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"hot potato" Definitions
  1. a problem, situation, etc. that is difficult and unpleasant to deal with

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The problem with health care hot potato is that if no one stops the game, the hot potato eventually gets passed to the country — and millions get burned.
As Vox's Ezra Klein explained: The problem with health care hot potato is that if no one stops the game, the hot potato eventually gets passed to the country — and millions get burned.
But tinkering with Article 9 remains a political hot potato.
For decades, climate change has been a political hot potato.
The bank's fate is a political hot potato in Italy.
" Everyone, he said, knew it was "a hot-potato case.
ABC, CBS and NBC dropped the story like a hot potato.
It's time for the Senate to deal with this hot potato.
Ruffles Flamin' Hot Potato Chips have ridges filled with spicy flavors.
It just became this hot potato that nobody wanted to touch.
More importantly, it turns Aramco stock into a political hot potato.
Michèle and Éric Virrion were serving burgers and hot potato chips.
"I went from a couch potato to a hot potato," Thomas says.
The exemption for yeshiva students has long been a political hot potato.
" The minimum wage, she continues, is "a perpetual hot potato among politicians.
The polling explains why healthcare is the hot potato of 28500 politics.
Pass the health care hot potato to the Senate, in other words.
Nobody wants to get burnt by being left holding that hot potato.
When that vote failed, the hot potato stayed in the Senate's hands.
Better still is passing off the strategic hot potato to the next administration.
Instead, it introduces this intriguing kernel, and drops it like a hot potato.
Dropped Fremont like a hot potato to protect their core base in Detroit.
So began M.L.B.'s version of hot potato, with Brice as the potato.
Stop playing hot potato with women's allegations, hoping it will all turn out okay.
The link to oil alone points to a highly inflammatory ongoing political hot potato.
"You're constantly trying to get tonight's hot potato off your lap," Mr. Samuelsen said.
The dynamic that's revived the AHCA is best described as health care hot potato.
But Apple effectively tossed executive leadership of the product around like a hot potato.
My patient and I were locked in a game of decision-making hot potato.
Once that happens, it's like a hot potato: The Senate can't not take them.
Whichever way the judges rule, this hot potato seems bound for the Supreme Court. 2.
I know when they'd have a toothache, they'd hold a hot potato near the mouth.
They want to get the political hot potato off their plate as soon as possible.
"The European Court of Justice has a hot potato on its hands," Mr. Countouris said.
Ganja has been a political hot potato for years, with politicians sidestepping questions about smoking.
But when the press started asking questions about this, Sondland dropped Trump like a hot potato.
They all join the hot potato fun, shifting into relationships as easy as atoms sharing electrons.
The Republican strategy toward health reform has been a game of hot potato from the start.
As investigations continue, Mr. Amri's case has become a political hot potato, both nationally and locally.
If nothing else, our quadrennial game of political hot potato can finally come to an end.
Reforming the debt-ridden state-run operator SNCF has long been a political hot potato in France.
Bachelor in Paradise is always a bit like relationship hot potato, but this season is especially frantic.
The Warriors embraced the high-speed, hot-potato formula and won the N.B.A. title the next spring.
Romeo Langford couldn't handle the hot potato ... and the ball went crashing right into some dude's beer!
Ever since it was acquired in 2014, Nest has been a hot potato within Alphabet, Google's parent company.
It&aposs then topped with cheddar, hot potato chips, and The Nook's secret peach Southern Comfort barbecue sauce.
He's buying into the hot potato type of mindset, where the open man gets the shot every time.
Basically, Lehman got caught holding the hot potato of subprime mortgage debt that other banks were selling off.
Mr. Puigdemont's fate has been a political hot potato in Spain at a time of major political change.
"When you don't think about operations end to end, it's like this hot potato that's thrown," she said.
This has proved a very hot potato for Zelensky who signed up to the formula in early October.
The yuan's weakness is a political hot potato for world's second-largest economy amid its trade dispute with Washington.
Recently, the NYC subway system's deterioration has become a national laughingstock, political hot potato, and maddening reality for riders.
Stop pretending that each of us can pass the hot potato off to someone else for our entire lives.
During his Wednesday address, Xi also broached the political hot potato of runaway real estate prices in the country.
When it comes to divorce, that limitation can turn the home, a prime marital asset, into a hot potato.
It had its struggles, too, including seven bankruptcies and a string of ownership changes resembling a game of hot potato.
Now you can: For strong stems, the 25-year-old star relies on toe circles, hot potato, pulses, and hydrants.
That's what a proposed pilot program for Medicare is trying to figure out and it's become a political hot potato.
"In Gesell's formulation, money became a 'hot potato' that note holders tried to use before it lost value," Mihm writes.
That's partly because the question of who should take responsibility for Camp Century has become such a political hot potato.
To avoid such a game of hot potato, there must be standards, and they must be more inclusive than not.
The reduction comes after the Chinese government steps since 2013 to reduce air pollution, a social and political hot potato.
But, once passed by the Senate, the House could have decided to pass that hot potato on to the president.
In a brutal game of hot potato, Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles took advantage with a 103-10 victory.
We saw this on health care, where the Senate didn't want to be the last ones holding the hot potato.
In many ways, this seems to be the latest round in the seemingly never-ending health care hot potato game.
This happens a lot in development; networks play hot potato with a pilot before it finally lands in the right spot.
Philly swarmed the left block with a wide-eyed Elton Brand, and the possession petered into a game of hot potato.
The issue has become a political hot potato between the conservatives and the left-wing Syriza, which favors keeping sanctuary intact.
To be clear, it's not a political hot potato for the Israeli government or Netanyahu if such an alliance becomes public.
Changes to the décor and other alterations can be a political hot potato as well as a source of national pride.
The mayor could only watch this international game of hot potato from his small second-floor office while the town grumbled.
"This is getting exhausting and this whole hot-potato thing is frustrating, but at the same time, I'm optimistic," she said.
It was the looming deadline that finally was going to force Congress to tackle the perennial political hot potato of immigration.
While the subject of that request was mildly controversial, it wasn't the political hot potato that the false missile alert represents.
Trading turns into a situation in which the hot potato is passed around from trader to trader, from bank to bank.
But he was paralyzed by his father's words: If you guys ever stop singing I will drop you like a hot potato.
The Revolutionary Guards' penetration of the economy assures that the issue of American businesses reentering Iran will remain a political hot potato.
For this reason, Paige throws the bling box back at Rainer like they're playing the world's most expensive game of Hot Potato.
Suge Knight got super scared recently ... scared enough to drop his lawsuit against Chris Brown like a hot potato ... TMZ has learned.
A group of immigrant activists and organizers, mostly young, mostly Latino, stands in a circle, playing a pass-the-hot-potato game.
"This has turned into a hot potato," said Ken Cramer, a school board member who supports extending equal protections to transgender students.
Curry did his usual warm-up routine on Monday, ending in a hot potato game of catch with a Warriors security man.
"I did my homework before I came here," Mr. Byford said, acknowledging that New York City's transit system was a hot potato.
They will drop Clinton like a hot potato — or, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
Taken together, Sommers's research reminds us why repealing or altering the law in a way that limits coverage is a political hot potato.
But playing hot potato with the web's ugliest URLs can only do so much to curb the resurgence of white supremacy in America.
Ms Kirkwood, a 32-year-old from east London, started her theatre career while at Edinburgh University with "Grady Hot Potato" in 2005.
But it's easy to see why an executive holding a hot potato might be tempted to pass it on to someone — anyone — else.
Mr Strange, who had been left holding the political hot potato of Mr McConnell's endorsement, can now soothe himself with the president's endorsement.
Paula Deen is an accomplished chef, so it's no surprise she knows how to handle a hot potato ... kneeling during the National Anthem.
Any reduction in housing allowances, which are enjoyed by 6.5 million people, is likely to be a political hot potato for the government.
But if the congressional and White House policies started the game of hot potato, it was monetary policies that turned up the heat.
This is becoming the year of the health care "hot potato," as various players in the market battle over who is the villain.
The infighting, Geragos said, is symbolic of this "political hot potato" case, where the lines between public opinion and due process are blurred.
The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act , commonly known as Obamacare, is like a game of hot potato right now.
It has become a game of political hot potato, with desperate Central Americans who are fleeing poverty and violence caught in the middle.
During a recent White House briefing, members of the Coronavirus Task Force played hot potato with a question about closures of childcare centers.
"I was tossed around like a hot potato," laughs Basco, whose role is, admittedly, to stay out of trouble during the mega battle.
" He said, in a later interview, that local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities had tossed the responsibility between themselves "like hot potato.
There's no denying that Mr. Lighthizer's boss is partly responsible for the free-trade hot potato, but seizing on that conflates the issues.
None of these bodies wants to touch this particularly hot potato and politicians have been too Brexit-obsessed to legislate on anything else.
That is a political hot potato in Austria, where a parliamentary election is scheduled in October with immigration shaping up as a central issue.
The case for statehood, formerly a political hot potato, was the key campaign issue both for Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez, a Republican, and Gov.
Our thought bubble: Companies may feel safer handing government the hot potato of figuring out where to draw lines around this potentially controversial technology.
The logic of playing health care hot potato is compelling, and you can even see how it could lead to the bill's eventual passage.
So when a political hot potato arrives on the chief justice's doorstep, we should expect him to do all he can to cool it down.
The issue of pollution has become a political hot potato that will be a major topic during China's upcoming annual parliament meeting, starting on Sunday.
After trading starts again at 5% down, the magnetic draw to 7% is almost irresistible; no one wants to be left holding the hot potato.
The people of Georgia's 3rd District sent me to Washington to get results, not to get caught up in a game of political hot potato.
The infighting, Geragos says, is symbolic of this "political hot potato" case, where the lines of public opinion and in-court litigation are getting blurred.
Like a game of hot potato, builders, homeowners, banks, flood insurers and buyers of securitized mortgages try to hand off risky properties before getting burned.
The inexorable price rise in the major cities has taken homes out of the reach of many first-time buyers and become a political hot potato.
Prior to Betaworks, Matt built the technology platform Trammell Crow Company (acquired by CBRE), joined Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook), and built ReferBoost (licensed to Apartments.com).
Amending the US law provided a way out, but the envoy said there is little appetite in Congress for the hot potato Trump had handed them.
The inexorable price rise in the major cities has put homes out of the reach of many first-time buyers and become a political hot potato.
The CFPB has become a political hot potato, with Republicans, including presumptive 2016 presidential nominee Donald Trump, questioning its role and vowing to undermine its authority.
The short is packed with fun little comparative moments, such as a hot potato skirmish between Pyro's detonator projectiles and Genji's quick deflections with his sword.
He told me he thought up the idea because he felt Turkey and China were in a game of "hot potato," each parrying the other's moves.
The protests became a political hot potato with President Trump even getting involved, and Kaepernick was not signed by another team for the 2016-2017 season.
Perhaps that's why the Republican senators decided to drop her like a hot potato when it came time to really confront Judge Kavanaugh about these allegations.
The upshot of this was that organizing work, rather than leading to progress toward a single-payer system, led to a game of political hot potato.
It's a star-studded game of Hot Potato, and it's a miracle no one falls asleep during all the designer name-dropping interviews and cutesy, forced banter.
V-Ball is like a mix between volleyball — punching a ball over a net to try to hit your opponent's floor — and hot potato — the ball explodes.
But it has proven a political hot potato, as President Donald Trump has imposed or threatened tariffs countries he says are "taking advantage" of the United States.
Their saga has become a diplomatic hot potato in Europe, where anti-immigrant sentiment and strained resources have butted up against migrants arriving by the thousands. 5.
In a self-conscious touch that ultimately proves scattered, his and many other pieces of narration hot-potato from actor to actor as they crisscross the stage.
Flynn's predicament presents another election year hot potato to Trump, as many have speculated that Flynn's change in strategy is a bid for a pardon from Trump.
The South China Sea has become a political hot potato between Washington and Beijing as China has built up military bases on disputed islands in the contested waters.
Hot potato: From "A," tap left toes to floor 3 inches in front of you, lift foot back to "A," then tap toes 3 inches behind you (C).
If the House tosses the hot potato to the Senate and it dies there, House members will have voted for a grossly unpopular bill for no particular reason.
Germany's constitutional court, unlike America's, does not make a habit of resolving political disputes, and may not take such a hot-potato case even if Bavaria files it.
Comey seized a role that was not his, violating procedure and policy, but he saw himself as removing the political hot potato of acquitting Clinton from Lynch's head.
The inexorable rise of prices in the major cities had put homes out of the reach of many first-time buyers and had become a political hot potato.
No, provide Desiigner with an object smaller and less massive than an actual panda and he will shout words into it and juggle it like a hot potato.
As the clock wound down on the next 10 days, the radar would then be switched to another plane, he said, in a dangerous game of hot potato.
"And one day — I hate to repeat it — but one day he said, 'If you guys ever stop singing I will drop you like a hot potato,' " Michael said.
The bottom line: Companies may feel safer handing government the hot potato of figuring out where to draw lines around potentially controversial technologies to help limit their own liabilities.
I don't see interest rates ramping up between now and the end of the year ... I think it's going to be a political hot potato for a little bit.
In other words, pushing back against massive job creation is a political hot potato a lot of conservatives and liberals, at least the smart ones, will want to avoid.
VICE News reports from the southern coast of Sicily — where 56,000 migrants have arrived this year to date — on how the migrant crisis has become a political hot potato.
High and rising prices for gas have become a political hot potato for the Liberal National government as businesses warned they could go bust if action was not taken.
Plans for a Vanity Fair-hosted party in his honor were dropped like a hot potato, but fact is, fashion has long — if not endorsed, certainly accepted, such abuse.
That deal was also a political hot potato, with then candidate Ross Perot famously claiming it would result in a "giant sucking sound" as U.S. jobs were sent to Mexico.
"The pound is being dropped like a hot potato, as the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit becomes increasingly plausible," wrote Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at London Capital Group.
It felt like a little bit of a hot potato out there tonight and we were waiting for a bounce, and I think we got the bounces on those goals.
On the other, Weiner had become a potential campaign liability, and he was treated as one: He got dumped like a hot potato before he could wreak any more havoc.
If there isn't clear proof of each transfer, it becomes impossible to tell who holds the hot potato, and therefore impossible to tell who has the legal right to foreclose.
The prevailing dynamic is that health care has become a political hot potato and House Republicans are eager to get it out of their hands and over to the Senate.
And as Vox's Jane Coaston notes, the NFL protests have also become a political hot potato, with the protests serving as one of President Trump's most favored culture war topics.
Shoring up regional defense capabilities are a priority as North Korea has re-emerged as a potential conflict hot potato, after having tested nuclear devices and missiles several times last year.
It seems that the pending AT&T–Time Warner merger continues to be a political hot potato, with different factions of government and industry continuing to argue over who'll review it.
I want to believe that the universe is one giant biosphere, tossing the same building blocks of life from planet to planet in a never-ending game of cosmic hot potato.
Additionally, a need to increase airport capacity in the south east of England has been a political hot potato for decades with subsequent governments reluctant to commit to a firm decision.
In short, the AHCA encourages the American people to try to pass the cost of their health care off onto someone else – like a game of hot potato or musical chairs.
On Thursday senators tackled the radioactive question of the nation's nuclear waste, this time with a new plan to circumvent the hot-potato politics that doomed Yucca Mountain and other proposals.
Throw in a few anti-Pakistan chants like Altaf Hussain (of the Muttahida Quami Movement) did late last month and you have a treasonous hot potato everybody wants to talk about.
Moreover, responsibility for Syria's chaos hardly seems a prize to be won; if Moscow and Tehran want to grab this hot potato, we might be wise to let them have it.
Federated identity is a concept that has been thrown around with controversy for quite some time, but gaining some momentum now that owning personal data is akin to a hot potato.
Democrats believe they not only hold the political high ground in the fight, but have also now put the policy hot potato back into the laps of the GOP, aides say.
A French conversation is rather like a round of hot potato: The object is not linear progression — in conversational terms, to transmit information — but to enjoy the game and build relationships.
The decision tosses the hot potato of government formation into the lap of Merkel, who needs to forge an awkward — and, at the federal level, unprecedented — coalition with the smallish Green Party.
Though it's difficult to sift through the reporting on where a secret bill stands, it's quite possible that the Senate GOP doesn't want to be left holding the health care hot potato.
The city itself depends on this game of hot potato, because the more condos that are built, the more essential are the property taxes to pay for all the flood-prevention infrastructure.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top electoral court has been handed a hot potato as it must decide whether the country's most popular politician can run in upcoming elections despite being jailed for corruption.
The practice started in 1991 in Pittsburgh as a game of ownership hot potato, when Sinclair sold its station there to an employee, Edwin Edwards, and retained ownership of a second station.
Doing so would mean tossing a hot potato — or a live grenade — out of Nadler's committee and into the full Democratic caucus (which contains 31 Democrats representing districts Trump won in 2016).
So they're making a pitch that senators should cast a somewhat symbolic vote to keep the effort alive a bit longer, and to pass the hot potato to the theoretical conference committee.
Bitter feuds over migration - which Morawiecki on Thursday called a political "hot potato" - have added to the growing isolation of the bloc's largest ex-communist country since PiS won elections in late 2015.
If you ask too many questions, such as "Why were you ignoring my messages?" the gaslighter will probably drop you like a hot potato, blame you, and even accuse you of being desperate.
Funding for the wall has become a hot potato issue on both sides of the aisle as a government shutdown looms at the end of the week unless a spending bill is passed.
The idea, then, was to hope that what the House did with the hot potato was ask for a conference committee with the Senate so that something entirely new could be dreamed up.
"It's the hot potato that nobody wants to touch," said Anna Caudill, the executive director of Post Adoption Learning Services, a Tennessee-based organization that advocated passage of the bill protecting disabled students.
" Next year, he says, Goliath's big game will be something called Dirty Diapers, which involves passing a baby around like a hot potato until it makes "something a little gross or really gross.
Mr. Armisen, meanwhile, performed comically lousy renditions of Hanukkah tunes; gave unwelcome sex advice, as Queen Elizabeth II, to Kate Middleton; and played hot potato with the decapitated head of a prep schoolboy.
While politicians like to use the future of the Arctic as a political hot potato, the truth is that the Arctic can and should be a key component of America's comprehensive energy plan.
The sole exception is John McCain supporting cap-and-trade during the 2008 election — an obviously defensive move that everyone in the party dropped like a hot potato the second Barack Obama won.
He wants to drop this like a hot potato… 'Failing' is his best option, because the impacts of this bill on the lives and well-being of millions of Americans would be devastating.
It also imposed a heavy cost on still fragile banks, turning deposits into a hot potato that many would rather avoid so as not to pay charges to their central bank for storing them.
We know that buying bonds with a negative yield or anything close to zero is just a game of hot potato as these bonds are not assets of the buyers, they have become liabilities.
Deplatforming works, but it can be complicated, so here's a quick explanation of what these pieces are and why we're witnessing this hot-potato act in the wake of the latest tragic mass shootings.
If those judges rule against the travel ban, as seems likely, the consensus of the lower courts could give the Supreme Court an excuse to turn away the hot potato being sent its way.
But the world's largest exporter of coal, and second-biggest of LNG, is discovering that export success can quickly become a politically-charged hot potato when it is linked to rising costs for local consumers.
Calling the issue a "political hot potato," Pal said Germany has set itself up so that taxpayers are protected from having to fund bailouts, enacting a bail-in mechanism that Deutsche Bank simply cannot handle.
It has also imposed a heavy cost on still fragile banks, turning deposits into a hot potato that many would rather avoid so as not to pay charges to their central bank for storing them.
I've eaten just one quick dinner at Badshah so far, and while I was content with the Kashmiri-style goat curry, I was less thrilled by the refrigerator-cold sauces spooned over hot potato croquettes.
But in taking a position on the idea of toxic masculinity, Gillette and Procter & Gamble could be dealing with a "hot potato," said Dean Crutchfield, the chief executive of the brand advisory firm Crutchfield & Partners.
Part of Electronic Arts' abandoned EA Partners program, where the company collaborated with outside developers, EA dropped it like a hot potato—or, say, a hot skull—doing little to ensure anyone knew it existed.
"I realize that with this problem (of migration), a government has a hot potato in its hands, but it must be resolved differently, humanely, not with razor wire," the Argentine-born pope said on the plane.
"I realize that with this problem (of migration), a government has a hot potato in its hands, but it must be resolved differently, humanely, not with razor wire," the Argentine-born pope said on the plane.
These things are strongly condemned at every occasion possible, and sometimes, as with the hot-potato hosting of StormFront, there is even the chance to show off a company's dedication to the concept at small cost.
Over the past week, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, and Google — to name a few — have been playing hot potato with the major neo-Nazi news site Daily Stormer, taking it offline several times as it's moved around the internet.
Alex Wolf, senior emerging markets economist at British fund firm Standard Life Investments, says the main implication of Wong's report is that the current account surplus is larger than implied by official statistics — a hot potato politically.
"Because it filed for Chapter 11 just weeks after the tragic Parkland shooting, Remington became the hot potato that many investors did not want to touch," restructuring attorney Vincent Indelicato of Proskauer Rose said in an email.
But reporting articles of impeachment would be tossing a hot potato — or a live grenade — out of his liberal-dominated committee and into the full Democratic caucus (which contains 31 Democrats representing districts Trump won in 2016).
The election of Catalan separatist politicians to the European Parliament has turned into a political hot potato for the European Union, which has been under pressure to clarify how tightly its members are bound by European law.
On DACA and other important issues that fall squarely in its lap, Congress has shamefully passed off the political hot potato (most prominently to Special Counsel Robert Mueller) rather than seize its constitutional ship at the helm.
Health care became a legislative hot potato that House Republicans are now determined to pass to the Senate as soon as possible, completely ignoring the fact that the bill does the opposite of what they are promising.
The House will pass a bill with what amounts to a blank spot, and then members can say they repealed Obamacare and toss the hot potato of working out the details to their colleagues in the Senate.
But immigration has become a political hot potato as the ruling centre-right coalition government and the opposition Labor party start campaigning for the New South Wales state election due next March followed by national elections in May.
If Shevchenko wins, does it announce a new round of the chaos we saw in late 2015 and early 2016, where the belt gets passed around like a hot potato and the champion's name changes every few weeks?
While increased demand may help China's own coal production, it will also pressure Beijing to find other sources of thermal heating as the country strives to clean up air pollution, which has become a social and political hot potato.
One high-ranking law enforcement source tells TMZ, the investigation is now a hot potato in the wake of Nipsy's murder, because the City has hailed him as a hero and someone who was trying to prevent gang violence.
And, while these two candidates are tossing around the temperament issue like a hot potato, any good presidential historian will tell you that almost every president, starting with George Washington himself, has been known to have a fiery temper.
This unstable game of hot potato, in which memes get thrown back and forth between subcultures and the broader public and back to niche communities and back out — often changing their meaning along the way — isn't new, Kim argues.
Archaeologist and criminologist Donna Yates — who notes on Trafficking Culture that Coe had organized the 1971 exhibition and later called the lent codex a "real hot potato" — firmly believes that the manuscript's problematic provenance will always be an issue.
Between the White House and congressional Republicans, a verbal game of hot potato seemed to be taking place, with neither side wanting to assume primary responsibility for drafting a GOP replacement for the ten-year-old health-care law.
But the task of releasing them publicly remains a political hot-potato between Washington and Silicon Valley, although details about the content of some of the ads has been reported by CNN, The Washington Post and other media outlets.
Since 2011, only 85033 district educators have been disciplined as a result, and the case was a "hot potato" that traveled from the State Education Department to the understaffed State Inspector General before landing with the Attorney General's Office.
The man with the finest record in the heavyweight division slumped face first into the mat at 2:47 of the opening round and the heavyweight belt changed hands once again, part of a continuous game of hot potato.
The plan, however, is to do just the opposite and attempt to rush through a do-or-die vote this week, in the hopes of basically tossing the hot potato to the Senate and letting them figure it out.
In effect, Trump is simply tossing congressional Republicans a hot potato — telling them that he is disavowing responsibility for any of the trade-offs inherent in governing, and that the responsibility is all on them to work things out.
But it's hard not to extend the Governor's felicitous phrase to the whole regional transportation mess, not least the crumbling, overcrowded subway system in the five boroughs and the political game of hot potato that has doomed it to accelerating decay.
The storyline we'll hear in the emotional aftermath of this election is that Democrats lost four straight special elections, despite months of a Republican president being mired in scandal and a Republican Congress playing hot potato with an unpopular health bill.
House Democrats showcased their selection of impeachment prosecutors and the ritualistic delivery of the articles of impeachment across the Rotunda while Senate Republicans treated the matter like a hot potato, appearing in no hurry to take possession of the charges.
Since British voted to leave in 2016, 2 PMs have resigned, Brexit is like a "hot potato", delivered from Cameron to Theresa May, then to Boris Johnson, now Brexit is at countdown stage, but its prospect is still not clear.
Obamacare orphans with a microphone and a camera in front of them are a legitimate emotional and political hot potato the likes of which the nation hasn't seen since the vivid images of African Americans fighting for Civil Rights in the 1960s.
Now, it's planning its next hot-potato exhibition: "Home Land Security," a group show on the human costs of war and nationalism, to take place in deactivated military structures in the Presidio national park near the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.
It's just a game of hot potato at this point, and games of hot potatoes can go on for a long time, and lots of people can pump a lot of money into it and it might go on for even decades.
That quarterly ritual quickly became a political hot potato for the White House, with President Donald Trump chafing at a requirement that ran directly counter to his campaign denunciations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the deal is formally known.
No doubt, base closings are a politically unpopular idea for members of Congress, with some analysts likening it to a "hot potato" because of the general uneasiness of lawmakers to support something could result in job losses and economic hardship back home.
Even the props are well cast: when Fleabag steals a gold statue of a headless woman, the statue transforms into a symbol of something—power, weakness, creativity, money, family secrets, you name it—and gets passed hand to hand, a lubricious hot potato.
The absence of regulation, in other words, is always a permissible form of discretion and deference, whereas its presence is always suspect — with the question of who is supposed to defer to whom tossing like a hot potato according to the nature of the case.
McConnell had failed to craft a workable bill, so in an attempt to avoid being blamed for the collapse of his party's Obamacare repeal effort, he asked his senators to support an unworkable bill, to pass the health care hot potato one more time.
More importantly, it ends with Ethan and Nyah enjoying a romantic walk in the park, clearly in the beginning stages of a relationship that the franchise dropped like a hot potato in favor of getting Ethan engaged to his future wife in Mission: Impossible III.
Whatever the figure may be, China's defense spending is closely watched — it's one way to glean some insight into the country's strategic intentions, especially as tensions have flared over regional territorial disputes and neighboring North Korea has makes headlines as a nuclear hot potato.
This week, in this six-month game of hot potato over immigration policy, the United States Supreme Court ruled that grandparents and other close relatives of United States residents should be exempt from the Trump administration's temporary ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries.
If GOP leadership invents a face-saving way to vote "yes," like promising that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will use some unspecified regulatory authority to make sure nothing bad ever happens to anyone, perhaps the Senate will pass the hot potato, too.
Read more: 'It is this phenomenal game of hot potato': Marketers are poring over legal documents to make sure they don't screw up using data on FacebookForrester Research's Pattisall made the point that all the holding companies would end up using data from the same sources.
I suspect that a book like this— a hot potato, a splash of cold water, a lightening rod, a call to "wokeness"— will become an important sign post from this era, a future time capsule that you don't have to wait to open and learn from.
There is one area of agreement between the groups on the right like FAIR and NumbersUSA and advocates on the left who say ending temporary protected status for El Salvador would be an unnecessary and cruel move -- Nielsen's decision will toss a political hot potato to Congress.
Now, however, the halftime follies have become something of a hot potato -- riven by political polarization, past controversies and newer ones, including the league's stance toward quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose decision to kneel during the National Anthem has effectively ended -- at least for now -- his gridiron career.
Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Jennifer Rokal, the executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News that the memo was a "political hot potato" that Zinke tried to toss at the White House, and would likely lead to a lawsuit.
"The decision of the IOC to not take matters into their own hands but pass on the hot potato to International Federations shows a lack of will to back the core principles of their organisation with hard decisions," said Drug Free Sport New Zealand chief executive Graeme Steel.
"The decision of the IOC to not take matters into their own hands but pass on the hot potato to International Federations shows a lack of will to back the core principles of their organization with hard decisions," said Drug Free Sport New Zealand chief executive Graeme Steel.
Since then, Salvini, who is also interior minister, has become the more prominent of the two men, taking a hard stance on immigration, a political hot potato in Italy as the country that has seen a large influx of migrants from mainly Africa, and his party has risen in opinion polls.
Facebook does not appear to be running these ads in U.K. newspapers with the largest readerships, such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, which suggests the exercise is mostly a PR drive by the company to try to be seen to be taking some very public steps to fight the fake news political hot potato.
The sheer quantity of footage that needs to be shot for a TV show, often on tight turnarounds and smaller budgets, means that series are typically passed like a hot potato from director to director while the cast, crew and showrunner — who is often the writer-creator — attend to larger questions of continuity, plot, tone and style.
There was even at least a bit of breathless speculation that it could be a campaign issue in the upcoming midterms: As it happens, Trump is due to speak at a rally for a Republican Senate candidate in Tennessee on Tuesday, and if he weighs in it could make this a political hot potato a la the kneeling NFL players.
But in reality, those solutions resemble a game of hot potato, with migrants being pushed from place to place, every step taking them further from their goal of legally finding asylum in the U.S. For Paulina, who fled Venezuela with her husband and two boys, 13 and 5, that means only leaving her shelter in Nuevo Laredo when absolutely necessary.
Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.), another regular Trump critic who's retiring in early January, said he didn't want to touch that hot potato, at least not yet.
The administration has been sending strong hints that for the special relationship to come to fruition in the Trump era, Britain should more closely hew to the US line on key world issues such as Iran and China and ought to leave the EU. Given the UK's political uncertainty, and Trump's unpopularity here, which has made the long-delayed visit a political hot potato for May, one key question is why is the state visit happening at all right now.
As it happens, Ramos is a spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the claps seemed to be a sarcastic dig at the Mayor's regular hot-potato opponent, Governor Cuomo, who, as the state's chief executive, is notionally the overlord of the M.T.A. Nonetheless, citizens, among them the transit blogger Benjamin Kabak, quickly took Ramos to task for de Blasio's reticence on transportation matters and his indifference to the concerned public's favored mitigations, such as bus lanes, bike lanes, and congestion pricing.

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