Well, the word "partisan" comes from the French partizane and from the Italian dialectal (arma) partisana, which actually means "weapon".
Thousands of partisans came from Canton and surrounding towns that evening to hear McKinley speak from his front porch.
More fuel for the partisan fires comes from a simple fact: Rarely have the stakes been higher in terms of sheer power.
But the main influence of Partisan Review came from its freewheeling intellectual style, which was exactingly critical yet jokey and colloquial, rooted in sources as wildly varied as Yiddish humor, Talmudic debate, sectarian Marxist polemics, modernist intransigence and psychoanalytic unmasking.
In the last few years, many of those partisans have come from Ontario, particularly east of Toronto, to buy second homes.
Arguments for and against such plans are very likely to fall along partisan lines, with most support coming from Democrats.
It is nothing he should not already be used to, coming from a very partisan part of the world like Gloucester.
But there is all kinds of vitriolic shouting coming from across the partisan divide on Facebook, Twitter and even Instagram this campaign season.
But, on average, Republican partisans come across as dismayingly pessimistic.
The Necessity of Excited Partisans -- At times this year one heard noises coming from the Obama White House complaining about the "professional left" or other such terms to describe unhappy Democratic partisans.
"Schwarzenegger seems to understand that the strongest message coming from the voters was a distaste for partisan politics as usual". Democrats appear to grasp that as well.
