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How to use the word partisan in a Sentence? Page #14

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Turner is effectively making this a partisan election and trying to take advantage of the 2-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the city of Houston.

– Mark Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sylvester Turner is effectively making this a partisan election and trying to take advantage of the 2-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the city of Houston.

– Mark Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This has further heightened the need for the government of the day to rise above all partisan and sectarian considerations and reach out to all sections of the people to forge national unity and reconciliation.

– Muhammad Osman Farruk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So with the school paper, they’re school funded, they’re connected to all the students, they’re designed to be a representative of the whole student body, they’re supposed to be neutral, non-partisan, so for them to take a stand, side with one group on this issue, is not in the boundaries of what this paper should try to be accomplishing with their opinion section.

– Steven Glick Junior Steven Glick

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He's a hyper-fast moving type of guy, when he sits across from you and says,' I'm making a commitment and I'm asking you to make a commitment,' -- he's not benefiting from it financially or politically in any way -- I think that's a pretty powerful selling tool to have.' Keep the Promises This summer, Toby Neugebauer stepped back from day-to-day operations and was replaced primarily by David Barton, a Texas operative with deep ties to the nation's pastors. Tom Patrick, Tom Patrick, said Tom Patrick hadn't heard from Toby Neugebauer in months. Like David Barton, the three groups tied to the three anchor families all have religious tones. Keep the Promise III, backed solely by $ 15 million from Texas fracking giants Farris and Dan Wilks, is breaking through in digital organizing via Promise III Reigniting the Promise project, with a months-old Facebook page that has quickly earned more than 350,000 likes. Conservative Solutions Project is advised by Jon Francis, a Dan Wilks family member and the manager of their philanthropic giving, along with a coterie of anti-abortion activists from a group called Online for Life, who have no prior experience in partisan politics. Keep the Promise I, funded by Long Island billionaire Robert Mercer and helmed by Kellyanne Conway, a well-regarded GOP political operative, is focusing a $ 1 million radio campaign on Christian channels in Iowa, where Ted Cruz is increasingly polling well. The $ 11 million group is also diversifying its portfolio and hiring organizers in the states. Steve King, an Iowa political operative and son of powerful Rep. Steve King, is leading a growing field team in the Hawkeye State, and there are plans to staff up in South Carolina as well to supplement the official campaign field team -- which South Carolina's bumping into on the trail.

– Saul Anuzis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At this point, Republicans are trying to exploit the scandal to try to score partisan points and push an ideological agenda to privatize the VA, republicans are trying to suggest the only solution to the VA's problems is to privatize it, but Hillary Clinton will not apologize for insisting on doing the hard work to reform the VA, rather than ending it altogether.

– Brian Fallon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think we all know by now that's code for a partisan witch hunt. Haven't we seen enough of that yet?

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is alarming that partisan politics on the Hill is keeping our diplomats and diplomatic security service from getting the training they need to stay safe.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe that we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can, for the sake of the country, we have to work together.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe that we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can, it's mean-spirited, it's petty, and it's gone on for much too long. I don't believe, like some do, that it's naive to talk to Republicans. I don't think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition. They're not our enemies.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The mayor of San Antonio is a non-partisan elected office and Mayor Taylor is committed to remaining non-partisan in the upcoming presidential election, mayor Taylor will not be making an endorsement or supporting any candidate.

– Leslie Ann Garza

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it's pretty clear that whatever they might have thought they were doing they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the Republican National Committee.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Because I got to tell you, most of them were State Department people or they were Hillary Clinton's former aides, people that worked in their campaigns, speech writers. So when he talks about these 50 witnesses, we still have been zeroed in on Hillary Clinton and there is absolutely no doubt about that and it's very unfortunate. i think it's pretty clear that whatever they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the Republican National Committee with an overwhelming focus on trying to as, they admitted, down my poll numbers.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it's pretty clear that whatever they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the Republican National Committee with an overwhelming focus on trying to as, they admitted, down my poll numbers.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it's pretty clear that whatever they might've thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the Republican National Committee with an overwhelming focus on trying to -- as they admitted -- drive down my poll numbers, i've already testified about Benghazi. I testified to the best of my ability before the Senate and the House. I don't know that I have very much to add.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This Republican whistleblower's account from inside House Armed Services Committee may provide the most definitive proof to date that this taxpayer-funded investigation has been a partisan sham from the start.

– Secretary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This committee was set up, as they have admitted, for the purpose of making a partisan political issue out of the deaths of four Americans, i would never have done that.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She has decided to switch her voter registration. However, the issue of religious freedom in this case is not a partisan issue. It is neither Republican nor Democrat. It is an inalienable right and what makes America the land of liberty.

– Mat Staver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think he came here today and touched on some very, very important issues that a lot of people would prefer not to talk about. And that is the issue of poverty, the issue of environmental degradation, immigration, the death penalty, the need to do everything we can to create a peaceful world, and I think he did it in a very dignified, non-partisan type way.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The law is clear that Congress cannot try to settle garden variety disputes with the Executive Branch in the courts, this case is just another partisan attack -- this one, paid for by the taxpayers -- and we believe the courts will ultimately dismiss it.

– Jennifer Friedman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Regrettably here, it's become a partisan issue. Certain Republicans have said we can't afford to do this, this is really remarkable when you view this issue of paid leave through the global lens. The Republican Party is really out of step with conservative governments around the world.

– Thomas Perez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have been effusively praising Chuck Schumer; something I don't do often but in this instance he's doing the right thing and it is my hope and prayer that in the coming weeks we see more and more Democrats who make the decision to put the national security of the United States of America, to put standing with our friend and ally the nation of Israel, and to put the safety and security of millions of Americans above partisan loyalty to the Obama White House.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We can quibble about what [ emails ] should be re-classified when they go out to the public, but that’s dancing on the head of a pin, that’s partisan politics.

– Ellen Tauscher

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's an age where politicians don't actually say what they believe, they are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,'.

– John Rhys-Davies

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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