11.   In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football.

12.   And he comes to mind because service in the National Guard and Reserves has become something of a political football again.

13.   At approximately the same moment that the boy was rescued, he was turned into a political football.

14.   Bethune also accuses the convention of using his church as a political football.

15.   Boeing executives say that they are often treated as a political football.

16.   A film that opened without incident in Ireland and Italy is becoming a political football in the U.S.

17.   A political football and cash cow?

18.   A political football for President Clinton.

19.   But any choice is a political football.

20.   But new fences are a political football.