Sentence examples for overcome partisanship from inspiring English sources

How they can help overcome partisanship and special interests.

In times of crisis, we look for the president to bind our wounds, to overcome partisanship, to unite the country.

Yet with the help of Bob Bullock, a Democrat who was then lieutenant governor, Mr. Bush was able to overcome partisanship, he said.

Yes, politicians can overcome partisanship and unite around something: making New York state the next yogurt capital.

They have peddled the well-worn myth that changes are needed as a way of overcoming partisanship on the part of Republicans.

At the time, support for the Brady Bill was already building and overcoming traditional partisanship: Ronald Reagan had publicly endorsed it in 1991, and in July 1993, the FBI, which rarely involves itself in policy debates, backed a series of measures including handgun licensing and training requirements, a waiting period on gun purchases, and a ban on high-capacity semi-automatic weapons.

Only by properly structuring our political system, overcoming the partisanship that currently plagues Washington, getting our fiscal house in order, and fully embracing our role as a leader in the world will we successfully navigate the vortex of foreign policy challenges we face today.

If lawmakers could overcome ideology and extreme partisanship, they could make real progress on things that most Americans say they want, including immigration and an improved voting system.

"Four years ago," Brown wrote, "I asked that you support my candidacy for governor based on my bringing an 'insider's knowledge but an outsider's mind' to fix the budget breakdown and overcome Sacramento's poisonous partisanship.

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

The candidates who thought they could overcome their district's fundamental partisanship by constructing a more moderate profile were almost all on a fool's errand.