By this point the Chetniks had suffered heavy losses, and the Partisans broke through the combined Italian Chetnik defence line in early April.
A partisan fight broke out over Mr. Smith's approach, which would not increase the overall number of green cards issued annually.
Despite the good feelings and promises of cooperation traditional on the opening day of Congress, the partisan tension broke into the open as Ms. Pelosi, in her final remarks as speaker, praised the legislative record of the Democratic Congress, highlighting the health care legislation that House Republicans intend to try to repeal next week.
Midway through the hearing, partisan bickering broke out about whether terrorist suspects ought to be tried in civilian courts and whether the man charged as the Dec. 25 bomber should have been given Miranda rights that could protect him against self-incrimination.
One odd idea was to rename Point Road after Mahatma Gandhi, India's independence leader and moral beacon, who spent many years in South Africa; it is in the city's red-light district.The Democratic Alliance, the main opposition, says it is not against renaming but that the ANC has excluded it from deliberations, tried to impose partisan choices and broken the rules.
New Jersey was too broken, too partisan," the ad said.
The states that are traditionally thought of as swing states — meaning that they are close to the national average in their partisan orientation — might be broken down into different groups based on their elasticity.
"The current partisan system is severely broken," King said, "and we can't fix any of the problems that face the country until we start to talk to one another.
While much of the criticism of Comey has broken on partisan lines, some have crossed the aisle.
Later in the operation Jevđević requested, through the Italians, the assistance of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen in defending Nevesinje, which faced severe pressure from Partisan forces that had broken through the Chetnik lines at the Battle of the Neretva River.
Rumour had it that his nose had been broken by partisans.
