Sentence examples for great partisanship from inspiring English sources

"At times of great partisanship, politicians want to talk in non-partisan rhetoric about partisan things.

What could reverse the trend toward greater partisanship?

"There's a meanness in it, quite frankly, there's greater partisanship," he said.

And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was.

Though there may be greater partisanship in Washington today, politics is treated by many in the political class as a battle less of ideology than of methodology, of pure technique.

But with that greater attention came greater partisanship.

Many questioned whether Watergate would go undiscovered and/or unpunished if it happened today, in an era of weakened media, and — more to the point — greater political partisanship.

"They want somebody else to voice it". On top of this, there is increased pressure from the network for hosts to exhibit greater political partisanship, Matthews said.

As Congress prepares to convene for an election-year session likely to be distinguished by an even greater degree of partisanship than usual, the two parties seem headed toward deadlock on most issues other than dedicating the federal budget surplus to reducing the national debt.

Voters typically express a slightly greater sense of partisanship moments after voting than they do weeks or months before voting.

But 40 of the 52 seats in which they beat a Democratic incumbent were districts in which Barack Obama underperformed his national average in 2008, and they failed to defeat a single one of the 139 Democratic incumbents from a district with a partisanship greater than 55percentt.