Partisan and ideological determination overwhelmed the search for consensus and common ground.
As he noted, "we — the press — are the only ones who have the determination to get beyond the partisan bickering and get at what really happened".
In fact, they were strongly bonded by a realization of Nixon's wrongdoing and their determination to rise above narrow partisan interest.
We also need nonpartisan administration of our elections to ensure that partisan election officials are not making discriminatory determinations of who gets on the ballot, who gets to vote, how voter rolls are purged and how votes are counted.
All three delivered soaring rhetorical flourishes about a new spirit of patriotism that transcends partisan politics as well as the nation's determination to defeat Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
The counting process appeared quite different from the one conducted last month in South Florida, where partisans often disrupted the proceedings by objecting to the determination of a vote on an individual ballot.
For all the ridicule Bishop has often attracted, for all the outrage she has provoked – particularly as the most partisan Speaker of the House in living memory – Bishop's determination, ambition, vanity and imperviousness to criticism should not be ignored.
The publication of "Courting Disaster" suggests that Obama's avowed determination "to look forward, not back" has laid the recent past open to partisan reinterpretation.
"He is just tireless in his determination to get to the ground truth and not be blown off course by partisan investigators".
Richter showed that determination tonight by repelling a series of well-launched shots in the third period, as the partisan crowd kept screaming for a goal to give the Lightning a cushion for the final minutes.
