playing politics
Example Sentences
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"This isn't playing politics - it's taking politics very seriously," he tells the Today programme.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
“Instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done.”
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
“We’re not playing politics with this, we’re demanding real, transformative policy change,” Johnson said this week.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2024
Politicians in both parties should do whatever they can to stop those killings from happening, instead of playing politics with life-or-death situations.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023
Whether Fremont was acting from conviction or "playing politics" may be left to his biographers.
From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)