Sentence examples for partisan requirements from inspiring English sources
In other venues, he has explained that this means he will attach partisan requirements to routine spending bills — removing, say, standards for clean water, or efforts to reduce carbon emissions — in order to force the President to choose between accepting Republican policies and seeing parts of the government shut down.
But the delays also reflect a cumbersome process, involving extensive F.B.I. background checks, financial disclosure requirements and partisan disputes in the Senate.
Abstaining from partisan politics is required.
The imposition of harsh new requirements to vote has become a partisan issue, but it should not be.
Mr. Cruz said the Obama administration and partisan Democrats would not yield on the citizenship requirement, which they know would kill the entire effort because of a lack of support in the House.
The Board was to be appointed by the General Assembly, and there were no requirements that its composition be bi-partisan.
Backing for the other security bill passed in the House, imposing tough new screening requirements on refugees from Syria and Iraq, was far more partisan.
Although a partisan Republican by any standard, he has in the past endorsed the idea of a universal requirement to buy health insurance anathema to Republican activists since its enactment in Barack Obama's health-care reforms last year.
"Utterly unqualified partisan politicians will look at what utterly unqualified citizens have said about a textbook and decide whether it meets the requirements of a textbook," lamented Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, which monitors the activities of far-right organizations.
