"That's to be fiercely partisan, but in the end to look bipartisan."

They recall a competitive young man who became a fiercely partisan politician.

George Mitchell cares deeply about things, and he can be fiercely partisan.

Medill was going to be president one day, everyone said, including Alice, who doted on his wife, a lady as fiercely partisan as she.

Lawmakers look to the budget office as an arbiter in a terrifyingly complicated, fiercely partisan debate.

He will bring more than three decades of serious scholarship on American poverty and dependency to what is expected to be a fiercely partisan fight.

Mrs. Pipkins is a pleasant woman with a tiny voice but a hearty laugh and a fiercely partisan will on behalf of her children.

These health care needs are now entangled in the fiercely partisan debate over the economic stimulus package in the Senate.

The poll suggested that a Giuliani-Clinton race would be a fiercely partisan affair.

After six fiercely partisan decades, he finds himself in the unusual position of trying to still the waves instead of causing them.