How to Use party politics in a Sentence

party politics

noun
  • Despite this, party politics rarely seemed to play a big part in public life here until recently.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Why should very local and important issues have anything to do with party politics?
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In modern times the convention has been that the sovereign should not be drawn into party politics.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024
  • Opponents argue that the state should keep party politics out of school board elections as much as possible.
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • As though party politics were a family minivan and Joey called shotgun but his sister got the seat.
    — David Von Drehle, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • Emmons is a former nonprofit leader and first-time candidate who left party politics decades ago.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But as the full scale of the atrocities of Hamas have become clear, those voices have been largely constrained to the fringes of party politics.
    — Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • To be clear, many commissioners, including recent ones, have been active in party politics.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Internal campaign giving reflects the structure of party politics in the House.
    — Mayank Kejriwal, The Conversation, 10 June 2026
  • And party politics aside, the result suggests that old tactics to intimidate and suppress voters largely didn’t work.
    — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But the turkeys of partisan party politics had the main character energy.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
  • On the left, he’s heralded as the only voice capable of seducing young men disaffected by party politics.
    — Abigail Sylvor Greenberg, Vanity Fair, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Even as Sand downplays party politics, Democrats are putting faith in him to blaze a trail in the state after struggling electorally in recent cycles.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • While the council is technically nonpartisan, party politics have not been kept secret.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This explains why many reservists believe that their position transcends party politics and policy squabbles.
    — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2023
  • But thousands of pages of documents released this week in the libel suit filed by Dominion show how the network blurred the line between journalism and party politics.
    — Nicholas Riccardi and David Bauder, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Yet the anger went beyond the typically narrow interests of Turkey’s party politics.
    — Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2013
  • Much of Britain’s support for Ukraine, of course, is rooted in cultural and national identity, which runs deeper than party politics.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This issue also doesn’t map onto party politics particularly neatly, right?
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The New Deal art programs, however, were temporary relief measures tangled in party politics.
    — John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • To their credit, four Republican senators were mindful of their obligation to something above party politics.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Image The controversy appears to have little to do with traditional party politics.
    — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • Sigcho-López said Tuesday that his campaign is built on a coalition frustrated by party politics and government corruption.
    — Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • But from its inception, the relationship between class, geography, and party politics rested on two shaky foundations.
    — Stephanie Ternullo / Made By History, TIME, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In local elections across the country on Tuesday, voters proved that data center opposition has transcended party politics.
    — Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2026
  • While Cincinnati City Council races are officially nonpartisan, party politics play a big role.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The nationalization of party politics means there are few members of Congress representing states or districts that voted for the other party for president.
    — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Young has said the effort to repeal the authorizations transcends party politics, political philosophies or geography.
    — Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The North Carolina Republican Party is facing one of the most predictable crises in the history of party politics.
    — David French, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The nationalization of party politics has led to the weakening of party politics, and that, in turn, has widened the disconnect between local concerns and national power structures.
    — Julia Azari, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019

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