My take was that his new-found partisanship blotted the copybook of his former life. |
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Zero-sum budgets bring out the worst mix of balderdash and partisanship among politicians. |
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But from reading the documentation of this history, the impression is not one of fragmented partisanship or sectionalism. |
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The partisanship has even reduced their efficacy as a binding force of our nation. |
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Now I have made the point more than once that this column is strictly off limits for political partisanship. |
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The unabashed display of political partisanship certainly added some spice to an otherwise lackluster campaign. |
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You won't be able to support businesses that fund this kind of fraudulent and unbalanced partisanship. |
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But there's nothing like partisanship to rev up the faithful, so the president and friends are framing Republicans as tools of big business. |
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We are trying to change the tones in the state capitols and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. |
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Some will say that we've been experiencing an inexorable slide towards greater partisanship since then. |
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Typically, therefore, his videos are repudiated with a sober resolve, one that usually rises above partisanship. |
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Her encouragement of the decorative arts is exemplified by ardent partisanship on behalf of the Sevres pottery she established at Bellevue. |
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That was before the rise of shout TV and the hardening of partisanship and the growing attempts by each side to demonize the other. |
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It favors pragmatic solutions over political partisanship and centrist positions over extreme ideology. |
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But, like Logan, we need to put aside wedge politics, personal rancor and bitter partisanship to act on behalf of the nation. |
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The same cannot be said of immigration, where culture is behind politics and partisanship. |
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But it was too little too late, and in the end the partisanship of the chamber proved to be the source of its demise. |
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This would be the opposite of blind partisanship and polemical vitriol, but would still be a conflict, even a bitter one. |
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Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions. |
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Firstly, it leads to renewed partisanship in state administration, which contravenes the law on the public servants' statute. |
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The report proposed reforms to reduce partisanship in the giving of expert evidence. |
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Those are the good things that we often cheapen by pure partisanship but they are there nonetheless. |
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Mr. Speaker, I deliberately moved away from ad hominem attacks or snide comments regarding political partisanship and organization. |
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Today we hear about partisanship, scandal and politicizing a worldwide H1N1 crisis. |
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I would say that, regardless of party and partisanship, it's important that these two teams work together. |
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The debate to this date has too often had the flavour of vicious partisanship, with more than a sprinkle of intemperate comments. |
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An independent candidate could even be the next mayor of the city most synonymous with partisanship. |
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Several commentators have written off the entire midterms because of the volume of attacks and deepening partisanship. |
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Mr. Rove, you make these claims purely as conjecture without any facts, fanned by the emotions of your partisanship. |
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He would not stand for bias, political partisanship or manipulation. |
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This is in marked contrast to the fatalism you see in places like Russia and China, where partisanship is frowned upon. |
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But facts matter, and there's a major distinction between partisanship and hackery. |
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That he believes charm, soft words, candlelight, good wine, and stagey entrances will overpower ideas, ideology, and partisanship. |
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If we can put aisde the partisanship and the rancour, this package will deliver for kids, Garrett says. |
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The pursuit of human rights required individual and collective commitment, which must overcome partisanship and narrowly defined interests. |
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But on Friday, during the debate on the dreadful events in New York, the bear pit of partisanship was instantly transformed into a sounding board of sombre national unity. |
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I understand partisanship, but surely there has to be an element, a scintilla of responsibility in the way these arguments are put forward. |
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Extreme partisanship and uncivil political discourse is not the best way to accomplish anything in Washington. |
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But given the partisanship and intense provincialism of the Czech Republic, any president who bucks the system and is as cosmopolitan as Havel would face difficulties. |
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The one thing that irks me about a lot of this is that sometimes partisanship gets involved way too much. |
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But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable. |
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Actually, it is rank partisanship of the most unseemly kind. |
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Consensus has usually been achieved and partisanship has been minimized. |
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Paine returned to the United States in the early stages of the Second Great Awakening and a time of great political partisanship. |
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Critics had begun to think that his wit had been displaced by partisanship and propaganda. |
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Hence, STV may reduce the role of political parties in the electoral process and corresponding partisanship in the resulting government. |
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Throughout his political career, the Prime Minister has been known to resort to partisanship, to show contempt and to disregard democratic principles and the will of the people. |
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Perhaps a culture of excessive partisanship has trumped ethical values. |
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There was shoptalk, but politicking was avoided, a custom that proved useful during moments of peak partisanship on the Hill, such as Bill Clinton's impeachment or last year's health-care debate. |
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What does bother me is when there is partisanship and unfairness and underhandedness and obvious moves to manage the affairs of the committee that does not promote openness. |
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This is quite a change from the shortsightedness, the partisanship and the kind of intolerance shown by government members and also by the health workers lobby-because it is indeed a lobby. |
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I take comfort in the thought that, at least, the Bloc Québécois has done its part, working beyond mere partisanship and putting forward good ideas that would satisfy animal rights advocates. |
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Let me remind people that I was at a conference with Stephen Lewis a couple of months ago and he said the very thing that is keeping us back from acting on Darfur and divestment is partisanship. |
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Encouraging everybody he never fell prey to partisanship or war rhetoric, yet he was accused of defeatism and some of his priests were tried in court and sentenced. |
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to talk about their version of the much flaunted independence of the judiciary, as if there was no partisanship involved when they were in government. |
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But this is mostly an account of backroom deals, broken promises and bungling government not to mention bitter partisanship. The great and well-known irony of Obamacare is that it is based on a Republican idea. |
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This approach will ensure the integrity of the process, insulate it from partisanship and prevent any one Participating Jurisdiction from exercising undue influence. |
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The lack of partisanship continues even after the Speaker leaves the House of Commons. |
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The judiciary is ill-equipped to handle the number and complexity of the cases that are presented to it, and judges have demonstrated a high level of partisanship. |
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Disarmament will require trust, and this will be hard to achieve if national partisanship is the sole guiding principle in international politics. |
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To prevent that debate becoming bogged down in the routine partisanship of the House of Commons, we created the Independent Panel on Canada's Future in Afghanistan last October. |
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Simply put, the influence of partisanship on the clarity of a legislative message can be mitigated if the natural diversity of opinion is taken into account at the beginning of a legislative project. |
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Something more than ordinary partisanship is driving this switcheroo. |
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Well, guess what the cult of speed gives us, whatever our partisanship? |
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Abstract theories, vapid simplifications, and political partisanship increasingly becloud its basic significations and hinder its full expression. |
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