Sentence examples for ideological ancestors from inspiring English sources
He describes his party as being plain "right", but distances it strenuously from its blackshirt antecedents: "No party these days has ideological ancestors, except perhaps the Refounded Communists".
It plays to an old American fantasy: that the Romans -- at least the square-jawed, honorable, fair-fighting he-men among them -- were just like us, and in fact our ideological ancestors.
But there is one thing that conservatives have been very good at conserving: the positions their ideological ancestors held.
In his conclusion, Lears explicitly identifies Roosevelt as George W. Bush's true "ideological ancestor," a rebuttal to those who would place the universalist Woodrow Wilson first in the Iraq war's genealogy.
By the end of the 18th century, however, many English speakers had accepted the Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire idea that depravity crumbled the West's ideological and cultural ancestors, so evidence of or engagement with that licentious imagery was considered more dangerous than ever.
It is purely ideological".
Offspring resemble their ancestors.
