(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.
Tendentious
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Functions in the large intestine seem to be important for the effect of NT supplements, as NT supplements to the diet of intact animals tendentially had a positive effect on N, Ca and P balances, IRA animals, however, showed a contrary effect.
(2) Despite a tendential superiority of the pentoxifylline plus training group, there was no statistically significant difference between groups II and III.
(3) This lack of physical contact and encounter, encouraged at times by the disintegration of our cities, can lead to a numbing of conscience and to tendentious analyses which neglect parts of reality.
(4) The Kusta activation parameter indicated a tendentially stronger manifestation in the case of clomipramine.
(5) (A1-P)% of P (mean polyuria), were significantly different only in D3 as compared to N. Precisely, the LVP-effect to reduce Cc was blunted; moreover a LVP-effect to reduce renal sodium and chloride fractional excretions and a tendentiously enhanced LVP-effect to reduce water fractional excretion were observed.
(6) To persist with such a claim is a tendentious representation of the research on which it is based,” says the report, which quotes £12.8bn a year as a more plausible figure for the maximum regulatory savings from a potential Brexit.
(7) The time to reach the minimal residual gallbladder volume was only tendentiously prolonged in diabetics with autonomic cardiovascular dysfunction.
(8) From the outset he went on the offensive, striking a combative posture and attacking media coverage as biased, intrusive, and tendentious.
(9) The prime minister and his defenders have variously depicted the claims, and Israeli media's alleged obsession with Mrs Netanyahu, as "tendentious", "evil gossip" and misogynistic.
(10) Voltage clamp studies have suggested that this decrease in conductance occurs within a range of relatively negative membrane potentials and probably consists in the blocking of voltage-dependent, tendentially repolarizing ion channels (perhaps potassium).
(11) Asked what languages he understood, Mladic explained tendentiously he understood his mother tongue of Serbian, pointedly adding he understood Macedonian – essentially the same language.
(12) Transhepatic cholangioscopic monitoring of the healing process on the 15th, 20th, 30th and 40th day showed that while both types of anastomosis were equally secure, the extramucosal suture after excision of excess mucosa produced wider anastomoses and is therefore advisable in all cases of bilioenteric anastomosis (BEA) but especially when the biliary ways are narrow or tendentially thin-walled.
(13) There was a tendential (not statistically significant) decrease in cutaneous tocopherol, ubiquinol + ubiquinone 9 and ascorbic acid levels, either indicating direct photodestruction or consumption by reaction products of photooxidative stress.
(14) Critics warn that both programs sweep up substantial intelligence about Americans in a way that relies on tendentious interpretations of the law.
(15) The delay in the development of the language often found in twins is usually interpreted as being strictly connected with the twinning situation and on the assumption that a model of verbal, tendentially cryptophasic, communication would more easily exist between twins.
(16) Simple liner regression showed a negative correlation between insulin doses and fundus, a tendentially positive correlation between platelet adhesion and fundus.
(17) As expected in the hypothesis 97.6% of the sample showed M values below the norm, and 68.3% had Ban values higher than normal, whereas the conformity index was positive and tendentially positive in 65.9% of cases.
(18) On academies, free schools and the possibility of allowing for-profit providers to run schools (to which he has "no principled objection" and which he thinks will probably happen eventually), Bell sometimes uses almost exactly the words and phrases Gove uses, albeit without the tendentious political rhetoric.
(19) The specific radioactivity of DNA measured in several brain regions was tendentially lower in NL rats, but significance was achieved only in the cerebellum in the comparison between NL rats and C rats.
(20) The latest charges arising from his New York Times article, of “deliberate dissemination of false news and spreading tendentious rumours that undermine the prestige of the state”, could see any sentence extended further.