Sentence examples for ideological exercise from inspiring English sources

"Gove is engaged in an ideological exercise, without sufficient care for the consequences of that policy," said Mr Courtney.

The occupation, like the war, turned into an ideological exercise.

Effective government has to be viewed as a collaborative exercise, not simply as an ideological exercise.

Obama and Clinton both approached foreign policy as a largely non-ideological, pragmatic exercise.

Thus in Kachin state, apart from in the few areas under the control of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the armed wing of the Kachins' main political organisation, these schools are used by the majority ethnic-Burman government to exercise ideological control over the minority Kachins, with whom they have been at war, on and off, since 1961.

"It's not an easy decision for a party with an ideological basis, but exercising power in a nascent democracy inevitably requires pragmatism and compromise.

This time, the Party is aiming to keep things under control by limiting the number of debates to nine and exercising ideological caution in its choice of interlocutors; MSNBC, which has a reputation for left-leaning partisanship, will not be invited to host a debate.

Rothstein's "appraisal," however, proves, to be a crude exercise in ideological taxonomy.

Jonathan Romney in his 2002 report in The Independent observed the earth-mother Radha as "India's answer to Anna Magnani" and the film as "an all-out exercise in ideological myth-making".

But two big changes have turned potential into reality: political parties are polarised along ideological lines and powerful interest groups exercise a veto over policies they dislike.

What is to be gained by purging atrocities of ideological content and redrafting them as an exercise in style?