Mr. Obama rejected the suggestion that he had been constrained in taking on Mrs. Clinton more forcefully because of his promise, at the start of the campaign, to avoid the bitter partisanship of past campaigns.
Most important, both men aspire (not always successfully) to avoid the hyper-partisanship of the Clinton-Bush era.
Somehow, "The Daily Show," a speeding bus without a single conservative on board, manages to avoid the air of partisanship it deserves.
But the latest wave of right-wing activism has still forced the hands of large Silicon Valley companies, many of which have tried to avoid the appearance of partisanship even as they promote progressive values.
WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans begin the process of staffing and defining the scope of a select committee to investigate the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, party leaders are trying their best to avoid the appearance of partisanship.
The purpose is to avoid the appearance of political partisanship by the agency or any postmaster.
But in principle it sounds like this is a space within which one could avoid the kinds of irresponsible, electioneering partisanship that is threatening to drive American governments off of a cliff.(Photo credit: AFP).
Mr. Heaney was always re-examining the relationship between the personal and the public, and he avoided the "diamond absolutes" of partisanship, continually questioning the role of the poet — trying to absorb the shocks of 20th-century history, while remaining true to the inner promptings of his imagination.
Since the war displaced him, his music has avoided the sort of patriotic partisanship he'd embraced in what became his largest and most troublesome hit; instead, he has focused on the country's suffering and its future, on odes to friends and family, and on standard hip-hop braggadocio.
This year, however, Mr. Kerry put out the word that speakers were to accentuate the positive and to avoid angry partisanship.
