political football
Example Sentences
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"With the restoration of the Assembly, now is the time to grasp the opportunity to work together, rather than have policing as a political football."
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024
“We’re a political football by no means of our own,” Brian Mason, chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, said in an interview Thursday.
From Washington Times • May 26, 2023
Some of the biggest increases are in West Coast cities such as Sacramento and Portland, Oregon, where growing homelessness has become a humanitarian crisis and political football over the past decade.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
The infrastructure bill is not a political football.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2021
In the East they were called "blacksmith-shop politicians, nail-keg economists, grousers and soreheads"; in the West they were dubbed "corner-grocer statesmen and political football players."
From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins
