Sentence examples for playing the class from inspiring English sources

Playing the class card might also help.

Mr. Brown resisted playing the class card directly.

"You can't be playing the class warfare card".

He also insisted that his decision to draw on his north London comprehensive education background in his "one nation" speech was to explain what makes him "tick", rather than playing the class card.

Unite members will also need to reflect on whether Unite's claim that it is simply encouraging more "working class" MPs is a bogus argument that sits behind a crude attempt to place middle class officials and close friends into jobs: playing the class card is never wise, especially if the sitting MP, council-house born and bred, left school at 16 to become a squaddie.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer contributor Melanie McFarland said that Reubens was "perfectly cast as such a freak", though in regards to Rossellini's appearance "[s]he glides in playing the class act we're used to, but when Rossellini dissolves into a shocking mess, she yields one of the series' most absurd scenes yet".

Playing the class-war card against someone like Mr. Moritz is a questionable tactic.

Mr. Obama is thus playing the class-war card more aggressively than any Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt — surpassing Harry S. Truman or John F. Kennedy when they attacked big business or Lyndon B. Johnson or Jimmy Carter when they posed as champions of the little guy.

My only hope is to shamelessly play the class card.

When Labour tried to play the class card against the Bullingdon Boy, it seemed to backfire.

In desperate response von Pickles played the class card, which may well explain his survival in an Eton Dorney cabinet.