Xi appears to be waging a campaign against religion because he was concerned about ideological rivalry, said Karrie Koesel, a University of Notre Dame expert on religion in China.
So far as domestic politics was concerned, the ideological and personal competition between the two Václavs, Havel and Klaus, the prime minister, was not without its comic side.
McConnell and Trump are both dealmakers, less concerned with ideological purity than most every president/majority leader combo (of the same party) in recent memory (e.g. President Obama/Sen. Harry Reid; President George W. Bush/Sen. Bill Frist; President Bill Clinton/Sen. George Mitchell).
A three-act dark comedy that is often likened to "Hamlet," it concerns the ideological conflict between a bohemian couple, who lead lives of cheerful unregulated licentiousness, and their young adult son, who comes home from college determined to impose a rigidly traditional order on the household.
"Belarus has a ministry concerned with ideological matters," she said.
Sarah Palin gave some reenforcement to GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum Thursday, telling Fox News that Republican voters concerned with "ideological consistency" might end up turning to him.
The austere Saudi version of Islam is mostly concerned with ideological purity -- rejecting versions of Islam that incorporate folk traditions or accord respect to human religious leaders, and instead celebrating only God, the Quran and saying of the Prophet.
QUESTION FROM GUY: In a country where politics surrounds you, were you able to converse about literature without ideological views concerning Israel (either with Mr. Grossman, or other Israelis you encountered)?
The policy of the postwar Belgian governments, apart from the "royal question" settled in 1951, was dominated by five major issues: consolidation of the mixed economy, the ideological controversy concerning education, the process of decolonization, the matter of language and regional autonomy, and Belgium's role in the new postwar supranational organizations.
Moreover, we predicted that people would legitimize these shifts in policy attitudes by appealing selectively to ideological principles concerning fairness.
