partisan

Examples of partisan in the following topics:

• Partisan Politics

  • Throughout the nineteenth century, third parties such as the Prohibition Party, Greenback Party and the Populist Party, evolved from widespread antiparty sentiment and a belief that governance should attend to the public good rather than partisan agendas.
  • As third-party candidates tried to assert themselves in mainstream politics, however, they were forced to betray the antiparty foundations of the movement by allying with major partisan leaders.
  • Outline the contours of partisan politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century

• Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

  • The Truman administration was characterized by partisan conflict in domestic policy; more cooperation was achieved in foreign policy.

• The Birth of Political Parties

  • Partisan rancor in the first decades of the republic can perhaps be partially explained by the dramatic regional, economic, ideological, and cultural differences between the two political parties.
  • After the war, for a brief period, partisan differences seemed to disappear.
  • However, after Monroe left office, new partisan differences flared up, instituting the Second Party System.

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • On this day, a general partisan uprising alongside the efforts of Allied forces, during their final offensive in Italy, managed to oust the Germans from Italy almost entirely.
  • On April 27, partisans caught Mussolini, his mistress (Clara Petacci), several RSI ministers, and several other Italian Fascists while they were attempting to flee.
  • On April 28, the partisans shot Mussolini and most of the other captives.

• Politics in the Gilded Age

  • Throughout the nineteenth century, third parties such as the Prohibition Party, Greenback Party and the Populist Party, evolved from widespread antiparty sentiment and a belief that governance should attend to the public good rather than partisan agendas.
  • As third-party candidates tried to assert themselves in mainstream politics, however, they were forced to betray the antiparty foundations of the movement by allying with major partisan leaders.

• The Forage War

  • The Forage War was a partisan campaign consisting of numerous small skirmishes that took place in New Jersey in early 1777, following the battles of Trenton and Princeton.

• The Impeachment of Bill Clinton

  • The voting in the House and Senate was largely partisan: in the House, only five Democratic Representatives voted to impeach, while in the Senate, which had 55 Republican Senators, none of the Democratic Senators voted for conviction.
  • Voting along partisan lines, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives sent articles of impeachment to the Senate, charging Clinton with lying under oath and obstructing justice.

• The Era of "Good Feelings"

  • The era saw a brief lull in the bitter partisan disputes that had plagued the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties.
  • In his public pronouncements, Monroe was careful to make no comments that could be interpreted as politically partisan.

• Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

  • In response, Dewey gave a blistering partisan speech in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma a few days later on national radio, in which he accused Roosevelt of being "indispensable" to corrupt big-city Democratic organizations and American Communists; he also referred to members of FDR's cabinet as a "motley crew. " However, American battlefield successes in Europe and the Pacific during the campaign, such as the liberation of Paris in August 1944 and the successful Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in October 1944, made Roosevelt unbeatable.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • While non-partisan, the NWP directed much of its fire at President Woodrow Wilson when criticizing those responsible for the social situation in which women of the era lived.