Sentence examples for partisan weapons from inspiring English sources
The proposals are mainly designed to tantalize voters and to serve as partisan weapons the two parties can aim at each other.
The first part of the paper addresses fiscal policy rules by analyzing their political appeal as restrainers, symbols, partisan weapons, and ideological statements.
Tax policy is not just an economic tool; it's a partisan weapon.
They had no intention of letting their partisan weapon fall into Republican hands.
Brooke said that he and Chalabi hit upon a notion that, he admitted, was "naked politics": the I.N.C.'s disastrous history of foiled C.I.A. operations under the Clinton Administration could be turned into a partisan weapon for the Republicans.
It appears that transparency lends itself equally to being both a tool of democracy or a partisan weapon.
Resolutions of inquiry have increasingly become a partisan weapon wielded by the House minority party, a Congressional Research Service report found.
Challenging efforts aimed at the "rehabilitation" of McCarthy, Haynes argues that McCarthy's attempts to "make anti-communism a partisan weapon" actually "threatened [the post-War] anti-Communist consensus", thereby ultimately harming anti-Communist efforts more than helping.
And the same can be said for many of the biggest causes in the netroots and the blogosphere -- and the same questions should be raised about why the core economic issues rarely get netroots attention, other than when they are deemed a good partisan weapon against George Bush.
This means that once a donor has given a candidate the maximum $5,000 allowed under law, the candidate could ask for thousands more to be donated to an "independent" Super PAC that everyone knows to be an aggressively partisan election weapon.
