The people who supported Ali became known as the partisans of Ali or the Shiite Ali.
What is the reason for the partisans seeing the other side as now legitimate in negotiation?
The Obama second term is going to force a lot of issues, by the sounds of the partisans.
The court could call its own neutral expert witnesses, rather than relying solely on the partisans hired by the litigants.
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As a British liaison officer, Thompson joined the partisans and helped them with supplies while also seeking information on the political situation.
So did the brutal German retaliation for the activities of the partisans.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski burned a timeout, and Louisville forward Chane Behanan held up four fingers to the partisans behind the Louisville bench.
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But the hard truth is that the partisans have lined up behind specific fuel options and turned it into a game of winner-take-all.
However, few have been paying attention to the facts as the partisans have worked overtime to paint the Obama administration as being anti-oil and anti-natural gas.
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It also has raised the stakes in the top tier to the point where Nebraska (never one to take football lightly) dismissed its coach this year after he shamed the partisans with a won-loss record of...9-3!
On a more serious front, New York billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been hopping around the country lending his support to Democrats and Republicans with a moderate streak, convinced they hold the key to breaking the death grip of the partisans.
During moments of great emergency, even the worst partisans in our past were able to set aside political advantage for the good of the country.
Which of course drew the Gore partisans' response, "Don't get snippy!"
If America sticks to those standards now it will display a strength and sanity that contrasts with the shrill absolutism and cyber-vandalism of the WikiLeaks partisans.
These are the headline generalities lobbed by partisans in the debate over who should pay.
In 2008, both political parties, despite the heavy rhetoric of partisans, nominated the two candidates who could lay claim to being problem-solvers and consensus-builders.
Rick Santorum took his nostalgia for manufacturing to 2nd place in the recent GOP presidential primary, but lost on his partisans is the simple and happy truth that manufacturing of the labor intensive variety, no matter the tax subsidies, will never return to the United States.
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But early indications are that the Ryan pick has failed to move any of that small, elusive but critical group of swing voters, while dyed-in-the-wool partisans have just hardened their positions.
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"The American people are held hostage to the selfish political interests of partisans on both sides, " says Hofmeister, the former Shell chief executive.
We have learned to expect such dreary reductionism from the dwindling bands of committed partisans, but newspapers are supposed to be above all that, bravely rooting through the muck of rhetoric to find truffles of truth.
Political debates tend to pit partisans of the two syndromes against each other: government activism vs. the free market.
To non-partisans, the idea of taming the deficit by spending cuts alone flies against both common sense and arithmetic.
The text message is clearly here to stay and even the most zealous phone partisans don't recommend avoiding it entirely.
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Gerrymandered districts mean that most congressmen fear their partisans in the primaries more than their opponents in the general election.
Geoffrey Cohen, a professor of psychology at Stanford, has shown how motivated reasoning can drive even the opinions of engaged partisans.
And so the spirit of a professional sporting event or even a college event that you usually get - partisans going crazy and the energy and the spirit of having fans who love the teams - that's all watered down by the fact that the Super Bowl is something that transcends sports and really is a giant corporate event.
My guess is that the fight between Argo and Lincoln is causing partisans in both camps to rank their preference at the top of their ballots and then rank the other film much lower, while a lot of voters in both camps are probably placing Silver Linings Playbook within their top three films.
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If the conduct of hostile bureaucrats and Democratic partisans, reprehensible as it is, can at least be easily understood, the behavior of the FBI is less comprehensible.
The state of heavy metal may be in question, but partisans can agree on one thing: The form's roots are located in the chugging guitar and wailing vocals of two bands: Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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