Ideological resistance, lack of investor interest and bureaucratic obstacles have been mostly to blame.
Nonetheless, a combination of increasing ideological rigidity, lack of new ideas and sheer cussed habit has taken the right completely out of these debates, except as rock-throwers and gear-grinders.
"It became necessary because of a mix of ideological blindness, lack of understanding of basic eurozone rules, unforgivable brinkmanship and plain incompetence during the first six months Syriza was in power".
The real risk would be a cabinet riven by ideological divisions, lacking the cohesion to tackle further reform, which might succumb to the drift of the presidency of Corazon Aquino, Marcos's successor: "a laid-back president, and squabbling advisers and cabinet".But Mr Estrada has a solid power-base among the poor, who trust him and rather like his rough-and-ready image.
The German chancellor is famous for her – depending on how you see it – ideological flexibility or lack of permanent values.
Germany, assuming that ideological differences and lack of common interest would keep republican France and tsarist Russia apart, allowed its Reinsurance Treaty with Russia to lapse in 1890.
The judge, Ronald Lee Gilman, pointed to the one-ride-only language and what he called the Supreme Court majority's ideological inconsistency and lack of intellectual seriousness.
(Many studies of combat have shown that the bonds of affection between soldiers tend to matter more to cohesion and morale than the grand ideological purposes — or lack thereof — that they're fighting for).
Instead, a Romney loss will encourage party leaders to blame his ideological inconsistency, his lack of charisma and his moderate past for the defeat, rather than to swiftly initiate a major re-evaluation of the party's approach to ethnic or racial minorities.
And how did HRW's "military expert" (apparently Marc Garlasco, whose ideological bias and lack of expertise were evident in "Razing Rafah," and in the 2006 Gaza beach incident) make such determinations while observing from an unnamed distance and location outside of Gaza?
