playing politics
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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
“Either party should think twice about playing politics over a candidate that is this qualified for the position who’s also AAPI,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Barger rejected suggestions that Mnuchin was playing politics with the Postal Service, noting that Democratic governors had met with top Treasury officials under Mnuchin.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2020
For all her grace and magnetism, May-ling was a woman fatally addicted to luxury, and Ei-ling spent much of her life playing politics to maintain an opulent lifestyle for the Soong clan.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
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 Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
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