Partisan is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning having or showing a strong, biased support for a particular person, group, or cause. For example: "The partisan audience cheered the politician's every word."
This isn't a partisan issue.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.30pm BST23 30 Sean Penn and Kid Rock have made a mini-movie calling for civility in political discourse and fellowship across the partisan divide.
Piechowski and Bendera spent time in Ukraine before Piechowski returned to Poland, joining the partisan Polish Home Army and spending the rest of the war fighting the Nazis.
The highly partisan response to Sayeeda Warsi's damaging resignation from David Cameron's government revives an old political question: when is it right to resign on a point of policy or principle rather than to fight one's corner from inside?
Many commentators noted that the letter, like the Republican invitation to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to address Congress last week without consulting the White House, marked a dramatic break from the tradition that partisan politics should "stop at the water's edge" and not spread into critical US defence and security policy abroad.
A Unite spokesman said: "The Tories are taking Britain back to the 1920s with this shamelessly partisan attack on the funding of the opposition party.
Fianna Fail will try to paint itself in opposition as non-partisan, patriotic and operating in the national interest.
While the principle of recognition has multi-partisan support, Hosch argues it would be preferable to have Australians consider constitutional change outside the hothouse environment of a federal election.
But non-partisan audiences at the Games treated it as a festival of sport, often applauding English and Welsh athletes as heavily as their own.
Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi said the legislation sent from the Senate represented a "historic" bi-partisan compromise.
The Women's Equality party will be "non-partisan … from across the political divide to work for a fairer, more equal society, aimed at everybody," she said, adding: "Women are different, they can lend a different perspective, and it is a perspective that for too long has been absent.
