sacrificial

There was something at once sacrificial and redemptive in what McDonald was channeling in her art, and I left the Majestic Theatre feeling reborn.

“For no real reason, our congresswoman is under attack when she is doing a sacrificial thing,” City Councilmember Carroll Fife said at the March event.

This he called "sacrificial land in some locations to allow to flood so that communities don't flood downstream, for example".

Some Trump opponents have worried that Gaetz was a "sacrificial lamb" and that Senate Republicans wouldn't press their luck by challenging other nominees.

In the other 11, losing parties ran sacrificial lambs with zero chance of winning, who generated little electoral heat.