Sentence examples for ideological testing from inspiring English sources

On one level it is a dramatized newsreel (the story is sandwiched between vintage film clips) that encapsulsates the moment when Communism and Fascism were jockeying for position, and France was caught in the middle, while the Spanish Civil War was used as a military and ideological testing ground.

On the Republican side, in particular, these are increasingly governed by ideological tests.

The rhetoric keeps getting more hyperbolic, the opposition more intransigent, and the ideological tests more rigid.

Yet, just a few months later, the employees were back to using ideological tests.

Trump similarly embraced an ideological test for Muslims seeking entry into the US while campaigning for president.

In a letter to Mr. Vivanco, Mr. Holloway wrote that "LASA does not and cannot apply an ideological test for Congress participation".

To counter "radical Islamic terrorism," Trump called for sweeping measures that include the "extreme, extreme vetting" of immigrants, and ideological tests to screen immigrants for "hostile attitudes".

He also brought a generation of doctrinaire conservatives into the bureaucracy and the courts, making appointments based on ideological tests that only a genuine movement leader would impose.

Mr. Xi will face another ideological test later in the year when the Communist Party celebrates the 120th anniversary of Mao's birth.

Trump also promised ideological tests for would-be visa applicants, a "sunset" on visa laws requiring Congress to rewrite them every few years and a ban on taxpayer funding for cities that don't deport undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Trump did not explain how his vision of "extreme vetting" of immigrants, including an "ideological test," would be enforced, or how it would be different from when prospective terrorists lie on questionnaires now.