Sentence examples for partisan power from inspiring English sources

Today's vote was a classic partisan power struggle infused with peculiarly Texan overtones.

But as the abrupt emergence of anti-Obama, anti-Democratic sentiment in 2009 and 2010 demonstrated, the balance of partisan power remains highly volatile.

Baucus and several other key Senate Democrats opposed reconciliation, and Republicans decried its use on such major legislation as a partisan power grab.

Ms. Van de Putte called the Republican effort to redraw the boundaries a "partisan power grab" and said she and her colleagues would return to Austin if the Senate leadership dropped redistricting from the agenda or when it "returns to regular rules of the Senate".

Now in the weeks since a partisan power struggle in the State Senate brought New York's government to new heights of chaos, a growing chorus is calling for a more radical approach: a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's very political DNA.

Today, a cynical, partisan power grab has trumped principle, and it could get worse.

But not for the petty partisan, power-envy reasons that have woken you to the issue.

It is simply a partisan power-grab.

The non-partisan Power Vote drive is coordinated by the Energy Action Coalition, an alliance of 48 environmental groups that focus largely on college campuses.

I would like to clarify the Brookings Institution's role in the drafting and publication of "Post-Partisan Power," a report on United States energy policy referred to in "Next Step on Policy for Climate," by David Leonhardt (Economic Scene column, Oct. 13).

Dolan another pandering, blusterous, hyper-partisan, power-worshipping clerical charlatan has proved an awfully auspicious partner for Sharpton.