Sentence examples for partisan passage from inspiring English sources

In one strikingly partisan passage, to be delivered in front of both the Senate and the House, Obama said the defining issue of the present time is how to keep the promise of America alive.

In previous eras, passing fixes was routine, but that's no longer the case: In 2010, Republicans, bitter about the partisan passage of the Affordable Care Act, used the filibuster power to stonewall tweaks that would have allowed healthcare exchanges and individual plans to work better, crippling the program to make it easier to attack.

But it criticized what it called the "unjustified and highly partisan" passages in the report.

The taxation of Social Security earnings began in 1984 following bi-partisan passage by Congress of a set of Amendments in 1983, which were signed into law by President Reagan in April 1983.

If both parties become further entrenched, or a bill to waive the spending cuts is tacked onto a partisan bill, passage is not assured.

While, conceptually, comprehensive immigration reform has strong bi-partisan support, its passage is far from certain.

Views of the law have been sharply divided along partisan lines since its passage.

Mr. Grassley said he worried that "partisan bickering" could block passage of any measure on the issue.

The agreement, if anything, does not go anywhere near far enough in reducing armaments, largely a reflection of increasingly partisan politics following the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

You may not approve of partisan politics in winning passage of legislative agenda, but to compromise is often equally disdained.

Fortner hastens to explain that many Democratic legislators had partisan concerns (the bill's passage was viewed as a Republican victory) and distinct cultural identities — black political élites, he writes, tended to be more optimistic about Harlem than their working- and middle-class constituents were.