However I in this cas the banks are a straw man, a convenient target.

"Now he comes with what he thinks is a convenient target - the teachers' union," she said.

She was just a convenient target for some animal's hostility.

It's so much easier to find convenient targets for your fears than to face them, isn't it?

The kid had just been a convenient target.

You're loaded with personal grudges, which you took out on him simply because he was a convenient target.

If Rizzo wanted to make himself a convenient target for that anger, fine.

If they were all gathering together in one location, for whatever reason, they would be a convenient target.

None of this is his fault, but he makes a convenient target for my rage.

Not at Bob Herbert; the intelligence chief was simply a convenient target.