What's the difference between partisan and sectator?

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.

Sectator


Definition:

  • (n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.

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