Sentence examples for ideological blow from inspiring English sources
A defeat in Mosul would be a massive ideological blow to the Islamic State's ideology, with the city representing the heart of the caliphate that the group declared in the region two years ago, according to one terrorism expert.
While these local groups may have benefited in the short term from the turbulence that followed the Arab Spring uprisings, they have also suffered an ideological blow that could make it far more difficult to recruit young followers.
They fell to an embarrassing defeat in the group stage to East Germany, though that proved a more political and ideological blow than a sporting one, given it sent them into the easier second-stage group alongside Poland, Sweden and Yugoslavia.
The Bloomberg debate wasn't the first time the two come to ideological blows.
There is certainly a strong case for the former, particularly in the form of higher public investment, but at present this is not the way the ideological wind is blowing.
Terrorism experts have said the possible death of the British militant known as Jihadi John has dealt an ideological, rather than operational, blow to Isis.
The Revolution had dealt a powerful blow to the ideological underpinnings of slavery and had shaken the Colonial social order.
If the campaign to retake Mosul is a success, it would not only be a massive military defeat for IS but more importantly it would be massive blow to its ideological stance.
If it goes down soon, as Cameron fears, in a world of empty coffers and hobbled public services it will precipitate an ideological crisis graver than the blow to Keynesianism in the 1970s.
The FBI reassured the world that thanks to the "swift collaborative action" of law enforcement, it had rounded up five "self-proclaimed anarchists … intent on using violence to express their ideological views" by attempting to blow up a bridge near Cleveland on May Day.
In the absence of major ideological differences, we tend to blow the minor ones out of proportion.
