Sentence examples for ideological blocks from inspiring English sources

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.

Poland's electoral swing to the nationalist right made that ideological block possible.

By the end of 2009, conservatives held a two-to-one edge over liberals and had surged ahead of moderates to form the largest ideological block in the electorate.

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.

In fact, this is the first time in the history of exit polling that moderates were not the largest ideological voting block.

Perhaps so but it might be a tad too optimistic to say that polarisation between the West, the Islamic world and other ideological and regional blocks has been overcome.

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.

Academic associations and governments shouldn't use political or ideological litmus tests to block scholarly exchanges.