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