Sentence examples for partisan player from inspiring English sources

It was a strange role for Mr. Raynor: umpiring a game in which he has always been a fiercely partisan player.

"If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass media to undermine the government's standing with the electorate, then he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan player in politics".

This reputation did not survive the Arab uprisings". Instead, with the rise of other slick Saudi-backed media outlets and Qatar's own meddling in the region, Al Jazeera was relegated to being just another partisan player.

"If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass media to undermine the government's standing with the electorate, then he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan player in politics". Three days later Today "suspended indefinitely" Mr Brown's column.

But Marc Owens, a lawyer who works to tackle dark money, says the proposed rules are sufficiently ambiguous not to shut down the big partisan players.

I know there is little chance that today's partisan players are going to adopt this kind of incremental goo-goo approach.

Soon the culture will begin asking itself why these political structures of permanent investigation have developed and who, beyond the platoons of partisan players in the two political parties, actually desires them.

But the way Mr. Menendez first came under broader scrutiny, at a minimum, illustrates the often-hidden role that partisan players have in helping push the major news media to dig into ethical allegations lodged against sitting members of Congress.

There is a growing chorus of criticism against members of the 9/11 commission that they are behaving like partisan players in what was supposed to be an objective review of the terrorist attacks.

The responsibility should be on journalists to explain why they aren't telling us for whom they vote, rather than claiming it's a private matter that would only open them up to dismissal by partisan players or exclusion by politicians who don't believe they'll receive a fair hearing.

But I suspect Mr Obama has positioned himself rather cleverly, looking like a grown-up figure willing to give the small-minded partisan players their sweeties in return for doing what is good for the American people, rising presidentially above petty party politics of left and right.