| His parents first began to notice something was wrong when he was six months old after he badly blistered his fingers on a hot potato chip. |
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| If government decides that it's too much of a political hot potato to try to remove you from that land, that's their choice. |
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| Although Claire seemed comfortable enough to let the subject drop like a hot potato, the more he thought about it, the less well it sat with him. |
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| New Environment Minister Martin Cullen has this as one of his first major hot potato issues to deal with. |
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| But it was on the political hot potato of Scottish broadcasting that Mr Davies dropped the biggest bombshell of the night. |
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| The issue has become a political hot potato for Bloomberg, who faces a tough battle for re-election next year. |
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| It was a time when many of his old so-called friends had dropped him like a hot potato. |
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| So much so that the Liberal government no longer knows what to do with this hot potato. |
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| If you succeed in making your opponent feel that his opinion, should it prove true, will be distinctly prejudicial to his interest, he will let it drop like a hot potato. |
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| It is this potential which makes genetic research the ethical hot potato that it is. |
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| You will recall that the conclusions of the Senate report were quite controversial and left us with a hot potato in our hands. |
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| That is a hot potato, which everyone, including Parliament, has preferred to avoid. |
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| I could not leave here today without mentioning a few words on market access, the issue that has recently become the real political hot potato. |
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| Canada did not turn a blind eye to its lending institutions as they passed around bad debt like a hot potato. |
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| This was a hot potato that everybody wanted to pass on to the next person in the hope that they would not have to hold it for too long. |
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| According to Michael Steiner, UN representative for Kosovo, this city is like a hot potato which the Serbian leaders pass quickly on. |
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| But despite the fact that Edmonton is ground zero for important gains to gay rights in the province, gay pride is still a political hot potato around city hall. |
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| There are many who would circumvent the issue, duck and dive rather than handle the hot potato that the case has become during these last ten years. |
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| But because of this lack of judgment it is still a political hot potato a week later and his image as a schemer who will do anything for self-advancement has been reinforced. |
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| But the reality, that is, a proposed solution, was not offered to us, and remains a hot potato for the next presidency. |
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| In my speech I talked about the hot potato and passing the buck. |
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| Jesus' method was a universal game of hot potato. |
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| The government has a hot potato on its hands, as they say. |
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| However, this does not do much to solve the problem of an airport which is there but which is not being used, because the federal government made a mistake and decided to pass this hot potato on to the Quebec government. |
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| Of course, the government wants to get rid of a hot potato that has been passed back and forth for months, from the anterooms of politicians to law offices, from lobbyists' offices to the halls of government. |
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| The subject matter of this report is, as I am sure you realise, a real hot potato which has divided public opinion in numerous Member States of the European Union. |
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| So a very, very small change in the amount of tobacco consumption could generate a saving in lives five times as great as something that has become a huge political hot potato in Canada. |
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| As we have seen, this is an issue which we are all itching to get our hands on: safe and sustainable pensions, a truly hot potato which gets hotter rather than cooler the longer we leave it. |
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| Online content is also a political hot potato. |
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| All of them explicitely refused to touch that hot potato. |
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| In other words, nobody wants this hot potato, until such time as a magic formula has been discovered to save the European Constitution', be it revamped or otherwise. |
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| The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato. |
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| It offers an eclectic line-up featuring the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Icarus' Australian Adonises and the Hot Potato Jazz Syncopators. |
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