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Example sentences for: potshots

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The main Wall Street Journal "Politics and Policy" piece says that despite opening Republican potshots, there is likely to be agreement about the provisions dealing with child care, transportation, and tobacco taxes.
As the other candidates took potshots at the leader of the pack for (according to them) coddling China, wanting to federalize education policy, equivocating on abortion, and endangering Social Security with a huge tax cut, Bush ducked, smiled and declined to take the charges entirely seriously.
You take potshots at him in public as he did to you in private (you called him a dimwit).
Besides, taking potshots at Washington is often good local politics: Blaming a faraway caricature of the United States can deflect attention from shortcomings, or worse, closer to home.