Sentence examples for civic ideologies from inspiring English sources

"The failure of liberal democratic civic ideologies to indicate why any group of human beings should think of themselves as a distinct or special people is a great political liability," he writes.

This famous oration, however, is largely the work of Thucydides himself; it is a timeless personal tribute to Athenian power and institutional strength but not, as has been argued, a key to unlock Athenian civic ideology.

After all, the more things appear to stay the same, the more they can change in a country whose civic ideology imbues everyone with the firm belief that its principles and institutions embody a unique virtue.

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But it must be significant that the festival of the Dionysia, at which the plays were produced, was designed to reinforce civic values and ideology in various ways: war orphans featured prominently in a demonstration of hoplite solidarity, and there was some kind of parade exhibiting the tribute of the subject allies all this taking place before the plays were actually performed.

The reasons are complex, perhaps having as much to do with the economics of asphalt as with any ideology of civic governance.

The notion that the urge to splurge is fundamentally defensive death denial above and beyond the quite legitimate pursuit of material comfort and aesthetic pleasure is supported by both the historical record and contemporary empirical research.... Could the American Dream actually be just another psychopathological form of death denial raised to the level of civic virtue by cultural ideology?

I wonder how much these "protectors of great Western civilization" realize the kind of damage and destruction they cause to the Western civilizational and civic achievements through their troubling ideologies and actions.

However, civic nationalism isn't the ideology of the modern SNP, it's the fertile ground that it grew out of, via the Scottish Constitutional Convention – an alliance of community activists, politicians and civic leaders that came together in the 1980s to campaign for a Scottish parliament.

As Ellison pointed out, pushing aside and alienating the next generation of American Muslims is not a good way to deal with radicalization: "The best defense against extremist ideologies is social inclusion and civic engagement".

"It's not about ideology, it's about a civic interest".