Sentence examples for partisan spirit from inspiring English sources

Ten contrade compete in each race, which is run with intense partisan spirit, rampant distrust, and occasional scuffles.

As the Democratic primaries reach a critical stage, partisan spirit is running high, and the presidential campaign is already verging on blood sport.

According to historian Lewis L. Gould, Senate Republican Minority Leader, Charles McNary of Oregon, reportedly said in August 1933: "To oppose the president now in a purely partisan spirit would be rocking the boat at a particularly unfortunate time".

In that partisan spirit, there has been mudslinging and organizing.

"This brings out the most partisan spirits in everybody involved," he said.

But it will catapult the scandal of the imprisoned nurses into the heart of Europe's political institutions, and demonstrate an excellent non-partisan spirit in Bulgarian politics (not always known for its sober pursuit of the national interest).

Maybe it will bring some bi-partisan spirit to solving the nations problems.

What a more bi-partisan spirit?

I know that consultants would normally get paid 6-figure fees for advice like this, but out of sheer civic duty I am offering this advice free of charge, and in a non-partisan spirit.

The foremost candidate for the Republican nomination was the perennially powerful Blaine, who, despite opposition from those who believed he was too partisan in spirit or that he was vulnerable to charges of corrupt actions while speaker of the house many years before, was nominated on the fourth ballot.

WikiLeaks and organizations like it are a valuable outlet for information that might otherwise be made deliberately difficult to get at, but the timing and spirit of this one give it a partisan feel.