What's the difference between guerilla and partisan?

Guerilla


Definition:

  • (a.) See Guerrilla.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Welcome to Calabria #gestapo#ss#army#military#guerilla#warrior.” “It was not my intention to offend anyone,” he inevitably added later.
  • (2) Justice Department representatives told one congressional aide that Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto was being used to establish "malicious intent" to illegally download large amounts of documents.
  • (3) • Cables from the US ambassador in Kenya sent in 2008 show that the Bush administration was consulted regularly over Nairobi's arming of the Sudanese guerillas, the SPLA .
  • (4) There has been little public debate on how the legislative programme would work, without imposing a huge load on the Commons timetable for years, and reports last week suggested that pro-European MPs in the Commons might, in the event of a Brexit vote, seek to run a “guerilla campaign” to minimise the number of EU laws from which the UK would withdraw.
  • (5) In the United States, in 1999, a woman known to her friends and neighbours as Sara Jane Olson living with her family in Minnesota, suddenly found herself arrested for being a member nearly 30 years earlier of the urban guerilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army – the crew that kidnapped Patty Hearst.
  • (6) Neutralise the opposition Lobbyists see their battles with opposition activists as "guerilla warfare".
  • (7) The Bitcoin network is structured like a guerilla movement: it is decentralised, controlled by its users rather than governments.
  • (8) There were still many problems, not least the poverty affecting half the population, acute degrees of inequality, lingering guerilla conflicts, and a worrying number of kidnappings.
  • (9) It surely ruined several Valentine's Day plans, but for the few hundred people who somehow found themselves at the latest of Prince's London guerilla gigs, it was worth sacrificing the possible loss of a future spouse for something much more important.
  • (10) But the US government is suspicious that some of his donations, ostensibly for the rehabilitation of former guerilla fighters, may have found their way to the Tamil Tigers.
  • (11) The report quotes a source as saying the intention would be to avoid embroiling Lebanon in any military action taken by the Shia group, which has sent guerillas to fight alongside government forces in Syria.
  • (12) Senior generals have vowed their allegiance to him and have refused to salute Tsvangirai since he became prime minister in 2009, arguing he did not take part in the guerilla war that ended colonial rule and gave Mugabe power in 1980.
  • (13) The areas of Aleppo controlled by rebel forces The battle for the central city is symbolically important for the guerilla force, which now claims to be in effective control of more than 60% of Aleppo.
  • (14) Free Syria Army officials in southern Turkey say there are at least four groups not aligned to them who are fighting regime forces, a Libyan guerilla brigade among them, although the actual number is likely to be higher.
  • (15) Aleppo is now in virtual lockdown ahead of what is expected to be an imminent showdown between loyalist forces and opposition guerillas.
  • (16) Fighting continued in Syria's two biggest cities, with suburbs of Aleppo again seeing pitched battles between regime forces backed by heavy artillery in the west of the city and guerilla forces in the east.
  • (17) It is not to be confused with a guerilla war of national liberation.
  • (18) There are far fewer Yazidis on Mount Sinjar than previously feared,” Kirby said, crediting “the success of the humanitarian air drops, air strikes on [Isis] targets, the efforts of the Peshmerga [Kurdish guerillas] and the ability of thousands of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountain each night over the last several days”.
  • (19) Matorga Mission is in the Beira Corridor and is guarded by Zimbabwean soldiers as there are dangers of Renamo guerilla raids.
  • (20) Although some were Mau Mau guerillas, many were victims of collective punishment that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country.

Partisan


Definition:

  • (n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
  • (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  • (n.) Any member of such a corps.
  • (a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
  • (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
  • (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (2) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
  • (3) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
  • (4) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
  • (5) It would be much better for Israel to enjoy bi-partisan high level support."
  • (6) The RIBA is not only a deeply respected and non-partisan trade body it is also the voice of the architecture industry,” he said.
  • (7) "Governor let me in, I wanna be your friend, there'll be no partisan divisions," the Boss sang.
  • (8) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
  • (9) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (10) The reaction has been no different from the theories floated in Peter Schweizer’s book, with campaign officials pointing to the author’s background at conservative thinktanks to frame him as highly partisan.
  • (11) This is no time for partisan politics | Simon Jenkins Read more Downing Street has also hinted that the 1% cap on public sector pay increases could be lifted in the autumn budget, after a growing number of Tory MPs aired their concerns about the policy continuing.
  • (12) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
  • (13) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
  • (14) Another book, Unequal Democracy , by American political scientist Larry Bartels, goes a step further and shows how policy choices are shaped when the system is dominated by the partisan ideology of the wealthiest.
  • (15) He is neglecting his primary, non-partisan role as the guardian of the constitution.’’ The law also enforces delays of three to six months between the time a request for a ruling is made and a verdict, compared with two weeks at present.
  • (16) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
  • (17) Issues like tax reform stir up too many powerful lobbies, so "the only way of doing it is to take it out of a partisan fight between right and left, construct a platform of shared national purpose and make our system competitive in the new global economy."
  • (18) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
  • (19) Nor can it be defined as partisan or political activity."
  • (20) The first is a national democratic decision with generational implications for all of us; the second a partisan psychodrama.

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