Sentence examples for Ideological backing from inspiring English sources

Can free software thrive independently from ideological backing?

Theravada Buddhism provided the ideological backing for autocratic monarchy and the aristocracy.

The North Koreans learned the art of spin from the Soviets, who, along with the Chinese, provided exile and ideological backing to Kim Il-sung, the founder of the dynasty that has ruled North Korea for three generations.

As a result of Chinese influence, Buddhism was introduced in 372 ce as an ideological backing for the newly developed centralized bureaucracy, and, at about the same time, Confucian education began to be emphasized as a means of maintaining the social order.

But a decade and a half after a crumbling Soviet Union hastily withdrew financial and ideological backing from Cuba, Russia is seeking to expand economic ties with the island and possibly forge stronger military relations in an echo, as yet still faint, of an alliance that lasted some 30 years.

But almost two decades after a crumbling Soviet Union hastily withdrew financial and ideological backing from Cuba, Russia is seeking to expand economic ties with the island and possibly forge stronger military relations in an echo, as yet still faint, of an alliance that lasted some 30 years.

There is little room for ideological back-and-forth when children are seen as hideous enemies from a horror film: "I was like a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping; a cud made of a living material that continually amalgamated and softened its living substance to allow two greedy bloodsuckers to nourish themselves, leaving on me the odor and taste of their gastric juices.

In my view, the combination of two very ideological appointments, back-to-back, at a time when the issues likely to come before the Court are destined to pose serious threats to constitutional rights, easily justifies a "no" vote on this nomination.

But it's not yet clear how any liberal ideological pull-back will be expressed.

Critics accuse the coalition government of using the deficit as an excuse to carry out an ideological paring-back of the state.

Much portentous analysis would have you believe that Conservatism itself has reached a fork in the ideological road: back to the centre and into the euro with Mr Clarke, or deeper into right-wing insularity with Mr Duncan Smith.