(n.) The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
(n.) A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(5) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(6) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(7) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
(8) However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
(9) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
(10) Catheters containing 0% and 10% heparin were compared in each individual using ultrasound microflow velocimetry, permeability test, sequential determinations of activated partial thromboplastin time, heparin levels and generation of Fibrinopeptide A, beta thromboglobulin and Platelet factor 4.
(11) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(12) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(13) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
(14) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(15) Three angiographic observations showing partial mesenteric vascularisation of renal tumours were made.
(16) The animals remained on partial venovenous bypass until the termination of the experiment 96 h after injury.
(17) During the treatment phase we found a complete relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), a partial relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), and some relief of symptoms in 12 (54%) in group 2.
(18) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
(19) were partially blocked by bicuculline (30 microM), partially blocked by a combination of 6-cyano-2,3-dihydroxy-7-nitroquinoxaline (CNQX, 10 microM) and DL-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV, 30 microM) and completely blocked when all three antagonists were applied together.
(20) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
Partisanship
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(2) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, seized on Abbott’s comments on Sunday, saying the Turnbull government should now support a Senate inquiry into the detention of people in Nauru, after allegations of abuse and self-harm in incident reports leaked to Guardian Australia last week.
(3) Clegg’s team is as irritated by aggressive partisanship in the Conservative press as Miliband’s is, although no more surprised by it.
(4) Ethnic minorities in Britain share roughly similar levels of partisanship – identification with a political party – to the white population.
(5) While it is "an honour to be asked" to moderate the debate, Schieffer lamented the partisanship in American politics in an interview with Florida's Palm Beach Post over the weekend.
(6) A quest for the full truth, rather than knee-jerk partisanship, must be our guide if we are going to rebuild civic trust and health.” Rubio could not provide a deadline for the investigation.
(7) Their opposition to change wasn't based on principle or belief, but sheer partisanship and narrow party interest."
(8) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” Menadue said the defeat of the Malaysia transfer arrangement had been “a tragedy, because that has given us Nauru and Manus Island”.
(9) Of course you must avoid political partisanship, but that should not stop you speaking out on matters affecting the public service profession, and they are many and wide.
(10) "The American people deserve to know what actions will be taken to ensure those who made these policy decisions at the IRS are being held fully accountable and more importantly what is being done to ensure that this kind of raw partisanship is fully eliminated from these critically important non-partisan government functions," they said.
(11) The domestic partisanship was only a brief foray in the speech, but the prime minister in essence blamed Labor for undoing the good work of the Howard government in returning the commonwealth budget to surplus.
(12) Partisanship and "yes men" are not a healthy way to run a department, let alone influence the values and methods that are remodelling teaching and fashioning our children's futures.
(13) Yet Price’s voting history places partisanship above patient wellbeing.
(14) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(15) But a crucial shift is surely the trend towards deeper and more bitter partisanship.
(16) Partisanship, therefore, cannot be said to have played a part in its disastrous implementation .
(17) News channels feed partisanship and the echochamber This is particularly true in the US – where TV is unregulated - and a consequence of the undeniable success of Fox News.
(18) He added: "For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today.
(19) And yet in a reborn two-party system, raucous partisanship is mostly what we would get.
(20) At the recent election, several of the micro-parties elected to the Senate represent extreme right-wing ideals, stirred up by hyper-partisanship – most notably, Abbott's call for a "people's revolt" against the carbon tax.