Sentence examples for severe partisanship from inspiring English sources
But several liberal groups and Democratic lawmakers have attacked what they call his severe partisanship on and off the bench in episodes including the Iran-contra affair, the Whitewater investigation and accusations of sexual misconduct against President Bill Clinton.
There is a sense that the legislative process just isn't set up to work, either because of the severe partisanship in both chambers, or because lawmakers tend to run from painful choices, or because of rules that make it easy for a minority party — in this case, the Republicans — to sabotage legislation.
Especially in times of severe political partisanship, reliance on bureaucracy to deliver on campaign promises increases.
At the same time, the U.S. political landscape has been changing since the 1970s, ushering in deep partisanship, severe polarization, permanent campaigning, a combative 24/7 media and diminished civility.
The United States has good reasons to care about other issues — from nation-building and human rights to climate change and energy security — but severe economic constraints and bitter partisanship make success on those issues unlikely.
Is not that ability and the fact that, as Mr. Brooks acknowledges, Senator Obama is not "fully a member of any club," but who is "smart" and "conscientious and idealistic" exactly what is needed to transcend partisanship and address the nation's severe problems in an intelligent, objective, pragmatic manner?
One involves partisanship.
They disdained partisanship.
Locally, partisanship — Republican partisanship, to be specific — trumps propinquity.
