Sentence examples for a partisan position from inspiring English sources

The resort to force is not a partisan position; it is a product of political failure.

Even Ireland's police association, the Garda Representative Association, has come out for Yes, the first time it has taken a partisan position on a referendum.

Many questioned the propriety of the state's chief election officer taking a partisan position in races, and Democrats unsuccessfully pushed legislation to prohibit the practice.

In a letter to the court, Guido Calabresi, a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, acknowledged that he had given the impression he was taking a partisan position, opposing President Bush's re-election.

I was further disappointed when Sister Jeanne abandoned her neutral role to take a partisan position based, I would argue, on limited contact, as she was diverted repeatedly by responsibilities related to the visit.

The intervention was historic – the first time Ireland's police force has taken a partisan position on a major political controversy to be put to the nation in a referendum.

What seems to have happened is that Mr. Obama's caution, his reluctance to stake out a clearly partisan position, led him to propose a relatively weak, incomplete health care plan.

But while Mr. Kaine was known as a bridge builder in Richmond, the State House has forced him into a more partisan position.

It is not a controversial or partisan position to state that our courts should be staffed.

And it should not be a controversial or partisan position to say that the Senate should be allowed to vote by year's end on whether to confirm the two dozen judicial nominees whose time would be better spent hearing cases rather than waiting out partisan senators.

The Obama campaign doesn't have all those factors working in its favor this year, and the Hoosier state will most likely revert to its default partisan position: a reliably red state in presidential elections.