Sentence examples for play the issue from inspiring English sources

Newspapers have been ordered to play the issue down.

There is no sign of panic in the gilt market: the UK's budget deficit is not a matter of great concern – except, that is, to a government that wishes to play the issue up for electoral reasons, and a media, including the BBC, that has bought into "the deficit" as a story.

After months of disingenuous talk about bipartisanship and rising above politics, Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and on the presidential trail, seemed suddenly united - in their distrust of the White House's $700bn bailout plan, and their confusion as to how to play the issue to their advantage.

For Obama, no matter what social currents may be at play, the issue is hardly academic.

For investors looking to make a broadband play, the issue now becomes how long will it take for all of these new deals to pay off.

We find that the manner in which groups organize, the economic role they play, the issues they are concerned with, and the degree to which they collaborate are quite variable.

Recognising that only 25percentnt were in favour of independence they rightly played the issue down, promising a referendum 'within four years'.

Mr. Englebright said the town had long played the issue like a political football and that the letter appeared "to be insincere".

One of Mr. Romney's supporters, Mickey Edwards, a former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma who is now a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, played the issue down.

Given the unlikelihood of passing an immigration law this year, some accused Schumer of playing the issue for politics.

The Labour Party will unquestionably play the foreign-affairs issue hot & strong.