[ adj ] used in or connected with a sacrifice <adj.pert> sacrificial lamb
Sacrificial \Sac`ri*fi"cial\, a. Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice. ``Sacrificial rites.'' --Jer. Taylor.
"He was fired from the White House, offered as a sacrificial lamb so to speak to the raging Congress," Sullivan said, referring to the day North was fired in November 1986.
In 1961, a group of local businessmen built a temple on the site, equipped with bronze dogs, sacrificial urns with canine engravings and statues of Taoist sages.
What better sacrificial lamb?
He was found slain on a ranch near the border city on April 11. Investigators said he was the sacrificial victim of a drug cult.
Children as young as 13, eagerly seeking a martyr's death, perished as sacrificial mine sweepers.
Sponsors were leery of his passion for public issues, progressive causes and free verse. His programs usually aired in sacrificial time slots opposite Bob Hope or Jack Benny.
It recalls Adam of Bremen's story of the corpses of sacrificial victims hung like pheasants in the grove at Uppsala. The last room contains spectacular artistic proof of what happened once Thor's worshippers had evolved into pilgrims and crusaders.
Maybe this nation, the sacrificial lamb of great power politics, deserves peace more than any other.
Supporters of the measure contend the domestic textile industry and its workers are being used as a "sacrificial lamb" in the administration's jockeying to reduce foreign trade barriers to U.S. exports.
One of the sacrificial victims was Mark Kilroy, 21, a university student from Santa Fe, Texas.
A 21-year-old University of Texas pre-med student kidnapped while on spring vacation, Mark Kilroy, was among the sacrificial victims.