partisan bias
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpartisanandbias
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partisan
adjective
uk/ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/us/ˈpɑːr.t̬ə.zən/
strongly supporting a person, principle, or political party, often without considering or judging the matter ...
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bias
noun
uk/ˈbaɪ.əs/us/ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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(Definition ofpartisanandbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I begin testing forpartisanbiasin the redistricting by analyzing malapportionment levels in a series of regressions.
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Thus, the party spending and vote shares are far from ideal measures of campaign effort andpartisanbiasat the level of the polling district.
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These figures show very little discerniblepartisanbias.
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This shows thatpartisanbiasin the constituency will tend to be exaggerated but leaves the question of how or why unanswered.
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Partisanbiasis shown by the difference between the lines drawn for each political party.
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Galbraith pointed out the tract's numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations resulting from its stronglypartisanbiasbut admits that some of the details may be true.
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It is only crass ignorance or wilfulpartisanbiasthat can cause the production of such rubbish.
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Whetherpartisanbiasis attributed to them or lack of sensitivity, criticism is always made of the appointments they make in this very sensitive field.
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The discussion has been almost entirely free frompartisanbias.
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This would have nopartisanbiasand would offend nobody, of whatever political opinion or of whatever religion.
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I do not make that point from anypartisanbias.
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Labour'spartisanbiason this supposedly non-political campaign is becoming utterly childish and simplistic.
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This reveals your realpartisanbias.
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It would lead to allegations ofpartisanbiasand provide a great temptation to those seeking to undermine the democratic process to influence the exercise of that discretion.
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While maintaining apartisanbias, it is a secular organization open to all persons regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, or political preference.
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In his conduct of the war, as in the general administration of his high office, there was no semblance ofpartisanbias.
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