For the past few centuries, wars have been fought mostly between states, or empires, or ideological blocks (as in the Cold War).
In choosing her 37 ministers she has made a reasonable job of satisfying the competing demands of her party and coalition, regional and ideological blocks and her own desire for a third of them to be women (she managed nine).
The [slotting] of us into these ideological blocks means that the litmus tests are stronger [than] ever... if you're going to hold on to these identities.
In fact, this is the first time in the history of exit polling that moderates were not the largest ideological voting block.
The study reveals practitioners' perceptions of a multiplicity of operational, technological and ideological barriers blocking progress, and consequently a picture of academic engagement remaining disappointingly patchy.
The circus existed as an American constellation because it represented some of the country's ideological building blocks and the pieces of its mythology: outlaws and outcasts; men, women, and beast scraped from the fringes of society, nomads and pioneers, packed on a train, chugging through an unfamiliar land to spread the good word.
Because of these ideological stumbling blocks and the lack of comprehensive international cooperation on the issue, U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan have not seized the opportunity to direct the sale of Afghan poppies for the production of these desperately needed drugs.
An "ideological divide" has blocked progress on negotiating investments that benefit local communities, says the report.
In other words, an effort to establish total political and ideological control by blocking out foreign influence and crushing all rival centres of power at home.
