Sentence examples for ideological decision from inspiring English sources

It was a major ideological decision".

This is an ideological decision, one driven by dogma, not by evidence-based, rational analysis.

Xenophon says the rejection of international permits is a "bizarre, ideological decision".

This Government's ideological decision not to have an industrial stategy is putting jobs at risk," she said.

Reconciling, or finding a new equilibrium for these competing values, is a difficult but nonetheless essential ideological decision.

The president cast it as an ideological decision made because Van Susteren was fairer to him in her coverage.

After he takes office, it will be clearer where Mr. Obama fits on the presidential spectrum between the wonkish and pragmatic but less disciplined style of Bill Clinton, and the crisper but less curious and more ideological decision-making of Mr. Bush.

Since Qaddafi makes the ultimate ideological decisions, the spectacle calls to mind the worst aspects of multiparty democracy, albeit without parties or democracy.

These measures are often arbitrarily implemented based on ideological decisions rather than on the available evidence and therefore adverse consequences are to be expected in terms of financial protection, efficiency, and equity.

"The problem is that tactical decisions have been made into ideological decisions," says Chris Henick, a Republican strategist and former adviser to George W Bush. "Somehow a senator or congressman who otherwise has a 98% rating from interest groups suddenly might face a primary challenge just because they disagreed with the [shutdown] strategy".

Some of the most strikingly ideological decisions, like abruptly firing and humiliating the entire Iraqi Army and purging from their jobs many hundreds of thousands of Baath Party members, seemed designed to alienate and antagonize a Sunni population already terrified of its security in the new Iraq.