Development policy from the Marshall plan onwards was a form of cold war ideological arm-wrestling.
The Church was fiercely determined not to allow anyone to lay hands on this weapon, and its ideological arm, the Inquisition, was alerted to detect the telltale signs of proliferation.
Media outlets like the Times and the Washington Post are merely the ideological arm of highly educated urban cosmopolitans, liberals, and financiers — the "donor class," Bannon calls them — who have benefitted from globalization and large-scale immigration.
The history of history-education evaluation is littered with voguish pedagogy, statistical funny business, ideological arm wrestling, a disproportionate emphasis on trivia, and a protocol that insures that each generation of kids looks dim to its elders.
Mr. Kadivar comes to this ideological battlefield armed with Koranic verses and complex theological scholarship.
They would have to fight a ferociously ideological enemy armed with sophisticated and superior American weapons taken from the Iraqi army.
In a long and wide-ranging career, Mr. Kolakowski most famously dissected the intellectual underpinnings of the Communist system he had supported as a young man, at the height of the cold war's ideological and military arms race.
While the Bush administration has repeatedly condemned the Russian military action as a "disproportionate" response to the Georgian attack and called for a speedy withdrawal, Mr. Bush's language on Wednesday was an effort to position the conflict within a broader ideological call to arms.
(In the Bush Administration, the ideological opposition to arms control does not come from military officers, whether present or, like Secretary of State Powell, former. It comes from neoconservative intellectuals, very few of whom are familiar with the smell of napalm in the morning).
Durbin (D-Ill)., the number two Democrat in the Senate, is in fact something of a Coburn ally, if not an ideological brother in arms.
