playing politics
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He argued that whisky was "very high" up the list of priorities for the UK as it seeks further trade concessions from the US and warned Swinney against "playing politics".
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
“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
“We’re trying to create a new way of playing politics that’s about solidarity, camaraderie, love — things that benefit all folks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2022
He had all its pliability, its good humor, its broad and easy way with things, its passion for playing politics.
From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)