Wartime fervor has always, and should always, sideline narrow partisan considerations.

"They want sweeping, epoch-making, bold measures, which should transcend partisan political considerations," he said.

Not once have I suspected these able and dedicated people were motivated by partisan considerations.

My judgment was not based on a partisan consideration that a specific election system would be advantageous to one political party and disadvantageous to another.

No partisan consideration will blur or color the treatment of any member of the Senate.

The officers said the budget growth was not based on a prediction of who might win the Presidential election next fall, or on other partisan political considerations.

Dan Nelson, a spokesman for the department, said the move was not motivated by partisan considerations.

But if direct partisan considerations are largely absent from the process, wider concerns of suitability are not.

"But this is too sensitive a position to let partisan considerations control decisions," he said.

An essential component of Hezbollah's resistance against Israel was its portrayal of the party as beyond partisan considerations.