Sentence examples for partisan ground from inspiring English sources

The only consequential Republican victory was Michael R. Bloomberg's election as mayor of New York, and that race was not fought on partisan ground.

Of these losses, 19 were to Partisan ground fire, 12 to accidents and four deserted.

The first missions cost the ZNDH a Breguet and a Potez aircraft, both of which crash landed after being hit by Partisan ground fire.

He said the issue was not the park but a concerted political campaign against him by those who opposed his policies on partisan grounds.

"When the country is divided along cultural, economic and partisan grounds," Mr. Brands said, "people look for a time when we were all together".

Ms Vázquez says she would appoint independents and members of other parties to her cabinet in return for support in Congress, where many of Mr Calderón's initiatives have been blocked on partisan grounds.

While it echoes questions he has raised in the past about the motives and integrity of the prosecutors, it challenges the inquiry for the first time on partisan grounds.

The most recent rulings by the court dictate that race cannot be a predominant factor in the drawing of district lines, but that redistricting plans may be defended on purely partisan grounds, which are often indistinguishable from racial ones.

Even more important to his stature within the department itself, he will need to address accusations that the department's ranks and their work were politicized under Mr. Gonzales, with experienced United States attorneys replaced because they were insufficiently loyal to the administration and with prosecutions pursued on partisan grounds.

Though the vice president defended his 1996 actions largely on partisan grounds, he repeatedly appealed today to independent voters who, polls have shown, favor campaign finance reform and who fueled the insurgent campaigns of Gov. Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, former Senator Bill Bradley, Mr. Gore's rival in the Democratic primaries, and, particularly Mr. McCain.

It is not whether the official faces partisan attacks, or whether Senators oppose the nomination on partisan grounds.