(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.
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.