Sentence examples for partisan confrontation from inspiring English sources

It's not a fiery partisan confrontation; it's a kind of fighting bipartisanship.

Where does that leave Norquist and his theory of permanent partisan confrontation?

The partisan confrontation escalated over the committee's investigation of President Clinton's 1996 campaign fund-raising.

But it is likely to trigger important partisan confrontation in coming months.

House Republicans, in a fiercely partisan confrontation with the Justice Department, foolishly cited Mr. Holder for contempt in June for resisting some of their demands for documents.

But the low-key event seemed to capture tempered expectations after four years of economic troubles and near-constant partisan confrontation.

Mr. Bentsen has tended to avoid partisan confrontations with Congressional Republicans.

WASHINGTON — The titanic struggle over how to reach a broad Congressional tax agreement is not just the latest partisan showdown, but rather the culmination of two years of escalating fiscal confrontations, each building on the other in its gravity and consequences.

The confrontation demonstrated an escalation of partisan tensions in the wake of last week's indictment of the White House aide I. Lewis Libby Jr. in the C.I.A. leak case.

The problem is that in a political environment as partisan as this one, that kind of confrontation tends to generate more heat than light, and also risks real disaster.

He made it clear he did not want to provoke a confrontation with Karzai or risk partisan violence, even though he feared the runoff would bring a repeat of the fraud that marred the first presidential poll in August.