Sentence examples for playing election from inspiring English sources

Officials with Farmers accuse Mr. Perry of playing election year politics by unfairly attacking the company as a way of appealing to voters on the insurance issue.

I just hope these people from the Justice Department do what they say, and that they aren't playing election year politics.

Mr. Zhang accused American trade officials of repeatedly delaying talks over the same issues that the White House now wanted to investigate and suggested the administration was playing election season politics.

It is, in fact, such a bad idea that it represents a good argument for the reelection of Jesse Helms: if nothing else, such an outcome would discourage the rest of America's civic journalists from playing Election God again.

Speaking of the administration's reaction to the attack on Benghazi, he said, "They were playing election politics, no doubt about it".

"The Republicans show enormous disrespect to the 9/11 victims and families by playing election year politics with something as solemn as the fifth anniversary of 9/11," she said in 2006.

He, said Iraq had not violated any U.N. resolutions, and he accused the United States of playing election-year politics.

"Senator Bond is playing election-year politics by creating a smokescreen to camouflage the baseless nature of his previous criticism of HUD's action in this matter," she said.

His recent ire has apparently been piqued by an effort to install an inspector general to oversee the Police Department, a plan with broad support among the Democratic candidates and vehemently opposed by the mayor, who has accused the candidates of playing "election-year politics with the safety of our city".

Although everybody is involved in playing election-year politics, Mr. Rowland, who is currently more than 20 points ahead of the closest Democratic opponent, should certainly be capable of mustering the political courage to lead the Legislature into a budget resolution that does not add to the state's debt.

The mayor also suggested Quinn's support was a matter of playing "election-year politics".