Sentence examples for substituting ideology from inspiring English sources

It was in 1988 that I first realized, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the U.S. government is "the emperor wearing no clothes," ignorant of most of what goes on in the world, substituting ideology for intelligence, and expensive, largely useless contracting and technology for thinking.

Instead, an administration that faulted its predecessor for being ideological seems to have substituted ideology for reality-based foreign policy.

Turnbull once openly scorned people who substituted ideology for evidence.

By signing an executive order repealing the nearly eight-year-old ban, Obama cheered patients, doctors and scientists who maintained that Bush had substituted ideology for science and had set back critical medical research in order to placate conservative supporters.

"Like Mississippi's failed 'Personhood Amendment' Proposition 26, these misleading and ambiguously worded 'personhood' measures substitute ideology for science and represent a grave threat to women's health and reproductive rights that, if passed, would have long-term negative outcomes for our patients, their families, and society," ACOG said in a statement.

But elected officials on both sides of the aisle will need to show considerably more courage the next time shortsighted lawmakers try to substitute political ideology for sound medical judgment.

Hammering away at an ideology, substituting stridency for contemplation, pummeling its enemies in absentia: ScienceBlogs has become Fox News for the religion-baiting, peak-oil crowd.

In a few cases, it seemed as if the people were not so much replacing an Arab political leader as substituting a competing religious ideology.

This devolution has happened through the gigantic machinery of publicity, substituting propaganda and entertainment for knowledge, and ideology for a sense of history.

Obama himself speaks as if pragmatism were a substitute for ideology, or at least an improvement on it.

Beijing is cursed with a backward political system, yet instead of reform it has spawned a virulent nationalism as a substitute for ideology.