The Republican Party, which had already gone way out on a limb in its lack of tolerance for the slightest ideological deviation, may have dropped off it.
But beyond personal slights, the ideological and personal gulf separating the pair — Mr. Romney, a wealthy businessman from Massachusetts whose father was a governor who also ran for president, and Mr. Perry, with his roots on a Texas farm — has added to the longstanding suspicion and ill will between them.
He cited the Leningrad Ballet Ensemble as an example of a slight "relaxation" of ideological controls in some cultural spheres.
Rather, he would repeatedly be calling Brezhnev and Andropov strong leaders and praising their intelligence and their brutal decisiveness in confronting the slightest manifestations of ideological dissent.
With a slight lowering of the ideological temperature, there has been far more willingness to see in the Soviet experiment not just horror and death but good intentions, contradictions, and commonalities with Western modernity.
Waters told the Associated Press that while the experience of playing with Pink Floyd again was positive, the chances of a bona fide reunion would be "slight" considering his and Gilmour's continuing musical and ideological differences.
We argue that if the ideological stakes in a case are small, even slight dissent aversion is likely to produce a unanimous decision.
The statistical model I used measured three key factors — a president's approval rating, economic growth and the ideological orientation of his opponent — and taken together, they showed that Obama had become a slight underdog to win re-election.
Any candidate who shows the slightest commitment to Democratic principles is condemned by the party overlords and their media stenographers as "unelectable," or "ideological," or "unrealistic".
It is purely ideological".
