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
“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
Sir Keir also told the programme a respectful debate was needed on the issue and said he believed it was currently being treated as a "political football".
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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
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
