partisan issue

collocation in English

meaningsofpartisanandissue

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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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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofpartisanandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpartisan issue

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This institutional vulnerability, of course, also tends to deprive the left of the benefits that might be reaped frompartisanissue-associations.
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Unfortunately, the legislature's desire to convert a public health measure into apartisanissuewas not an isolated incident.
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This is, in and of itself, somewhat puzzling because improvements were not an especiallypartisanissue.
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In particular, the "fingerprints" of party voting were noticeably present on the constitutional prohibition of federal funding for internal improvements, a troublesomepartisanissuefrom decades past.
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This, to me, is not a party or apartisanissue.
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I agree with him that this is not apartisanissue.
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This is not apartisanissue; we should all be worried about this country's young people.
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This is not apartisanissuein my own local authority.
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However, rather than making apartisanissueof it, he might look at the advocacy fund seriously.
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However, this is not apartisanissue, even though it remains essentially a political one.
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It is not satisfactory that this should be seen as apartisanissue.
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It has never been apartisanissuefor the press.
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Perhaps there is less of apartisanissuehere than we sometimes make out.
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This is not apartisanissue; it is an issue of absolute bureaucratic nonsense prevailing in the face of sheer common sense.
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I do not think that this is apartisanissue.
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There has never been any question of this being apartisanissue.
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I hope and believe that good management is not apartisanissue.
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