Sentences with phrase «political football»

Exam markers were accused of making school students the victims of political football today, after results showed the first decline in results in GCSE history.

OPINION: Bank bashing is one of Australia's favourite sports, and while it is generally played when banks are behaving badly, there is a time when the banks become political footballs for playing well, which is what will probably happen next week — for 16 billion reasons.

We have learned to export our wars to third - world countries where they are more out of sight and mind — except when convenient to serve as political footballs for the parties out of power to punt to those in charge.

E4E - New York's executive director argues that the Common Core should be treated as a pedagogical tool — not political football (LoHud).

Teachers today are treated more like political footballs than the highly capable professionals they really are.

It succeeds in humanizing the world's biggest political football without taking sides.

And this is why we have maintained that it serves no fruitful purpose if we play political football with judgment debt.»

«Let us be clear: We will not stand idly by while our elected officials in Albany play political football with the lives of immigrant youth.»

It's become political football during the U.S. election season.

People in those countries are obviously more baby - friendly and truly pro-life than the hypocrites in the U.S. where fetuses are merely political footballs, and those who claim to protect all life don't care if babies are cruelly asphyxiated once they have passed the birth canal.

As much of a phony political football as the Clinton Foundation became during the 2016 elections, what Bill Clinton has done, post-presidency, is very impressive in terms of dealing with world issues.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have launched a new range of NHS Political Footballs available for purchase through the party's website.

Democrats support the regulations, most Republicans do not, and so the lineups are ready for some collegiate political football.

An expensive political football Critics of throwing billions of dollars at the technology, including Australia's Green Party and some conservative coalition members, argue it will be developed too late to address climate change and is too expensive.

It's an experiment that — while proven successful in at least two other states — has its origins in a Democratic President's administration and comes fresh off of lawmakers» brush with Common Core state standards, a broad - reaching education policy that blew up into a toxic political football among conservatives because it de-emphasized local control.

Charter schools are not high - risk political footballs... at least not financially.

That UCCB cheque represented the first political football of the 2015 election.

A new video captures quite well the game of political football involving the Keystone XL pipeline, a game of overtime that's making Americans wait for jobs, economic benefits and greater energy security.

Outsourcing has long had a bad rap from misperceptions about quality, security, and of course, that ever - popular political football: jobs.

But this is Congress, and that means that this will probably become a huge political football.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

The Buffalo Billion became the latest political football in the Cuomo administration's battle with congressional Republicans over their proposal to shift county Medicaid costs to the state.

The government made it abundantly clear that they were more than happy for those on low incomes to be used as political footballs, in order to achieve nothing less than petty, childish point - scoring.

«I am not holding my children's future and education hostage to a game of political football.

The Ex-Im Bank, which provides credit insurance for businesses who extend terms to overseas customers, has been a political football of late, with conservative politicians claiming the bank overwhelmingly supports big businesses over small ones.

Over the past decade, determining the cause - and - effect relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy has become a political football, particularly during the years the Obama administration was trying to pass the ACA through Congress.

You inherited an agency that had become a political football, and had been neglected by the prior administration.

This bill, like the Affordable Care Act, is destined to become a political football.

A former Department of Justice official says the FBI became a «political football» by telling Congress about new Clinton - related emails.

But Citigroup North American economist Dana Peterson said energy could become a political football.

But in the meantime, the decision itself has turned into a political football.

The bank — which has become a political football for conservatives, who accuse it of «crony capitalism» favoring big businesses — is expected to come up for another vote in the House before the end of October.

Student loans have become a thing in America in recent years and by «thing,» we mean a political football.

But he will not be the only one who pays if the President allows the VA to be treated, once again, like a political football...»

As Carlos says this has turned into a political football about which party «won», the NDP for getting the Bill through the Legislature or the WR for stopping it or slowing it down.

The Wildrose is not interested at all in doing anything but finding a political football and if possible one that will destroy the government incrementally.

Lynas nears the end of its battle to build a rare earths refinery in Malaysia where elections could turn the project into a political football.

His remarks were in all likelihood an independent attempt to stifle a stale talking point that had turned into a political football.

It's a political football.

It has become a political football, and if government somehow becomes intertwined with «religion» the results and consequences for both will be very negative.

``... Because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion.»

The controversies have made Georgetown a political football in a national debate that divides not only Democrats and Republicans but also liberal and conservative Catholics.