whipping boy,” Iversen said in an interview, recounting the harassment she’d gotten on social media. When drag queens lead children’s story time, ‘a lot of hugs’ — and controversy — follow 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And Pogba, the coach’s personal whipping boy, assisted on two of them. What was so special about Jose Mourinho again? 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z If Barr similarly disappoints, he will become another Presidential whipping boy, just like Sessions and Tillerson and many others before him. From Rex Tillerson to William Barr: Who Would Work for Donald Trump? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But experts say the commander-in-chief’s choice of a whipping boy was wildly off base. California Inc.: American Airlines to detail $1.6 billion upgrade at LAX - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “But in the meantime they will remain the rhetorical whipping boy for lingering populist anger.” Wells Fargo touts good deeds to get back in lawmakers' good graces 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Compared with Congress, long the public’s whipping boy, the Supreme Court is held in high esteem. The Kavanaugh nomination is another big step in the politicization of the Supreme Court 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z When Marburger died in 2011, The Post wrote that he was “singled out as the administration’s whipping boy” by critical scientists. Trump desperately needs a science adviser, experts say. He just doubled the record for time without one. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The Evil Hacker is a useful whipping boy: He symbolizes our inability to take responsibility for our own tools. Politicians and media don’t understand how hacking works 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Quickly, he pivoted to the country that would become his chief campaign whipping boy, Mexico. Donald Trump has been lying since day one 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Because, it seems, he has become the president’s favorite whipping boy for not doing what Mr. Trump himself has so far not dared to do. Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions? A Tweet Provides the Answer 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Mexico continues to be a convenient whipping boy to hide the fact that its institutional corruption is very small potatoes compared to our own. Mexico Spyware Inquiry Bogs Down. Skeptics Aren’t Surprised. 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In Madrid, the governing People’s party of the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has long used Catalonia – where it wins few votes – as a whipping boy, he said. Ex-mayor called traitor says Catalan referendum has ruptured society 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Ireland’s finance minister at the time, Michael Noonan, at first defended his country’s policies: “I do not want to be the whipping boy for some misunderstanding in a hearing in the U.S. Congress.” After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for Its Profits 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The so-called mainstream media has for years been a GOP whipping boy, but now it is not merely in opposition, it is also corrupt. Opinion | Trump’s America is not mine 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The England support drew unfavourable comparisons between their oldest rival in international football and San Marino, suggesting, impolitely, that Scotland were inferior to Europe’s whipping boys. Scotland 2-2 England: five talking points from Hampden Park | Andy Hunter 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z “There is a tradition of a shaman choosing a whipping boy to break him and then remake him,” he said. A Piano Man of Many Faces, and Some Stranger Stories 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Ultimately this flaying at the hands of the Adelaide Oval’s supposed whipping boys was not so much an upset as an act of mercy. The Joy of Six: Valentine's Day sporting massacres | Barry Glendenning 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z No surprise, Wall Street also became a convenient whipping boy for ambitious politicians like Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The EPA is a favorite whipping boy across the political spectrum. AP Explains: What is the EPA, and why is it in the hot seat? 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Most refreshingly, Mr. Mnuchin was willing to dispute Republican orthodoxy regarding the Internal Revenue Service, the perennial whipping boy of the GOP. Opinion | Trump’s pick for treasury secretary has his pluses, and his minuses 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Government over-regulation is an old whipping boy in South Carolina, but it’s often unfair. South Carolina editorial roundup 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z When he picked United Technologies’ Carrier plant in Indiana as a whipping boy because of its plans to shift production to Mexico, he randomly ignored a neighboring factory that was about to do the same. The businessman president-to-be is anti-business 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A victory for PSG against the section’s whipping boys, Ludogorets, in that final round of fixtures will claim top spot and leave Arsenal fretting at what might await. PSG draw the sting of Arsenal and seize initiative in Group A 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It was a pathetic spectacle: TV news executives and anchors filing in to Trump Tower on Monday to be the president-elect’s whipping boys. Journalists shouldn’t try to win a popularity contest with Trump 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Ford Motor was a favorite whipping boy of Donald Trump on the campaign trail. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z It also signalized a willingness to continue to use the press as a whipping boy. Trump uses Twitter to bash New York Times coverage and letter to subscribers 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The company was a whipping boy for politicians looking to lay blame for the crash. 2008 Crisis Deepened the Ties Between Clintons and Goldman Sachs 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In the late ’70s and early ’80s, a few feminist critics made Wesselmann the whipping boy for the male gaze, but more damaging was the unwillingness of American museums to show the nudes. The Most Famous Pop Artist You Don’t Know 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Last year, Turing Pharmaceuticals and its Daraprim were the whipping boys for the public and our legislators. Congress should combat high pharmaceutical prices with legislation 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z A man who has spent his life among the country’s wealthiest and most influential people will make the “elites” his whipping boy. Trump’s acceptance speech: Seeking victory by scaring the country to death 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Venezuela, no longer the whipping boys of South American soccer, first reached the quarter-finals when they hosted the tournament in 2007 and got their best result four years later when they reached the last four. Luis Suárez fumes as Venezuela dump Uruguay out of Copa América 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The most exciting thing about him is his eagerness to play the fool, the whipping boy, and the sponge. Zac Efron's abs can't save the miserable Dirty Grandpa 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Other opponents of Putin consider them whipping boys, props in a nationally televised affirmation of Russia’s righteousness. Russia’s TV talk shows smooth Putin’s way from crisis to crisis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Dynamo Kiev - who face whipping boys Maccabi Tel Aviv - will be sure of a place in the last 16 with a win thanks to a superior head-to-head record against Porto. Who can qualify in Champions League? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But the region’s governments, including Turkey, are also deeply divided among themselves, leaving the administration as both whipping boy for their complaints and mediator for their disagreements as it tries to implement a broad strategy. The White House insists it has a plan to fight Islamic State and that it’s working 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Clearly the odds are against an away win, but then losing to the league’s whipping boys would somehow be a very Spursy thing to do. Tottenham v Aston Villa: Premier League – live! 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It plays against the world’s elite on a regular basis, but these days tends act as a whipping boy of the Six Nations, performing a level below the likes of England, Wales, Ireland and France. Rugby World Cup: Eagles Hold off Scots—for a Half 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z But it will be a surprise to those net-neut advocates who made cable their whipping boys, and who now discover regulation is actually strengthening rather than weakening cable’s hold on the broadband business. Obama’s Cable Monopoly Boom 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z For four generations, his city’s schools have been “the whipping boy of its conservative power structure,” he said. Talented urban teacher says new national education laws won’t work 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z It isn’t easy being the whipping boy of a thoroughly lashed sector. Saipem’s Russia Blow Dents Recovery Hopes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Clearly the odds are against an away win, but then losing to the league’s whipping boys would somehow be a very Spursy thing to do. Tottenham v Aston Villa: Premier League – live! 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z He describes his role as an "international whipping boy" for what was then a pariah state. As Myanmar rights official, an Elvis impersonator sings different tune 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “It does get frustrating and unfortunately we do tend to be the whipping boy that tends to be isolated,” Coyotes co-owner Anthony LeBlanc said Tuesday from Gila River Arena. Coyotes owner says team intent on staying in Arizona 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Skinner said the Obama administration made Walgreens “a whipping boy to further their agenda.” Walgreens Says HQ Won't Leave U.S., Never Intended 'Inversion' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z "Don't come here and use me as a whipping boy for a national and international problem," Arpaio said. 5 times Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio didn't shy away from controversy 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Now, it is the Millennials’ turn to be the whipping boys, and girls. Leaders Need To Bridge The Generation Gap 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Cue up the partisan-politics pundits after today’s announcement that a Department of Energy loan stimulus program – once the whipping boy for big-government critics from all corners – is back in business. Controversial Government Loan Program Seeks Shot At Redemption In Auto Industry 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Montgomery is illegally used as a whipping boy,” the suit says. Journalist James Risen Sued for Reporting Post-9/11 Contractor Was Con Man 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Making it a whipping boy for Republican dyspepsia at Mr. Obama’s immigration policy risks further debilitating the department. On Homeland Security funding, Republicans govern without logic 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I think the irony is lost on King Goodell, but the league has made a whipping boy of Peterson for its poor and inconsistent enforcement of league morals standards. Arbitrator Upholds Season-Long Ban of Vikings’ Adrian Peterson 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s been the good-guy poster child for healthful eating for so long that it’s become the reflex whipping boy for anyone who wants to act out a little bit. Get over it, it's broccoli and it's delicious, with 12 recipes 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Oil is the whipping boy for this stock market correction. Oil Stocks At Extreme Pessimism - Time To Buy 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z "One will imagine they'll be looking at us as the whipping boys and that's exactly how I want it at the moment," added Diamond. Cipriani 'must not focus' on England 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z On the plus side, Turkey are yet to play the whipping boys of Group A. They’re due to visit Holland in March. International review: Holland find their level, Northern Ireland on the charge 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Senate candidates are eagerly using President Barack Obama as their whipping boy as they debate their Democratic opponents across the country. In Senate Debates, Fear and Loathing of Obama 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Manchester United were the reigning champions, Burnley the supposed whipping boys. Burnley v Manchester United 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z After its regular appearances as the whipping boy for all that is bad in payday lending, Wonga is attempting to offer a new face to customers - and its critics. Cuddly puppets axed as Wonga attempts big clean-up 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Costa Rica have made a mockery of all the predictions that had them down as the whipping boys of Group D, following up their victory over Uruguay by magnificently upsetting the odds against Italy. World Cup 2014 power rankings: France out in front after two matches 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z She added: "We are so guarded and so on message that we have lost our humanity. We are the whipping boy of the coalition." Local elections: Ukip delivers first tremors of political earthquake 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z And then there’s Costa Rica, already set up to be the whipping boys of the group. Live Blog: World Cup Draw - The Daily Fix - WSJ 2013-12-06T05:00:00Z But he said he feared efforts to make the V.A. into a whipping boy for the smaller-government movement, even though surveys show that, over all, most veterans are satisfied with their health care. American Legion, Citing Problems, Calls for Veterans Secretary to Resign 2014-05-08T01:33:06Z The Catholic Church, of course, is the media’s favorite whipping boy. About Those Nine Great Priest-Scientists.... 2014-03-27T12:47:00Z The front page also has a first person piece from inside the European Court of Human rights - "a whipping boy for the UK right", as it describes it. Storm warnings and 'rivers of blood' 2013-12-22T23:09:29Z "He argues that the state should set clear rules for markets and not interfere with big business or the financial sector, two traditional whipping boys for the centre-left." Profile: Florence mayor Matteo Renzi 2013-12-09T02:49:17Z The whole concept became a whipping boy for all sorts of economic evils. Voters Won't Like It, But We Have to Bring Back Free Trade 2013-09-17T09:05:22Z Mr. Summers, who the president said had become something of a “progressive whipping boy,” appears to be a strong contender to succeed Ben S. Bernanke as chairman of the . Obama Narrows Field for Fed Chairman to 3 2013-08-02T01:43:52Z “Google especially could find itself in the hot seat because it has become this generation’s over there – it is now everyone’s favorite whipping boy in terms of privacy.” So The U.S. Government Monitors European Citizens. What Does That Mean For U.S. Companies That Monitor European Citizens? 2013-07-01T01:32:00Z They reason that this might be another example of media taking potshots at the NCAA, a frequent whipping boy. O’Bannon case could change NCAA landscape 2013-06-18T18:15:48Z Meetings are a favorite whipping boy of the business world, and it’s not hard to see why. Key to Productive Meetings? How You End Them 2013-06-12T12:00:45Z Finance Minister Michael Noonan said Ireland would not be the "whipping boy" for the Senate subcommittee. Ireland readies diplomatic corps to rebuff tax haven claims 2013-05-27T15:11:02Z One recent headline blared about his “meteoric rise and fall,” another said he had gone from “political darling to national whipping boy.” Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Political Decline 2013-05-20T02:13:09Z The iPad Mini marked the latest evolution of a product first launched in 2009 In a short time Apple has gone from Wall Street's darling to its favourite whipping boy. What should Apple launch next? 2013-04-22T23:17:45Z Big data was last year’s celebrity, now it’s the whipping boy for oversold Hadoop solutions, and next year it will fade into being an accepted part of tech news life. I Scoff At The Trough 2013-01-30T17:54:47Z "Poor old Jeffrey's been more than just a whipping boy - he's been assassinated really several times." 'Make gay dean bishop in Wales' 2013-01-05T11:30:18Z Yes, you could do some productivity work, but iOS's lack of multi-tasking, a favourite whipping boy of the critics, made it difficult. Apple can finish what Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky started 2012-11-19T11:12:06Z Still, the Dutch giants are supposed to be the whipping boys in Group D and City are huge odds-on favourites tonight. Manchester City v Ajax - live! 2012-11-06T18:30:01Z In the aftermath of that crash, program trading became a whipping boy. High & Low Finance: A Computer Lesson From 1987, Still Unlearned by Wall Street 2012-10-18T22:40:38Z For one thing, he has made a rhetorical whipping boy of investment bankers. Obama Fights His Own Bull Market 2012-10-12T10:00:54Z The European Cup winners endured some awkward moments against Nordsjaelland, Group E's whipping boys elect, on Tuesday night before a flurry of late goals put gloss on the Londoners' 4-0 victory. Revitalised Chelsea can win Champions League in style, says Juan Mata 2012-10-03T22:00:01Z In order to create the funds necessary for student loan forgiveness, 54% of respondents said the government should erase subsidies to oil and gas companies, the cliche whipping boys of people everywhere. Education Shocker: 81% Of Those With Student Loan Debt Want It Forgiven 2012-09-12T18:54:49Z In a sense, Samsung kind of served as the whipping boy for Apple’s Android anger. Apple's Win over Samsung Is Good News for Consumers 2012-04-02T04:15:00Z There’s a good chance billionaire industrialists and liberal whipping boys Charles and David Koch are making money off your weekly shopping cart. Want To Boycott Koch Brothers' Products While Shopping? There's An App For That 2012-06-18T20:07:41Z Back then, the Senators were the Yankees’ whipping boys. Shades of ’69: Winning Washington Team Meets Yankees 2012-06-15T03:28:31Z In just two hours, Jamie Dimon went from Washington’s whipping boy to the Republican Party’s brain trust on regulating Wall Street. Jamie Dimon: From Wall Street’s whipping boy to the GOP’s golden boy 2012-06-13T19:21:00Z Some may even personally blame Bernard, who seems to be the whipping boy of late for every issue that ails IndyCar. In The Pits: It was a wild week for Indycar 2012-06-04T20:01:15Z Copa America holders Uruguay failed to end their Venezuela jinx, going a fifth World Cup qualifier in succession without beating the region's former whipping boys. Messi sends Argentina top in World Cup qualifying 2012-06-03T02:28:18Z He also had to endure being Wittman’s “whipping boy,” as he often got chewed out after every mistake or missed defensive alignment. Coach Randy Wittman gets endorsements from Wizards players 2012-04-28T03:39:41Z Calipari is a convenient whipping boy for all that's wrong with college athletics, but he's simply playing the hand he's been dealt better than any other coach. March Madness over; now for some real madness 2012-04-11T23:35:14Z It does bother us that the church continues to be a whipping boy.” In Albany, Cardinal Timothy Dolan Is Friendly Yet Concerned 2012-03-13T05:25:01Z Plaschke, for those who don’t know, is inexplicably the whipping boy for Times readers, whose weekly letters to the editor would make a man with thinner skin quit. Super Bowl 2012: Tom Brady, Eli Manning and the second-best Sunday of the season 2012-01-25T14:35:51Z Harry S. Truman famously used Congress as a whipping boy to great advantage in 1948. The Caucus: As He Takes Aim at Congress, Obama Risks Hitting Democrats 2012-01-09T14:37:17Z The press release contained no mention of Light Squared the usual whipping boy for Clearwire in recent weeks. No Mention of LightSquared, Clearwire Gets a Boost in the Sprint Debt Offering News 2011-11-07T04:38:16Z “Merkel is the whipping boy now, but she also understands brinkmanship,” Smith said. Merkel Risks Own Downfall as Odyssey to Save Greece Nears Climax 2011-10-19T22:22:03Z He is the regular whipping boy of two New York tabloid sports media columnists. Voice of Yankees Draws High Ratings and Several Critics 2011-10-01T16:50:12Z “This court’s role is not to validate a prosecutorial public relations effort, nor is it to single out one man to serve as the whipping boy for Wall Street misdeeds,” Rajaratnam argued. Rajaratnam Protests ‘Grotesquely Severe’ U.S. Sentence Bid 2011-09-10T01:11:01Z "They have become the whipping boy," said Coffee. Goldman Sachs targeted as 'Jaws' joins battle over banking crash 2011-08-27T23:07:24Z For years, Bell was the whipping boy on the cricket blogs. Andrew Strauss proves his batting still speaks as loud as his captaincy 2011-08-11T15:16:30Z To which the grumblers retorted that Miss Wharf liked someone to vent her temper on, and that the poor girl, being too pretty, did duty as a whipping boy. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z "There's uncertainty about the sustainability of oil prices and about whether the energy companies are going to be the favorite political whipping boy." Why Big Oil Is a Good Buy 2011-05-12T21:00:00Z “There’s uncertainty about the sustainability of oil prices and about whether the energy companies are going to be the favorite political whipping boy.” Oil Stocks Cheap as Tax No Threat to Argentina-Sized Profits 2011-05-09T14:57:14Z With the rise of these rivals came one benefit: as time passed, the once hated Great Satan was no longer everybody's favorite whipping boy. 2006 Cover Story: Five Years Later 2011-05-02T05:31:28Z They are just words of fiction in a country that is being used as Europe's whipping boy. Portuguese bail-out: Your views 2011-04-08T10:38:27Z His latest whipping boy: Samsung, a rival to Apple in the consumer electronics business. Apple's Jobs Razzes Chip Partner Samsung 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z He has made us basically the whipping boy for anything that goes wrong in New Jersey and the country and in Bangladesh if there’s an earthquake. How Chris Christie Did His Homework 2011-02-24T17:57:37Z Of course, nothing is as convenient a whipping boy as officiating. Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott sees "significant opportunity for improvement" of conference's football officiating 2011-02-16T03:02:04Z Any idea why or how Cutler became the media's whipping boy? Reader Q&A: Bears mailbag 2011-01-21T20:45:00Z So far London Irish have been the whipping boys, their form dipping after an opening round win over Munster. Heineken Cup giants feel the ground shifting beneath their feet 2011-01-14T00:06:01Z He became the whipping boy — I will say unfairly. Ducks' path to title game required a leap of faith 2011-01-10T02:55:05Z Armstrong said it was easy for people to use the International Cycling Union as a "whipping boy." Armstrong says he's not affected by drug probe 2011-01-05T20:54:01Z Ironically, his old favorite whipping boy, Bill Clinton, is no longer the toxic figure in Virginia he once was. The real reason George Allen's comeback is doomed 2011-01-03T14:01:00Z That's how he became the media's "whipping boy," to use your term. Reader Q&A: Bears mailbag 2011-01-21T20:45:00Z The highest profile incident occurred last June and involved Washington’s current favorite whipping boy, Goldman Sachs. DealBook: Another View: Lessons From Pecora Were Ignored 2010-10-14T16:30:00Z As the Games lurches from one infrastructure mishap to another, amid allegations that the athletes village is beyond filthy, Kalmadi is a convenient whipping boy. Commonwealth Games chaos shows all that is wrong with sport in India 2010-09-22T23:17:00Z "Lots of questions were asked about him last season and he was made something of a whipping boy," Ferguson wrote. Glorious goal shows why Manchester United fans love Dimitar Berbatov 2010-09-20T06:01:00Z Lots of questions were asked about him last season and he was made something of a whipping boy, to the point where he must have wondered whether he had a future at Old Trafford. Sir Alex Ferguson revels in Manchester United victory over Liverpool 2010-09-19T21:01:00Z Not without good reason are Andorra regarded as one of European football's whipping boys. Streetwise Irish on right road after win 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z "I am their favorite whipping boy and it is not the first time that such allegations are made against me," Mr. Gul said. Reports Depict Ex-Spy as Taliban Link 2010-07-26T17:53:00Z Castleford believe they have been selected as convenient whipping boys to allow the governing body to bask in the positive publicity that followed their imposition of the fine. Castleford fret over homophobic chants 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z If companies -- or people -- are willing to be whipping boys, others will, not surprisingly, pile on. On Leadership: BP's Hayward vs. Obama: A race to the bottom? 2010-06-20T04:00:00Z Before 1961, the Blackhawks went 23 years without winning and for much of that time were considered the league’s whipping boys. Remembering Stanley Cups Past for Blackhawks and Flyers 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z This was the day the championship favourites revived memories of their demoralising early years as a first-class county when they were the whipping boys of nearly every county in the land. Brown profits to leave Durham on brink 2010-05-12T19:06:00Z "And they are kind of a whipping boy for Congress." Goldman stock "dead money" at best, Calamos says 2010-04-28T17:49:00Z Executives warn that the firm's position as the whipping boy for a public enraged by financial industry bailouts will crimp future profits. Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us 2010-04-01T21:00:00Z It is a shame that landlords and their homes are too often treated as the whipping boy of the housing market. Response: Don't blame buy-to-let investors. I'm proud to be a landlord 2010-03-19T00:05:00Z While discretionary spending is a politically popular whipping boy, experts say the far more important issue is the expected growth of the big three entitlement programs: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Obama Creates a Commission to Shrink the Deficit 2010-02-22T21:28:00Z "Well I don't consider...us a whipping boy and I don't consider the environmentalists to be those characters," he said. Movie "Avatar" has few fans among mining execs 2010-03-11T21:36:00Z Jose, in contrast, is under pressure to kick-start the hosts' campaign against a team which many expected to be the whipping boys of the group. 2010-01-13T17:31:00Z I often think, sir, of those two medieval institutions which we have now lost—I suppose irrevocably—the whipping boy and the court jester. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Talmash was the eldest daughter of Mr. Murray, Charles I.'s page and whipping boy. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 He is, in truth, a sort of whipping boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. Venetia The use of a whipping boy punished for another's fault is well known. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II The "Anglo-Saxon" three thousand miles away who cannot hit back is a scapegoat, a whipping boy for the so-called "Anglo-Saxon" American at home. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism "And then the whipping boy," he went on, "think of him!" King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties In others he denounces it as rank Judaism, the Jew having at that time become for him the whipping boy for all modern humanity. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring |
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