Moreover, as Lindblom contends, policy is often made through the interaction of a plurality of partisan individuals, meaning it is a highly negotiated process in which 'neutral' evidence of problems, such as the social determinants of health, play a minor role [ 91].
The election to succeed Mr. Gallagher is a non-partisan one, meaning that candidates are forbidden from using the names of established political parties.
House members from these districts will be praying to the lords of redistricting this spring, hoping for revised and safer districts — meaning more partisan ones — for their 2012 elections.
The wrangling over parliamentary procedure went on for several minutes with the arguments of Democrats and Republicans perhaps presaging future partisan battles over the meaning, purpose and application of the Constitution.
At the same time newsrooms of traditional media outlets have shrunk in size, meaning that partisan voices, such as surrogates or campaign officials from each side, find it easier to dominate coverage that has to be produced quickly.
The film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, the author of the 2007 book "Discovering Orson Welles," observes that commentary tends to fall into "partisan" and "adversarial" categories adversarial meaning a tendency to celebrate the early work while detecting portents of disaster.
The film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, the author of the 2007 book "Discovering Orson Welles," observes that commentary tends to fall into "partisan" and "adversarial" categories — adversarial meaning a tendency to celebrate the early work while detecting portents of disaster.
In all likelihood, the Delaware Democrat will recuse himself from the hearings, meaning an even partisan split on the committee.
Conservatives use "hate speech" the way they use words like "diversity" and "bias," in the hope that the moral valence that the terms acquired in the context of civil rights will persist when the words are applied to partisan divisions, even if their meanings are altered in the process.
But, if the meaning of "bi-partisan" is, as most normal people would think, having representatives of differing views of a debate or contrasting sides of an argument, then, this Commission isn't "bi-partisan".
