As he began the general-election campaign, Mr. Clinton abruptly changed tone after months of avoiding overt partisanship.

As for political affiliation, he registered an an independent, he said, to avoid partisanship being cited as a conflict of interest in his job as prosecutor.

Their managerial experience and ability to avoid partisanship may be an asset for Mayors who seek higher office.

They want to reach a mass audience, and to avoid partisanship.

At first Edwards tried to avoid partisanship but soon found that faction was an inevitable result of his power to appoint officials and distribute government jobs.

The authority was established to avoid just such partisanship, but the bickering has flared particularly in years of fiscal austerity.

Could there be a more powerful token of mutual determination to avoid mindless partisanship and gratuitous character assassination?

Congress must continue investigating these issues of responsibility, taking care, as the Cox committee did, to avoid sensationalism and undue partisanship.

The new rules were designed to speed the investigation of ethics cases and to avoid partisanship.

This year, however, Mr. Kerry put out the word that speakers were to accentuate the positive and to avoid angry partisanship.