Sentence examples for ruling idea from inspiring English sources

The implications of this for Australian industries and Australian workers will become frighteningly obvious as the dead hand of climate change denial becomes the ruling idea of the ruling party governing Australia at this critical time.

He said this thing which stuck in my head and became a ruling idea for the next 5 or 10 years of my life.

The pie comes in many variations, but the ruling idea is to throw chopped nuts and fruit into a cloud of whipped cream, which becomes the pie filling.

This is the ruling idea in Whitehall, still, that civil servants are passive observers of the game of electoral chance, and live with the consequences even if they involve huge reductions in headcount and service levels.

There is nothing intimate about this kind of dancing: like the military, it operates as a form of franchise, whereby a ruling idea – "America", "Beyoncé" – presides over many cells that span the world.

The best summary I've seen of all this comes from Martin Wolf of The Financial Times, who describes the new conventional wisdom as being that "giving the markets what we think they may want in future — even though they show little sign of insisting on it now — should be the ruling idea in policy".

Having rejected Maoism and retaining Marxism only in name, China has set out on a path of development that owes few of its ruling ideas to the west.

According to Marx, in any society the ruling ideas are those of the ruling class; the core of the theory of ideology.

The show doesn't just depict the struggle of surviving under capitalism, it undermines its ruling ideas.

Theatre critic Alex Sierz characterised the genre as taking the audience "by the scruff of the neck", adding that "questioning moral norms, it affronts the ruling ideas of what can or can't be shown onstage".

Theater critic Alex Sierz characterized the genre as taking the audience "by the scruff of the neck," adding that "questioning moral norms, it affronts the ruling ideas of what can or can't be shown onstage".