Sentence examples for ideological tool from inspiring English sources

Stalin was also the first Russian ruler to introduce sports as an ideological tool, a kind of opium of the masses.

Mussolini's contribution of an article on fascism indicates the extent to which the work might be regarded as an ideological tool, but, in fact, most of its contents are international and objective in approach.

Photomontage achieved its height as an ideological tool in the 1930s but remained in practice even in the late Soviet period, said Olga L. Sviblova, the director of the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow and an authority on Soviet photomontage.

Like the Young Turks, he wanted passionately to throw off the shackles of the dominant cinéma de papa of the time, but Godard, Rivette and the rest also wanted to establish film's autonomy in France against its use as an ideological tool in the cold war.

Thundafund's Patrick Schofield also believes that the crowdfunding model can be an ideological tool that can bring about change.

From its very inception, the Islamic regime used Islam as a political and ideological tool.

Rutherford saw that the pillars of the regime were eroding, including the economic and ideological tools that allowed it to maintain power.

This view of the conduct book, and of Thoughts in particular, questions the earlier interpretation of the genre as a mere tool of ideological indoctrination, an interpretation that grew out of criticism influenced by theorists such as Michel Foucault.

It uses the patina of flagrant, joyous artifice and a cavalcade of well-judged star cameos to mask a critique of shady dealing in the film industry, and cinema's enormous potential to operate simultaneously as an ideological weapon and a tool of suppression.

While Saudi Arabia has sought to wield its Wahhabist ideology as a tool to promote its geopolitical agenda, it has perhaps overlooked the risk of losing control over its ideological disciples.

"Otherwise, the conventions may be distorted and the committees risk losing authority and being reduced to tools of ideological pressure rather than a necessary stimulus towards the desired progress in promoting respect for human rights," said Lombardi.