Sentence examples for ideological step from inspiring English sources

Whether Mr. Reed is an ideological step backward, too conservative and polarizing to lead Republicans in a state whose rapid growth from a huge influx of outsiders has resulted in some moderation in its politics, he brings formidable political skills to the chairman's job.

Orban's fence, made of expensive razor wire, doesn't just symbolize an ideological step backward into a dark time of dictatorial fear.

Within a few more years I slid all the way to another extreme and called myself an atheist and communist, little realizing I had simply taken a small ideological step to adopt an equal and opposite fundamentalism, intolerant of dissent and similarly polarizing in its philosophy.

Yet the latest data hardly depicts a monolithic Cuban-exile community marching in ideological lock step.

The trial also revealed evidence that tended to counter long-held assumptions about Mr. bin Laden's followers, who have long been portrayed as marching in ideological lock step, ready to pay any price, including death, for his cause.

That would be a mistake, because the question that's been roiling Latin America for a dozen years isn't "left or right?" but "which left?" Outsiders have often interpreted Latin America's swing to the left over the last dozen years as a movement of leaders marching in ideological lock step.

That means that the most urgent task, what God demands of you, is to create a movement that will compel those minions to lay down their weapons — physical and ideological and psychological — and step aside in favor of a new government, created by your own unstoppable movement.

Hillary Clinton, a First Lady of a different order, was nonetheless understood to be in political lockstep with her husband: Cardinal Ratzinger to Bill Clinton's Pope John Paul II, the ideological collaborator always two steps behind the irresistible public figure.

She has given unremarkable speeches to unimposing crowds, underperformed in her own party's caucuses and primaries, introduced no policy ideas that have meaningfully changed the race, acknowledged her own shortcomings as a candidate, and appeared out of step with the ideological urgency of the moment — and yet she is the heavy favorite to be the next President of the United States.

But once the senators stepped into the ideological thicket they did not settle the question of how conservative is too conservative.

Jamison is not blind to the ideological implications of the twelve-step logic, the way that it forces everyone to read from the same script.