political football
Example Sentences
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The plan to build a tunnel between the station and New Jersey has been kicked around like a political football for more than 15 years.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 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
On Sept. 1 Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled her administration’s plan to end homelessness in the city, a political football since Richard Nixon told his administrators to give homeless activist Mitch Snyder a building in D.C.
From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2015
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
