Sentence examples for ideological narrative from inspiring English sources

Iran's ideological narrative is that there are no real conflicts between the sects, but that Western powers and Iran's enemies in the region deliberately mislead certain Muslim groups.

The Chinese contribution was pushed aside soon after the conflict, as an inconvenient story in the neat ideological narrative of the Cold War.

In this atmosphere, deviations from a narrow party line are punished more severely than blatant stupidity, and fresh ideas are dismissed or ignored because they don't fit a neat ideological narrative.

They have had enough of being told by the local imam that they're "not allowed" in the mosque and are rejecting the impractical ideological narrative that removes them from contributing to public life.

Endless news broadcasts by Iran's state television offer an ideological narrative in which Saudi Arabia and Qatar are doing the bidding of the United States and Israel, helping to arm foreign "terrorists" and sending them into Syria to punish it for having opposed Israel.

This approach performs an ideological function, in that it discursively integrates the current upheaval into a pre-existing approved ideological narrative – the dictatorships of the Middle East are merely the latest in a long line of tyrannies to have been undermined by the relentless march of progress and liberal democracy.

"The big, grand ideological narratives were not seen today," said Amr Hamzawy, research director of the Carnegie Middle East Center.

By that he meant that any artwork derives ideological narratives from the context in which it is displayed.

It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination, or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing — as that "I think" indicates — to be uncertain even about its own assertion.

Orbán and Kaczynski have similar ideological narratives of national "reconstruction" for their former Eastern Bloc countries, which joined the EU at the same time, in 2004.

To be effective at a time when everyone is being pummelled with "facts" day in, day out, providing rigid ideological narratives that are easy to understand is essential.