11.   In other words, state workers make convenient targets for cuts, especially in big states, and cuts are occurring.

12.   She was a convenient target.

13.   Secular nationalists provide convenient targets, but so do officially Islamic regimes if they engage with the West.

14.   That dramatic growth has only encouraged NPR to become more cautious, which has turned Giovannoni into a convenient target.

15.   The Colts struggled, and the first player taken in the draft soon became the convenient target of local frustrations.

16.   Then, as now, blacks were a convenient target, said Roger Waldinger, the chairman of the sociology department at the University of California at Los Angeles.

17.   They add that when it was rejected, she needed someone to blame, and that the mayor was a convenient target.

18.   They are deserving scapegoats as well as convenient targets of opportunity for ambitious politicians, disgruntled customers and skeptical media types.

19.   Third, Butch Carter is hardly above reproach when it comes to slinging mud at convenient targets.

20.   While Goldman may be a convenient target, blaming the firm is like shooting the messenger who brings bad news, investors said.