Sentence examples for partisan role from inspiring English sources

Al Jazeera has often been accused of playing a partisan role, applauding rebellious voices and anti-American movements across the Middle East.

Now Mr. Boehner is being called on to play a far less partisan role, leading Republicans and Democrats alike through a difficult period.

It is the most partisan role ever for a spouse of a justice on the nation's highest court, and Mrs. Thomas is just getting started.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is playing a larger and more directly partisan role in this year's elections than it is known to have played in any previous American campaign.

Ayatollah Sistani, by contrast, has for the past several years eschewed any outwardly political or partisan role in Iraq, trying to remain above the fray of Iraq's volatile struggles for power.

He was viewed unfavorably by a majority of Nevada voters, upset with his partisan role as Senate majority leader, first battling former President George W. Bush and then championing President Obama's policies, in particular the health care legislation.

They understood their partisan roles.

Some officials at Civitas appear to shuttle frequently between "nonpartisan" and partisan roles.

But before we slip back into those partisan roles that have been an obstacle to real change these past few years, I hope we can all be united in common admiration for the right we took advantage of on November 6.

The constitution Mr Chávez enacted in 1999 limits it to a non-partisan role.

The current president, José Manuel Barroso, has not ruled out seeking an improbable third term.A deeper worry is that a more overtly political president would damage the non-partisan role of the commission, which claims to act on behalf of large and small states alike, regardless of political colour.