Clarke's performance poisoned the public hearings, leading to weeks of a partisan slugfest. |
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I wish they made these things able to withstand the hypocrisy of partisan politics. |
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And, here, far away from the partisan capital, the warm feelings are mutual. |
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Competition between two national political parties beginning in 1828 spurred the development of new, partisan newspapers. |
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If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish. |
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This is unbusinesslike behavior and you don't think you can trust people who are so partisan. |
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Loyalty to friends and hatred of enemies is part of what makes the political partisan who they are. |
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Thus an issue of great concern for national security has been made into a partisan affair. |
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I have the advantage of not being a professional politician and not depending on partisan interests. |
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You can't silence these people, but you can spin them for all but the most partisan mouth breathers. |
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The proudly partisan audience was unanimous in its choice of heroes and villains. |
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But are these online oracles providing balance, or bloviation, or just pushing a partisan agenda? |
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Both are unabashed liberals who became popular by being openly, even caustically partisan. |
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Sometimes I wonder how that would have gone if we'd been as bloodthirstily partisan then as we are now. |
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The blogosphere is about the most partisan and least independent voice this side of talk radio. |
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These days most of us don't want to get too involved in national politics because it seems to partisan and ugly. |
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Another aspect of the centralized Soviet leadership was the role of partisan warfare in defeating the blitzkrieg. |
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Either the man knows nothing of intelligence considerations or is brutally simplifying things in order to make a partisan point. |
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Then the media can tsk tsk and say that the whole problem is how negative and partisan politics have become. |
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Anyway, disaster mitigation is typically not an area where partisan divisions are relevant. |
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Nationalist activists were thus split over constitutional issues as well as partisan versus non-partisan political strategies. |
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Whoever has replaced them appears to be moving in a sexually partisan direction. |
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What I don't understand is why this tragic case should be an occasion for the partisan hatred which currently bedevils our public life. |
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A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in shock and sorrow. |
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Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause. |
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Can the second banana deliver a rousing partisan stump speech guaranteed to excite the party faithful? |
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To some in this small town, it's a tempest in a teapot that smacks of partisan politics. |
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Use of the first person, moreover, gives this book the tang of an in-house, partisan staff study rather than a dispassionate analysis. |
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Sure, partisan pundits spent the campaign season talking their own guy up, but that's a different matter. |
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What appears to be at issue is whether fostering critical thought is done in a partisan manner. |
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He is not partisan and dealt equally with the callousness of the Chechen fighters and that of the Russians. |
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I think my greatest disappointment was really the commissioners' behavior with regard to lowering themselves to partisan politics. |
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No one is so relentlessly partisan as to always be able to defend the left or the right, as the case may be. |
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In this age of partisan attacks and free-for-all political smearing, we've seen one low blow follow another after another. |
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When she comes to see me, I will advise her that partisan politics in a lobby group such as Federated Farmers is not a very good idea. |
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This provided ample opportunity for a partisan war, one which would grow to near-mythic proportions for Lithuanians and the Lithuanian diaspora. |
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The quality of the competition apart, what let things down was the abysmal and partisan television coverage. |
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The last partisan was struggling to his feet as an awe-struck Nikolai finally regained the wits to lift his rifle and shoot. |
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Yes, she settles a few grievances and directs some partisan zingers at old foes. |
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They are playing on foreign soil, are a long way from home and will be up against a very partisan crowd. |
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The partisan crowd was waiting silently in anticipation as religious zealots would for a messiah. |
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Despite the unanimous vote, the bill did not clear the U.S. Congress without some partisan sniping. |
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The Yeomen Warders, also known as the beefeaters, are armed with a haberd or pike known as a partisan. |
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At least two residents have approached The Tribune, alleging partisan behaviour. |
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This forecast is not a partisan argument, nor is it an office-pool snap judgment based on a hasty reading of state polls of varying reliability. |
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Hantman recalls that Bharara's fairness and impartiality impressed even the most partisan Republicans. |
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Pundits love to apportion blame for partisan hostility equally to both sides. |
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Even though Hackney sees Democrats benefitting, he says initiatives like his should not be viewed as partisan. |
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A bitterly partisan public discourse also developed in 18th-century England. |
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But speaking out against partisan excesses is hardly a formula for popularity, and the blowback can get personal. |
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The setting, of course, is designed to allow an air of candidness, away from the Capitol Hill cameras and partisan zingers. |
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A number of clearly partisan studies have suggested that cats are unfeeling and sociopathic. |
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It's sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, to see partisan Democrats and Republicans constantly accusing the other side of things that both sides are constantly guilty of. |
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Nostalgia about the World War II era has obscured the actualities of that period, with partisan and domestic politics not simply disappearing after Pearl Harbor. |
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John Avlon on why it's time for the common good to outweigh partisan concerns. |
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But let's put partisan spin aside and accept Christie's contrite denials of personal knowledge at face value. |
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From that remote outpost, they were to expand the partisan war in Burma by advising and supporting the Kachins in conducting guerrilla warfare behind Japanese lines. |
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Thomas Jefferson endured a vicious, partisan press, and Lincoln saw his Whig party splinter into anti-slavery Republicans and popular sovereignty Democrats. |
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Despite any partisan enmities, the two top politicos maintained a cordial relationship. |
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Within the committee, partisan bickering has degenerated to personal distrust. |
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And Lemann also bats away the complaint that the new media outlets that do exist are destructively partisan. |
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No amount of sweet-sounding oratory is going to disabuse him of his hard-driving partisan agenda. |
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Concentration on two quite different local societies yields important insights into the relations between partisan loyalties, landowning, rural social class, and ethnicity. |
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Created in an election year and evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, it could have ended in partisan deadlock. |
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But I fear that by crossing the Rubicon from political to partisan, the rock star has become a harder sell, easier to dismiss as a limousine liberal. |
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There can be no partisan application of laws, rules or policy. |
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Because I'm partisan, I'll feature the griping from the Democratic side of the aisle. |
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In June of last year, the most partisan court in the country, the Supreme Court, weighed in, gutting the Voting Rights Act. |
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Not that Bryk is a hard-core partisan seeking to reinvigorate the Democratic Party with some kind of 50-state strategy. |
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Elsewhere, outside cash may have served only to harden voters' partisan allegiances. |
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The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose. |
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But the predictable rush to the partisan ramparts leads to situational ethics rather than constructive action. |
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So ignore the hyperbole of the candidates and the hysteria of the partisan commentators. |
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It is a highly tendentious, obviously partisan and unreliable document. |
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The funeral has stirred up old divisions, and has been criticized by many as inappropriately partisan. |
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This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest. |
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They must do this without partisan bias, but with a stringent sense of enforcing and further defining the law. |
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The party militias are widely distrusted because of their partisan nature. |
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This is indeed regrettable, because politicians who act only in their own partisan, self-seeking interest are doing nothing other than letting their country down. |
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The voting patterns of Native Americans are often hard to quantify and in many places do not show a partisan tilt toward Democrats or Republicans. |
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I submit that a regular program of interaction would go miles in leaching partisan poison from the well in Washington. |
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The partisan French fans roar their support of Loeb whenever his name is mentioned and the stands are awash with Mexican waves and a carnival spirit. |
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They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness. |
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Even in a capital wracked by partisan fighting, this should be low-hanging fruit. |
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He produced a play about the Persian slaughter of the Milesians, a disaster that devastated the Athenians who were deeply partisan to the Milesian cause. |
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We need to put aside our partisan criticism and start helping him with some tough love. |
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It may be a trickier dance in a primary in which the most partisan Democrats are often the only ones who show up at the polls. |
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A minority of the body gets to block the potential will of a majority, and on a purely and unashamedly partisan basis. |
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And the failure to reckon with that question will make the injustice of paying dues for partisan speech look like a minor detail. |
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He's proven himself too shriekingly partisan to be trusted again. |
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And ultimately, you pursued a partisan political agenda rather than seek to unify the country and move us together. |
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They may have been pumped up by partisan interests, but they were not purchased. |
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They had partisan networks and netroots dedicated to their cause that could be deployed almost at will. |
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The differences between the two parties, he said, were not of a fundamental character, despite the partisan conflicts and mud-slinging of the campaign. |
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True conservatives no doubt will rationalize this away with thoughts of what they will do to the dreaded welfare state once the partisan realignment has been nailed down. |
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Chronic partisan bickering largely gave way to a rare moment of well-deserved self-congratulation. |
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This is looking more and more like a partisan hit by a demoted career staffer who happens to be promoting a book smack dab in the middle of the presidential election season. |
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Republican legislatures are overreaching with voting laws to try to gain partisan advantage. |
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The first meeting featured multiple speakers deeply rooted in a partisan agenda. |
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Both sides of the partisan divide have their little problem with purism. |
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Considering the deep red bent of the district, Perkins would have a strong partisan edge. |
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On the outskirts of the partisan mayhem, a smaller crowd gathered as a heavy-set man strode up to a podium in front of them. |
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Ron Mellor also sees Polybius as partisan who, out of loyalty to Scipio, vilified Scipio's opponents. |
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Both sides used partisan warfare but the Americans effectively suppressed Loyalist activity when British regulars were not in the area. |
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One of the first manuals of partisan tactics in the 18th century was The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment. |
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Nationalists regard the state forces as forces of occupation or partisan combatants in the conflict. |
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He attributes it, in part, to a growing partisan split among voters. |
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Also, conventions often exist that the upper house ought not to obstruct the business of government for frivolous or merely partisan reasons. |
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For example, in 1895, the sudden retirement of Arthur Peel came at a time when partisan feelings were running high. |
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The Basques were ravaged by the War of the Bands, bitter partisan wars between local ruling families. |
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Luther rejected Karlstadt's arguments and considered Zwingli primarily to be a partisan of Karlstadt. |
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Zwingli, the papal partisan, found himself in a difficult position and he decided to retreat to Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz. |
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To stand consistently by his criticisms of theories of race would have been to pull to pieces his partisan teachings, and this he would not do. |
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In the Late Middle Ages, the Basque Country was ravaged by the War of the Bands, bitter partisan wars between local ruling families. |
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Despite this seemingly obvious partisan style of writing, much of what is said can go under the radar, which is as Tacitus wanted things to be. |
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Even the mention of partisan politics has been unconvincingly forbidden. |
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Maximilian refused pleas that he depart, and fought against the growing partisan army of Juarez. |
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I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave. |
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Some of the steam in Washington rises from real issues, but a lot is the hot air of partisan politics. |
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After the defeat of Poland's armed forces, the Polish resistance established an Underground State and a partisan Home Army. |
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I want to insist on a fourth criterion of the genuine partisan, one that Jover Zamora has called his tellurian character. |
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Religious leaders should not allow their churches to be used as launching pads for partisan smear campaigns. |
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In some areas partisan kolkhozes raised crops and livestock to produce food. |
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Bush partisan as argued by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian published on 17 February. |
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Many Loyalists fought in partisan units, especially in the Southern theater. |
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Many commentators have also criticised the Labour Party's allegedly partisan attempt to alter the electoral system. |
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Cauchon owed his appointment to his partisan support of the English Crown, which financed the trial. |
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They see the state as a partisan instrument that primarily serves the interests of the upper class. |
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And lest you be deceived, primary elections are no partisan monopoly. |
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Its 37 members will be appointed before the 2017 Legislature convenes and will mostly reflect the partisan makeup of their appointers. |
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Bademer the Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause. |
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A single, large sheet of paper might have a written, usually partisan, account of an event. |
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The oldest surviving ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk, gives even less support to the picture of Robin Hood as a partisan of the true king. |
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Partisanship is an important impetus to turnout, with the highly partisan more likely to vote. |
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It views the events in Northumbria in the light of Wilfrid's reputation and from his point of view, and is highly partisan. |
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Carr that malapportionment claims are justiciable apply equally to the question of partisan gerrymandering. |
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Fruta podrida, which allegorizes Chile as a diabetic teen who rebels against a coercive medical establishment, is a furiously partisan book. |
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Consubstantiation through partisan appeals can be seen in the examples of Henry George and Jacob Riis. |
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Akin to the Speaker, they do not take part in partisan politics, and remain completely impartial in the House. |
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It was a rare moment of bipartisan unity in partisan Washington. |
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As the Lettrists declared back in the 1950s, the cultural heritage of mankind should be cut-up and used for partisan political purposes. |
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Bede was a partisan of Rome, regarding Gregory the Great, rather than Augustine, as the true apostle of the English. |
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Like everything in Washington these days, even the humble light bulb has become the subject of a partisan fight. |
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A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity. |
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The Moufflons took to the field before a partisan crowd with revenge on their minds after the Latvians ended their world record 24-game winning streak last year. |
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The Senate is a virtual hit zone for partisan drive-bys and muggings. |
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The head of government and the other ministers are appointed by the Prince upon the proposal and concurrence of parliament, thus reflecting the partisan balance of parliament. |
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More partisan districts remain invulnerable to swings of political mood. |
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Although the Axis victory was swift, bitter partisan warfare subsequently broke out against the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, which continued until the end of the war. |
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That partisan rhetoric may be heated, but it's not entirely off base. |
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Instead of galvanizing the apolitical truth squads of my fantasy world, weblogs became marvelous organizing tools for the most partisan citizens and groups. |
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Unlike the Lords Spiritual, they may be publicly partisan, aligning themselves with one or another of the political parties that dominate the House of Commons. |
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On 29 April 1945, New Zealand troops under Freyberg of the Eighth Army reached Venice and relieved the city and the mainland, which were already in partisan hands. |
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In political terms he is a partisan of his native Northumbria, amplifying its role in English history over and above that of Mercia, its great southern rival. |
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One man's Alpine horn is another man's tossing the caber, but the partisan support was by no means one-way traffic in Murray's favour among the packed crowd. |
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Individuals suspected of partisan activities were summarily shot. |
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Traditions that quite patently display these parenetic and partisan purposes behind their propagation must be considered as b elonging to a later layer. |
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By the middle of 1943 partisan resistance to the Germans and their allies had grown from the dimensions of a mere nuisance to those of a major factor in the general situation. |
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Marx Schoenberg and Morris Marks were partisan Republicans who sought their political fortunes in a parish where African Americans comprised the large majority of voters. |
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By overzealously guarding a wrong cause under the rubric of bilateralism, India inversely supported a partisan interest than being and becoming bipartisan. |
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He stressed the importance of keeping the army away from politics and partisan polarizations, as reflected in the experience of the Republic of South Africa. |
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