political football

But he seemed determined to show that his case had become a political football.

"The case is already a political football, and they got nothing to go on.

"The Mayor feels like it could become a political football."

Education has become a political football and test scores are driving the pressure.

Education financing has always been a political football in Albany.

This is about our children for gods sake, not a political football.

State Education is a political football and always was .

There was little foresight back then that the decision would become a political football.

And any delay will only make this become a political football."

"The political football that the tax law has become - people can't understand it."

"He deserves to be more than a political football in the emerging politics of this season."

Safety should never be used as a political football.

This is no longer going to be a political football debated every two or four years."

I'm not interested in using education as a political football; this debate is about educational standards.

Boeing executives say that they are often treated as a political football.

The situation in Belarus is too delicate to be used as a political football.

He's playing political football with the lives of unborn children."

It is a political football in a game with constantly moving goal posts.

How did science become such a prominent political football?

"We are not interested in being anyone's political football."

The issue would become a political football, and that will not produce the best substantive result."

We don't allow our office to be used as a political football."

I urge him to stop any move to allow the barrage project to continue to be used as a party political football.

The National Endowment has of course been a political football in recent years.

I see Khan as a boxer, rather than a political football for liberals.