1. Bipartisan is altogether different from nonpartisan.

2. The nonpartisan, nonviolent and civilly disobedient El Barzon has been hit with mass arrests of its leaders.

3. Note: The nonpartisan center tallied personal contributions in 1995 by 300 Washington lobbyists, lawyers and members of their families.

4. The independent nonpartisan commission has proposed three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.

5. Voters seeking nonpartisan information on the issues and candidates' stands can access thousands of Web sites.

6. The recall was the first and only nonpartisan city council election in Tucson history.

7. The California Public Education Partnership, a coalition of nonpartisan organizations trying to improve schools, commissioned the poll.

8. The allegations came in a report by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity detailing the backgrounds of presidential campaign advisers.

9. Nonpartisan observers generally expect almost all the money directed at education to survive in whatever final package emerges from the legislative process.

10. APSS is nondiscriminatory and nonpartisan with respect to politics[http:///nonpartisan.html], race and religion.

11. The founder of Politifact, another nonpartisan referee to the daily rumble, said two of the site's five most popular items on its Truth-o-meter are corrections of Glenn Beck.

12. But the nonpartisan AIDS and poverty awareness group the One Campaign says just 14 percent of those funds have been delivered.

13. The nonpartisan CBO, Congress' budget analyst, likely will have a somewhat different estimate, but both are stark reminders of the swift-growing $11.7 trillion U.S. national debt.

14. So what, other than dismissing the nonpartisan budget office's verdict as "their opinion" — as Mr. Boehner has — can the G.O.P. do?

15. Nonpartisan think tanks and not-for-profit organizations do a lot of it.

16. On Monday, Congress's nonpartisan number cruncher released an 11-page report describing how the newly minted debt-ceiling deal would cut the deficit by at least $2.1 trillion.

17. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan outfit, predicts that 13% of adult enrollees will be in fair or poor health, twice the share of those in today's private insurance market.

18. They especially object to the insistence that the polling be nonpartisan, saying this will lead to chaos and excessively personalized competition.

19. The president would no longer be chosen by voters but by an electoral college of supposedly nonpartisan locally elected deputies.

20. Congress does not always follow the recommendations of the nonpartisan agency.

21. Each side has proposed a plan that would balance the budget in seven years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

22. The conventioneers did not care that her 30-minute keynote speech was largely nonpartisan.

23. Both areas have seen unemployment double since the third quarter of 2007, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

24. Meanwhile, Obama would be "Pepsi-Cola," associated with "the choice of the next generation, more the challenger brand [that] is trying to change things," said Adamson, whose firm is nonpartisan.

25. The silver lining with the FBI is that at least they're nonpartisan in their non-cooperation with Congress.

26. Michael Levi is the Senior Fellow for energy and environment at the nonpartisan private research group the Council on Foreign Relations.

27. Health insurance reform will slow these rising costs, which is part of why nonpartisan economists have said that repealing the health care law would add a quarter of a trillion dollars to our deficit.

28. "It's an indigenous revolution," says Miguel Urioste, researcher and former director with the La Paz-based nonpartisan land rights group Fundacion TIERRA.

29. The Congressional Budget Office (usually known by its nickname, "the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office") projects inflation rates of less than 2 percent for the next decade.

30. That's the essence of the Westminster model, which is part of Hong Kong's heritage as a former crown colony: elected ministers, nonpartisan civil servants, all working for the people.

31. By law, charitable foundations must conduct exclusively nonpartisan activities that promote the public welfare.

32. The job would make Gen. Jones, a nonpartisan figure, the chief policy coordinator between the State Department, the Pentagon and other national security agencies.

33. The competitive edge of the United States economy has eroded sharply over the last decade, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.

34. The survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 41 percent of respondents disapproved of Obama's handling of the Gates arrest, compared with 29 percent who approved.

35. Sometimes CBO strays and tries to be bipartisan, rather than nonpartisan.

36. Using research provided by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group based in Washington, D.C., we started with a list of the nation's counties with populations over 65, 000.

37. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday gave updated projections on the likely U.S. budget deficit in fiscal 2009 and beyond.

38. The Squam Lake Group on Financial Regulation is a nonpartisan, nonaffiliated group of 15 academics and policy specialists who came together to offer guidance on the reform of financial regulation.

39. The nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated the holiday would cost the federal government about $80 billion over ten years in lost revenue.