Sentence examples for float a trial balloon from inspiring English sources

When an American politician is considering a Presidential campaign, it's common to float a "trial balloon".

Back then, when White House officials wanted to float a trial balloon, they'd do it talking to one of the super-columnists.

One prominent Democratic lawyer attending a fund-raiser in Santa Monica on Sunday observed that most politicians interested in running for higher office would float a trial balloon first, to avoid embarrassment.

Reading about the responses on both sides, I couldn't help but wonder: was Secretary Sebelius asked to float a trial balloon?

Clearly, Bloomberg is floating a trial balloon, but he appears to be sending it aloft with serious intent.

What I think happened is they floated a trial balloon, some people got upset, so they walked it back".

On Wednesday, Senator Murkowski's political allies floated a trial balloon to reporters: perhaps she would run in the general election as a third-party candidate.

A spokesman in the office of Mr Sistani, first among equals of Iraq's four grand ayatollahs, insisted that he would not seek to impose Islamic law.Still, many secular-minded Iraqis are worried that the ayatollahs had been floating a trial balloon and still want to impose a conservative, religion-influenced legal code, if not a theocracy.

Remember last winter, when new Commissioner Rob Manfred floated a trial balloon about banning defensive shifts?

After Trump floats a trial balloon of taxing Mexican imports 20percenttoto pay for the wall, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto cancels his trip to the White House.

After Robertson was temporarily dumped, A&E floated a trial balloon to see just how big a hit it would take if it kept Robertson cooling his broadcast heels for any prolonged length of time.