Supportive workplace policies can empower people to live the kind of life they would ideally like to live, an ideal that is now more gender-egalitarian than in previous generations, and that is premised on more women "leaning in" at work and more men "leaning in" at home.
Democracy is an ideal that is always "in progress".
Sunshine, sea, and cheap cocktails create a fantasy ideal that is very unlikely to come true.
This civic conception of collective bargaining – perhaps better described as collective deliberation – represents an ideal that is attainable for us.
The sum of two ideals is an ideal that is composed of all the sums of all their individual members.
We know very well that the right to choose is a Western ideal that is always and everywhere constrained by various circumstances.
The Kennedys represent an American ideal that is classy and democratic, and Obama has used fashion to ally herself and her husband with that same message.
By having the ideal, that is God, as the generator instead of the idea, we can see that it fulfils the same function as nature.
She must float towards a physical ideal that is ever more childlike, homogeneous and powerless; and she must know her fate (cupcakes, not Kalashnikovs) when she is small.
But, he made clear, his powerful conclusions about the workings of competitive markets held true only under ideal — that is to say, unrealistic — assumptions.
He does not dismiss the pastoral, homeowning ideal that is at the root of sprawl, and is sympathetic to the vast numbers of Americans who very clearly prefer it.
