Sentence examples for an ideological army from inspiring English sources

At one point, the FARC was a 17,000-strong force, not long after its 1964 founding as an ideological army seeking to narrow the gap between rich and poor.

This office has tried to elevate the role of data so that every close call is not just a matter of pleasing the right ideological army.

Ultimately the soldiers and political commissars of this ideological army, with their blind and unquestioning faith in their cause, outlasted the proud, cold professionals of a modern superpower.

Meanwhile, the right's ideological army was torn asunder by those who wanted Akin to quit his Senate race so that someone else could take on the Democratic incumbent, and others who stood firm behind Akin and his right to believe whatever he likes.

Cami Anderson, an ideological ally, and two others.

Indian officials portray an ideological, power-hungry Pakistani army as the problem.

"There is no part of the national curriculum so likely to prove an ideological battleground for contending armies as history," complained an embattled Michael Gove in a speech last week.

It is part of a project the Sadrists announced in August to create "an ideological, cultural, religious and social army" to battle "the secular Western tide," as a pamphlet put it at the time.

Set up after the 1979 revolution as an ideological counterweight to the less politically minded regular army, they have accrued enormous power under Mr Ahmadinejad.

The army made a conscious decision to transform Pakistan into an ideological state as against a pluralist nation-state championed by politicians like Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, whom the military had toppled and disparaged.

The army is getting an overhaul after the Lebanon debacle, but even the best-trained army cannot destroy the kinds of threats Israel faces today.Third, the collapse of pan-Arabism left an ideological vacuum.