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Example sentences for "partisanship"

Lexicographically close words:
partio; partir; partis; partisan; partisans; partit; partition; partitioned; partitioning; partitions
  1. They're tired of the partisanship and the shouting and the pettiness.

  2. He was sure that they who knew of his partisanship would try to make him lose his temper.

  3. Whether the commission did its duty in declining to investigate and right the wrong may be debated, but the judgment of history will probably say that neither equity nor statesmanship, but partisanship guided the decision.

  4. He showed the extent of his partisanship by supporting with the full power of the administration the Territorial government imposed on Kansas by a palpably fraudulent vote.

  5. That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.

  6. He brushed the mold of prejudice and the cobwebs of partisanship from many a brain.

  7. We are too much dominated by partisanship to be really patriotic.

  8. A day has come when partisanship with its personalities and bitterness does not satisfy the public.

  9. Every one has a sense of humor and as little partisanship as possible, and still bear the title of Democrat.

  10. At the same time we recognize the fact that both prejudice and partisanship are now making strenuous efforts to create the judgment that the Negro should be stripped of his civil rights and that his education is going on too rapidly.

  11. The importance of the race question in the South cannot be overstated, and it is a question the very gravity of which makes all partisanship on either side the gravest offense against the welfare of the country.

  12. Young Colonel Roosevelt, son of the former republican president, and Colonel Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark, former democratic speaker of the house, joined hands in the endeavor to keep partisanship and politics out of the organization.

  13. At present it is possible only to avoid partisanship so far as it can be done, read with open mind whatever documents are available, and refrain from either praise or condemnation.

  14. Most of these problems, moreover, had to be solved through political agencies, such as party conventions and legislatures, with all the limitations of partisanship that these terms convey.

  15. One strange and beautiful feature of American partisanship for an ideal is its shyness.

  16. The young salesmen had laboured successfully to bring these strangers to a feeling of partnership in at least the aims of the Company, of partisanship against the claims of other less-favoured valleys than Lucky.

  17. In their platform they sought to exorcise the evil spirit of partisanship by inviting their fellow citizens to "support the Constitution of the country, the union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws.

  18. But when the war began, you put your partisanship aside and supported our troops.

  19. And I believe that in your hearts you want to put partisanship aside and get the job done, because it's the right thing to do.

  20. There are also a calmness of judgment, a correctness of taste, and an absence of partisanship which are too frequently wanting in biographies, and especially in political biographies.

  21. Until his hasty, impulsive temper became so soured by partisanship as to warp his judgment, Morris remained as well satisfied with the people and the system of government as with the land itself.

  22. Partisanship had grown rancorous during the eventful course of the controversy; rancour was fanned into passion by the excitement of decision; and to all was added the extra and unusual bitterness of a party split.

  23. But his misgivings were concealed from the public by his consistent defence of the Union, by an unaffected partisanship and by the lively attacks which he made upon the Opposition.

  24. Partisanship was not slow to perceive its opportunity.

  25. Alike from conviction and partisanship he was drawn continually to the more Radical view of political disputes.

  26. Show me the man, and I will show you the law," used to be an old English proverb, illustrating the depth which judicial partisanship and corruption had reached.

  27. But this partisanship has led to unjustified, and often unmeasured, attacks on England, and similarly unjust and hateful attacks have been made against Germany from the side of the English.

  28. The passionate partisanship of our people for the Boers was humanly intelligible; feeling for the weaker certainly appeals to the sympathy.

  29. Now acute observers know that what may be called the disease of contemporary partisanship rarely even begins till the undergraduate period, and is at its severest from twenty-five to thirty-five.

  30. The first of these ideas is order of merit, together with the kindred notions of partisanship and hostility applied to individual authors and works.

  31. The terrible discipline of these years of exile and sorrow had, Ethel could well believe, worked out something very different from the well-intentioned wilful girl whose spirit of partisanship had been so fatal an element of discord.

  32. May said all that man might say on ground where he felt as if over-partisanship might be perilous.

  33. In addition, the work is not only of the greatest importance, but it has been very satisfactory, because partisanship has not at all entered into the disposition of matters pertaining to our foreign affairs.

  34. He was a Democrat all his life, but never allowed partisanship to enter into his action on legislation.

  35. It was said of him that he used to make one fiery Democratic speech at each Congress, and then not think of partisanship again.

  36. You know what Miss Cynthia Lennox is going to do for me," she said, abruptly, almost boastfully, she was so eager in her partisanship of Cynthia.

  37. Ellen felt both resentment and shame, and also a fierce dawning of partisanship towards Granville Joy.

  38. There is not much indication even of partisanship or patriotic feeling.

  39. The partisanship of the spectators "pulling" for the home team is a faint comparison with the partisanship of war, with comrades asking for more than your cheers.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partisanship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    belligerence; bent; bias; bickering; discrimination; dissension; dissent; dissidence; exclusiveness; faction; favoritism; flak; inclination; inequality; infighting; injustice; interest; involvement; irascibility; jaundice; leaning; nepotism; partiality; preconception; predilection; preference; prejudice; prepossession; sectarianism; sectionalism; twist