Sentence examples for partisan contest from inspiring English sources

Battles over voting rights are just one indicator of the intensity of the partisan contest, the force of which is highlighted by the rhetoric on Capitol Hill.

But instead, the race has turned into a surprisingly close, bitterly partisan contest, with a Los Angeles city councilwoman, Janice Hahn, a Democrat, fighting off a challenge from a Republican businessman, Craig Huey, in a runoff election on Tuesday.

In the preferred Republican scenario, the legislature forces a special election that forces Mr Obama to decide whether he wants to intervene, in his first 100 days, in a partisan contest.We'll get a better sense of the Minnesota recount as soon as the Minnesota Supreme Court rules on a lawsuit by Norm Coleman, the incumbent Republican who's trailing by 47 votes.

Insofar as there's any traction for the Western anti-war or anti-interventionist movements, the dramatic death of the anti-war movement following the inauguration of Obama indicates this is a partisan contest for control of Western interventionism rather than real opposition to the interventionist model.

Strong support for this partisan contest for the spoils of influence peddling by the post-Clinton Democratic party is provided in an academic study by Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen, and Alexei V. Ovtchinnikov, Corporate Political Contributions and Stock Returns (2010).

Signed by people including Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York and Bob Packwood of Oregon, the letter says: "None of us shrank from partisan debates while in Congress or from the partisan contests getting there.

Sandra Day O'Connor, the retired Justice, has devoted much of the past five years to crusading around the country against partisan contests for judgeships, arguing that an appointed judiciary provides the best bulwark against corruption and for individual rights.

None of us shrank from partisan debates while in Congress or from the partisan contests getting there.

To date, with a few noteworthy exceptions, retention elections have tended to be less bitter and partisan than contests where two candidates compete.

Even before Obama signed the healthcare bill, I've watched with gross disappointment as both Democrats and Republicans face-off in a hyper-partisan pissing contest over who is screwing America more.

Here is their somewhat partisan account of the contest:.