Sentence examples for ideological axes from inspiring English sources

"The Republicans are taking advantage of the economic downturn to sharpen their ideological axes and settle old scores".

Those who devote their main attention to cutting food stamps or soaking the rich are grinding ideological axes, not confronting fiscal realities.

A quick internet search seems to show that the first paper to report it (on August 2nd) was the New York Post, ever a bastion of dispassionate reporting on urban issues (see "Wrong-Way Crash Mom Drunk, Stoned"), and one with no particular ideological axes to grind ("Send Doctor Bill To The Rich").

An Iraq war hawk and leading neoconservative, Bolton has an ideological axe to grind.

"With no particular interpretative or ideological axe to grind, Harman is able to tell the story straight, and to get rid of all argumentation and clutter".

Mr Osborne's fiscal hawkishness is an ideology like any other, of course, but the charge that he and the Tories are ideological axe-men relishing the chance to slash back the state does not ring true.

The author doesn't appear to have an ideological axe to grind, so he can report enthusiastically a proposal to combine organic and GM technologies to help feed the growing world population.

But it's local government that people rely on when disaster strikes, so one might wonder if it deserves the constant drubbing it receives from the financial and ideological axe-grinders in government.

But even from the beginning, Rachel stood apart, first because she didn't go to Goldsmiths like most of the others (she went to the Slade after Brighton) but also because she was much more a classical, formal stylist than a conceptual artist, with no political or ideological axe to grind.

And what the events of the last three years have shown is that perfectly ordinary people, with no ideological axe to grind, have found the means to resist it.

Briggs was quick to claim his independence, saying that his work had received no interference at all from the Center, "I have no ideological axe to grind at all about the use of value-added assessment or the LA Times.