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Ms Pelosi, who was vilified by Republicans for her "San Francisco values" , pledged to work with Republicans in a "bi-partisan way" .

As the president continued his cross-country appeals on health care reform, partisan disagreements continued to echo on Capitol Hill.

"Our generation has been steeped in a very partisan political environment, " he said, terming the condition "post-partisanship. "

Whether Mr Alito's nomination is such a circumstance may now be the subject of a bitter partisan fight.

Michael Bloomberg, the post-partisan billionaire mayor of New York City, claims right now not to be interested in a presidential run.

The website argues that whereas it might have been critical of government policies, it has never indulged in "partisan" politics.

But taken as a whole, the roadmap appears to be a genuine attempt to be constructive. It is non-partisan, which helps.

Hillary was more upset about the partisan political nature of the House proceedings than I was.

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu told VOA she did not think it was a partisan political speech at all.

A partisan difference like this one is not a clash of "values, " with each side blind to the other and with no way to decide between them.

Mr. Obama may fear an investigation could inflame the kind of partisan divisions he has said he wants to avoid.

Partisan politics is often an obstruction to good government.

At first she was against Pen, and suspicious of him, she was his partisan now.

But the ecumenical tone of his lecture did not stop him making a partisan attack on the economic policies of Mr Cameron.

He said he is alarmed by the increasingly partisan tone to the debate in the United States over continued military operations in Iraq.

Even attending a convention can be seen as something of a political liability for politicians running against the partisan tide.

His father was a partisan, but not a communist; his grandfather on his mother's side was a fascist.

Partisan and ideological conflict is inherent in democratic political systems, of course, and governing is often a messy process.

Immigration may be another issue ready to outgrow existing partisan boundaries.

The partisan crowd cheered while I slipped out the side door, feeling eerily like an early Christian escaping from a lion's den.

Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan (see below).

But analyst Rothenberg says so far, Mr. Obama has been able to deflect some of the partisan criticism.

The fear was that she would use its huge mandate for partisan advantage.

Partisan and intra-party bickering at a time of national emergency has further battered politics' reputation.

Many conservatives expressed fear over the past week that the president's address would be used to push a partisan political agenda.

For the next year or two, the country's impatience with brainless partisan mud-slinging will be far more pronounced than usual.

After vowing to ease the partisan rhetoric in Washington, the president is turning up the heat.

The word can mean partisan and exclusive: a "full account, " when the axioms are in dispute, may be an instrument of party policy.

For two or three years they live the lives of partisan commanders and commissars; they wage battles, seize territories, etc.

And still another view holds that it was the highly partisan politics of Washington, D. C. , that prevented the needed capital infusion.

The partisan disguised himself as a peddler and got by the enemy sentry box.

He called those who did not, "a partisan minority determined to block change. "

They could only tell me that I would be a non-partisan in the video and listening as a student.

Democrats stood frequently to applaud what was a strongly partisan speech while, for the most part, Republicans sat in grim silence.

He said there is no partisan divide in Washington on the nature of the threat now emanating from that country.

The partisan Brazilian crowd disagreed with the ruling, and Reser said fans were throwing things and cursing him as he left the venue.

At least the US Senate can be partisan when it comes to sanctioning foreign countries.

In keeping with our academic nature, no religious, political, economic or partisan group influenced any of these processes.

Critics argued that it was illegal for a tax-exempt nonprofit organization to donate its services for partisan political purposes.

We spent a lot of time making the site look America-friendly, non-partisan and all that. But of course, we do get angry replies.

Bhutan News, a non-partisan blog, informed just days before the coronation that the "refugees are in a state of flux" .

At the same time news is becoming more opinionated, polarised and partisan, as it used to be in the knockabout days of pamphleteering.

Amedda's booming voice often called for order when the partisan nature of the Republic's government degenerated into pointless bickering.

Saying arms control treaties have not traditionally been a partisan issue in Congress, Mr.

Mr Bush (see article) had a simplistic tendency to see the world through ideological and partisan spectacles.

"This was a very difficult issue in years past, " he tells Obama. "It was somewhat partisan. "

Analysts say the final weeks of the campaign promise to be intense and filled with partisan attacks and negative television advertisements.

Argentina was playing for a partisan crowd and with a man advantage for 48 minutes.

We've got enough that we need to do that we don't need to get weighted down in the partisan politics.

But the vote illustrated again the partisan nature of American politics.

Since then, however, California has descended into a seemingly endless budget crisis and partisan gridlock.

Partisan fighters fought in secret against the enemy.

Palpatine saw the Republic crumbling about him, torn apart by partisan bickering and corruption.

But then when I got to the speech, and we heard this, it was extremely political, very partisan.

"This is not about partisan politics; this is about rising above that, helping America and reigniting our economy, " he said.

It would also put a Republican in the cabinet of a president who promised to bridge partisan divides.

Because the American people have worked too hard for too long to see everything they've built undone by partisan recklessness in Washington.

Mr Bush had a simplistic tendency to see the world through ideological and partisan spectacles.

Both Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi promised a new era of cooperation after years of partisan passion and gridlock .

The deep partisan divide that has torn America apart over the last eight years has largely taken humor off the table.

A human-rights lawyer, he had spent much of his career abroad, so was untainted by the country's partisan politics.

Mickey Edwards is a former Republican Representative from Oklahoma and a veteran of numerous partisan battles in Washington.

It is impartial and not-for-profit and is not tied to any political, partisan or national interests.

to put aside partisan posturing, end the gridlock, and do what's right for the American people.

Up to now, he added, only five of ten highly partisan DPP overseas representatives have resigned.

In this environment, the merest hint of a partisan decision could have been disastrous.

People want the president to represent all Americans, not a patchwork of states stitched together through partisan manipulation.

George W Bush's reign is now recognised, even by non-partisan American commentators, as a colossal failure.

With the outcome in doubt, bitter partisan and personal attacks raged, bearing a striking resemblance to those of the early Republic.

Like Roosevelt, Obama's presidency will begin after years of bitter partisan politics.

Nevertheless, the Blue Dogs are carving out a distinct role in a partisan era.

Mitchell Bean, director of the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency, argues that Michigan's revenue system is in desperate need of reform.

FACED with "a partisan knife fight" , explained Claire McCaskill, a Democratic senator from Missouri, the Senate balked.

He has repeatedly presented himself as a post-partisan problem-solver who wants to work with Republicans as well as Democrats.

As the partisan war escalated through the summer of 1942, it was soaking up an increasing number of German Army troops.

But they have no patience for the same old partisan gridlock that stands in the way of action while our economy continues to slide.

Places like El Salvador and Nicaragua generated daily headlines around the world and bitter partisan battles in Washington.

Many are to blame for the current situation. But we have no time for finger-pointing or partisan posturing.

Elena Kagan was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, two days after the Senate confirmed her appointment in a largely partisan vote.

Each of these events will provide an excuse to repeat all the partisan posturing of the past few months.

This has won him the endorsement of the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and other non-partisan bodies.

A writer of pamphlets OR other shORt wORks taking a partisan stand on an issue.

The arrival of a president's budget always sparks partisan political battles about spending priorities.

In this search the evidence found is always incomplete and scattered, it is also frequently partial or partisan (n. ).

The President is urging law makers and his words appeal of the partisan war pend and strike a deal.

The law, however, was enforced in a mean and partisan spirit against the Jeffersonian Republicans.

But partisan and pro-business interests . . . [are] using people's real passion in a way that protesters aren't meaning.

Mr. Romney once delivered partisan-tinged zingers about how President Obama takes inspiration from socialist Democrats in Europe.

Any prosecutions would also touch off years of partisan warfare.

Justices are expected to approach cases independently and to interpret the Constitution, not to consider partisan demands.

But President Obama touted the achievement as a much-needed departure from partisan divisions and encouraged that to continue.

The Senate hearing featured some partisan criticism of administration policy in Iraq, and some partisan support as well.

The package could quickly become the subject of partisan bickering in Congress -- a fate that Obama wants to avoid.

Such an outcome would likely take years and would also require major compromises from an increasingly partisan Congress.

What stands in the way is not economics but misconceptions about budget deficits that are exploited for partisan and ideological purposes.

In most nations, partisan nominations are controlled by the party organizations and their leaders.

partisan warfare always successful , as history testifies acts in direct contradiction of this rule.

This may seem surprising, since any significant event these days is treated as an occasion to seek partisan advantage.

Politicians, after all, are hardly strangers to the art of framing the public's choices and rigging its decisions for partisan ends.

In just two weeks, the elation of inauguration day has given way to a classic form of partisan hardball.

For most of the year, U. S. lawmakers follow political, and often partisan, imperatives when conducting the nation's business.

Republicans repudiated this approach for partisan reasons, at the price of intellectual consistency.

He dismissed the president's claims of a bi-partisan approach.

During the war, Orwell began contributing a "London Letter" to Partisan Review.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office produced its assessment of the Senate Finance Committee's health-care bill .

George Bush promised to put an end to the capital's rancid partisan divisions.

But weeks of acrimonious dealings may make it hard to narrow the partisan differences.

Federal efforts still face a formidable obstacle: the partisan slanging of the presidential election cycle.

I never thought that the mere fact of my election would usher in peace and harmony -- (laughter) -- and some post-partisan era.

The university could end up with no supervision of a strongly partisan body.

So the President's choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

Sarkozy also stressed the team formation process of the new cabinet does not exist "partisan. "

How could our Special Investigative Unit be so flagrantly partisan?

But again and again, a partisan minority in the Senate said "no, " and used procedural tactics to block a simple, up-or-down vote.

America's Founding Fathers nurtured a vibrant, fiercely partisan press with no licensing of newspapers or policing of content.

Senate leaders may try to bridge partisan divides by hampering or blocking amendments on divisive issues.

They have chosen to put partisan and ideological purity over the well-being of the people.

But we have to move ahead with courage and honesty, because our children's retirement security is more important than partisan politics.

They tried to pass a massive social and economic transformation on a too narrow partisan basis.

I never thought the mere fact of my election would usher in peace, harmony, and some post-partisan era.

However, at their best, leaders in democracies govern in ways that advance the higher national interest, not just partisan interests.

America also must stop its own partisan bickering and undertake one last round of fiscal stimulus.

This is the opposite of the problem in Europe, where the emergence of technocrats is supposed to make decision-making less partisan.

When the law is mixed with vicious partisan politics, as in this case, the results can be terrible.

But a cause of national celebration is also, inevitably, an excuse for partisan manoeuvring.

Whereas religions are usually partisan, Buddhism transcends all par- ties and factions. It is the teaching of wisdom.

PNHP is an independent, non-partisan, voluntary organization.

Mr Novak had nothing in common with the partisan water-carriers who pass themselves off as conservative "journalists" .

All the partisan groups of whatever political complexion immediately joined in the fighting.

He tried to slip the country but was hauled back by a partisan band.

THE Democrats' first big domestic reform, of health care, was criticised as unnecessary, distracting and partisan.

Are these areas capable of promoting bi-partisan partnership?

But the panel was itself divided along partisan lines, which could blunt the impact of its findings.

Instead, he clings to dubious, partisan policies (mortgage cram down, union check-off) that arouse fierce opposition.

Mr. Swan's office dismisses the racism charges as an attack from a political partisan.

"The speaker had to give a partisan voice that poisoned our conference, " said Republican leader John Boehner.

The other half is busily encouraging their politicians to engage in as much partisan jerkitude as possible.

The press of their day was highly opinionated, partisan, and filled with vicious personal attacks.

The commander of the partisan group awards a medal "For Bravery" to a young partisan. 1942.

Or he could appoint a transitional, non-partisan, "technical government" .

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says that far more people would have been out of work in an unstimulated America.

But the re-emergence of the usual partisan sound and fury obscures a much more interesting question.

What recommendations the president's bi-partisan "fiscal commission" will make regarding deficit reduction.

Politicians from both parties immediately sought ways to gain partisan advantage from the bipartisan event.

It is a rare reversal of partisan and ideological positions: Democrats fighting to sustain a tax cut and Republicans raising objections.

Only the foolish and the partisan have rejected (or embraced) any solutions categorically.

The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region .

"Partisan extremism has meant that the vast majority of Americans feel unrepresented, " argues Jim Cooper, a Blue Dog from Tennessee.

The GOP also opted against offering a formal televised response to the speech and has been wary in recent days of appearing overly partisan.

In these highly partisan times, GPS monitoring is a subject that has both conservatives and liberals worried.

Later she fled to the forests and joined the partisan group, consisting mainly of fugitive Soviet prisoners of war.

He urged Congress to avoid partisan actions that would make the bill less effective or slow its passage.

The Senate's health committee has passed a highly partisan bill, but the more important Finance Committee has yet to do so.

Non-partisan scorekeepers don't normally count such benefits, as they are too hard to quantify.

Hatred of Mr. Bush went well beyond the partisan broadsides typical of democratic politics.

But neither Mr Cameron nor Mr Clegg can easily announce policies that drip with the red blood of partisan conflict.

Moreover, the US is now experiencing a period of intense partisan polarization.

The AK leadership, especially Mr Erdogan, has proved highly partisan and intolerant of criticism.

This is why Republicans and Democrats will in the end set aside their partisan venom and temporarily extend the cuts at least through 2011.

The censure resolution was voted down by the committee, again on a partisan vote.

Congress could conceivably overcome its partisan divisions and pass an important bill this summer.

Called Proposition 14, it would amend the state constitution to make primaries open and non-partisan.

Yet, according to opinion polls, even those who say that they are independents normally have partisan leanings toward one party or another.

I'm non-partisan, I'm just going to report, as a journalist, what's going on.

No matter how great the win, there is no dignity in a fixed and partisan match.

With the stakes so high we simply cannot afford the same old gridlock and partisan posturing in Washington.

Mr Bush was the most partisan president in living memory.

Is there a partisan split on support for clean energy in the U. S. ?

Mr Obama, keen to avoid the partisan warfare that bogged down his two predecessors, has demurred.

The constitution would in that case leave the final vote to the (highly partisan) House of Representatives.

The civil-rights movement presaged a partisan sea-change in American politics.

That leaves the remaining tangle of dysfunction, the hyper-partisan legislature.

The governors are still tinkering in all sorts of ways, even as many national debates remain stuck in partisan gridlock.

Was this gesture really a sign of his readiness to end partisan politics in order to deal with the real problems that concern us all?

This bill we have before us makes our troops pawns in a partisan political battle.

It is, says Sam Reed, Washington's secretary of state, the state's long tradition of holding non-partisan primary elections.

Anger and frustration curdle in rival political camps, fed by a partisan press.

Once partisan reconciliation is used for this bill, it will be used for everything, now and forever. The Senate will be the House.

These are tricky matters, especially for a minority government in a rancorous and partisan parliament.

Yes, this coalition is structurally incapable of throwing around partisan red meat, says one.

Partisan interference so mars elections that no Western diplomat will call them "free and fair" .

Even in times of relative calm its Arabic-language coverage (the English channel is milder) of the conflict is relentless and partisan.

Nonetheless, the first big partisan row of the new administration has already begun.

Partisan rancour could paralyse action on taxes and lead to a dramatic fiscal tightening.

The House proposal has also been criticised by non-partisan outfits including the Mayo Clinic, a respected hospital chain.

The best and most likely case for Mr Obama is partisan sniping followed by passage.

We must put the integrity of the US fiscal system ahead of partisan political considerations.

Officers in Chiang Kai-shek's army were not entirely unaware of the perils of partisan warfare.

Nonetheless, the 1987 action set in motion a partisan battle that has grown in intensity over the years.

With the clock ticking, reports from Capitol Hill say the committee has been deadlocked on partisan lines.

Many non-partisan Thais had hoped that Pheu Thai would evolve into an issues-based party rather than remain a Thaksin fan-club. Fat chance.

But now the new partnership risks falling victim to partisan infighting in Washington.

Ming dynasty, political corruption, ideological differences and partisan strife, the people slack, bandits run.

This is what a judge does in two and a half minutes in front of a partisan audience.

The easy answer is to point to shortcomings in our confirmation process and to partisan polarization in Washington.

But two months ago leave, he is speeding car partisan's one, takes orders from cruel heartless drug dealer eldest child Henry.

In the ensuing years Canadian politics has become an unusually shrill, partisan and intransigent affair.

The press is nominally free, though highly partisan and often harassed by officials.

Both the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and economists on Wall Street expected a gap of about $370 billion.

And Congress will convene a bi-partisan deficit cutting commission that won't do much either.

Whether TOC is partisan or non-partisan is irrelevant; it is indubitably a participant in local politics.

Democrats were accused of fiddling with state law for partisan advantage.

You may say that economic policy shouldn't be affected by partisan considerations.

Yet a nakedly partisan trial would only deepen historical wounds, not salve them.

Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. II.

You call the former a "left-wing think-tank" although they call themselves non-partisan.

we see them less as partisan politicians than as national leaders. . . ?

As Fed chairman you should not make partisan incursions in areas outside your jurisdiction.

I'm not saying Krugman got the prize for his partisan advocacy.

Our other guest told us that her brother-in-law was even more a partisan of the "government-did-it" view than those I had listened to.

He was reluctant to plunge into the bitter partisan wrangle.

In accordance with comprehensive and general collection principles, the Library of Congress is isolated from everyday partisan politics.

The unification of China should be for the welfare of all its people and not be subject to partisan conflict. 3.

Partisan posturing, debt and financial gambling: no way to run the world's eighth-largest economy.

On Saturday, April 28th American women will join together in non-partisan unity and shout, "Enough is enough! "

It then presents the partisan contests in three sections, one for each party.

"That doesn't mean introducing a partisan agenda, 'conservatives think war is ok and liberals don't, '" he says.

A special moment for Jurgen Melzer -- the chance to secure his first career victory on home soil in front of a partisan crowd.

Others says the fault lies with partisan politics in Washington.

But he is acknowledging continued partisan gridlock in Congress.

This section isn't partisan, it takes no positions, it just states how things are.

Nothing can disguise the partisan virulence.

There is also a structural difficulty: national governments still inhabit worlds of partisan party politics.

The cultural divide was partly, but not completely, partisan and generational.

But the partisan split means the nation won't get anything of the sort.

And at times, Ted was the target of partisan campaign attacks.

Reframing the argument around achievement wouldn't end partisan division.

It is a dilemma that goes beyond partisan politics and journalistic ethics.

It was shown that voters among three generations had stable partisan affiliation toward the KMT in 1992, 1995, and 1998.

The portrait of a 15-year-old partisan and scout, Misha Petrov, with the captured German 9-mm submachinegun MP-38.

Though he campaigned as a centrist and promised an era of post-partisan government, that's not how he has behaved.

The non-profit, non-partisan group said that globalization, increasing drug resistance, and climate change are some of the reasons.

Each side blamed the other for playing partisan politics.

That does not make them wrong; it just means they are partisan.

Monday, the convention was stripped of all major partisan speeches.

There's still a sharp partisan divide on this.

This country is a big jail, with an ideological fence. A partisan fence.

The Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan watchdog, says this "should position the [Census Bureau] to address the undercount" .

Congressional Republicans say there is little progress in resolving the partisan stalemate over how to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff. "

There is no shortage of partisan rhetoric.

Mr Obama's more partisan tone reflects several things.

And it will blur the existing partisan divide on the issue between conservatives and liberals.

He's a liberal, but not a screechy partisan. Indeed, he seems obsessively eager to find common ground with conservatives.

The partisan fastened the parcel to the basket.

The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body, reported that the deal would cut federal spending by $2. 1tn over 10 years.

If you believe this dribble you are a partisan toad.

It is a partisan attack falsely labelled as objective news.

You're fed up with partisan politics and want results.

A partisan caretaker government is the result.

he also advocated a highly partisan agenda.