And having two sets of data to choose from would create immense political headaches for state legislatures.

The highly visible cost of filling up a gas tank could become a political headache for the Bush administration.

In many cities it has become a real financial, administrative, and political headache.

A big government construction program invites political and administrative headaches, needlessly.

That is largely because an independent budget office would create political headaches for both sides in City Hall.

Another group opposes nuclear development as entirely too expensive, unnecessary given the vast oil or gas reserves and not worth the international political headache.

The payouts are likely to prove a political headache for the government at a time of rising inflation and mounting job losses.

Put another way, she has to take all the political headaches, and I get to get on with the everyday business of executing policy.

But finding a husband was a political and religious headache.

But the proposal might have produced as many political headaches as it was meant to solve.