| The 13-party National Front, the rainbow coalition led by Abdullah, clearly took note of this and has been playing up the development card. |
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| The dishwasher's playing up, but it should be all right by the time we open. |
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| Paul Martin is keen to get the area back on track by playing up the positive. |
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| It was just my thigh playing up again and they want me to play again next week. |
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| Is anyone really interested in the vanity and vulgarity of a couple who make their living by playing up to the media? |
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| Pedestrianism had become hugely popular, and the newspapers of the day were enthusiastically playing up the challenge. |
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| It was chalked off for a marginal offside although that didn't stop him playing up to the away fans beside the goal with a celebration dance. |
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| My computer's been playing up a fair bit lately and this morning the screen just completely faded out. |
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| Insofar as basketball is concerned, if he is already playing up, teach him the game as you would the older players. |
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| He's also a mass of contradictions, desperately playing up to more successful ex-schoolmates and then verbally and physically assaulting them. |
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| The 18-year-old clearly loves playing up to the audience, as a performer she consistently hungers for attention. |
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| Despite being an ode to the cursed Maple Leafs, this song succeeds by playing up the superstition inherent in hockey. |
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| Istanbul is playing up its history as a crossroads of European civilisation and a bridge between Europe and Asia. |
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| The speed is fantastic and we didn't experience any problems even when playing up to eight tables at the same time. |
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| The hamstring wasn't too bad but my knee was playing up a little bit. |
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| In fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat. |
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| Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction? |
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| And since then, I mean another one is playing up a bit now but even so, you know, I mean I'm so much better than I was. |
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| Pairs of narrow French doors topped with transoms line one wall of the main room, offering easy access to the deck and playing up the room's dramatic vaulted ceiling. |
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| Several key players have not been playing up to their usual standards or are out injured. |
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| For instance, if you are playing up the Asian arts, you may want to theme your spa around Asian-styled treatments like bamboo body wraps and Asian forms of massage. |
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| Was opening your album with a song called Amen a way of playing up the provocative album title even further? |
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| However, they are simultaneously playing up military and security applications. |
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| The actual letters were altered to exaggerate the writers' symptoms, thus playing up the remedy's far-reaching, miraculous properties. |
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| There was nothing I could do but put a brave face on it and go after them, but now my rheumatics are playing up something rotten and my truss is all rusty. |
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| Fearful of a future without a supervisor to check nationalist excesses, parties have been playing up ethnic issues that had hitherto stayed in the background. |
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| He bound the entire play to his wrecked view of experience and had no qualms about playing up and down the vocal register – in the dark backward and abysm of time we did indeed plummet several throaty fathoms deep. |
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| And he's not shy of playing up to it, either. |
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| Capable of playing up to four simultaneous messages. |
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| If you prefer playing many tables at once, there is no problem playing up to eight games at the same time and you have the options to re-size the tables as you prefer. |
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| Arthritis playing up, gumbo for supper again. |
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| Government lawyers also tried to paint the plaintiffs' claim as superfluous by playing up on the widespread stereotype of the spoiled bureaucrats with fat pensions. |
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| This is to personalize the homeless, re-encompass them within an ordinary image without playing up their homelessness which is not of their essence. |
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| Tagg is often portrayed as a curmudgeon by Stateside hacks more used to glad-handers, and he seems to relish playing up to the preconceptions. |
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| Q EVERY time my boss goes away on holiday my line manager starts playing up. |
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| She always had a sweet smile on her face, not like the gigglers we have now, playing up to the cameras. |
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| That's why Bush's handlers downplayed the former while playing up the latter. |
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| It's me manbags, Dr Prodd, they're playing up something terrible. |
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| Playing up his sometimes spacey, Zen-like nature, he likes to compare himself to Ziggy, the befuddled comic-strip character who often stumbles into cosmic revelations. |
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