For instance, Hu Jintao stated in 2012 that the Western world is "threatening to divide us" and that "the international culture of the West is strong while we are weak... Ideological and cultural fields are our main targets".
Other candidates might seize on an ideological weak spot, such as Christie's previous support for gun control or Planned Parenthood.
But the uncertainty surrounding budgets at all levels of government, the weak economic climate, and ideological disagreement over the role of government make action unlikely before the 2012 elections.
This proposal is weak on both economic and ideological grounds.
Another similarity is how both crises started: a weak player, pushed by its ideological fringe — hard-line Soviet generals, Tea Partyites — decided to challenge its stronger opponent.
In these, refugees are not presented as enemies of the state, rather they are depicted as people whose ideological vigilance was weak, leaving them susceptible to the siren calls of southern propaganda.
Israel is not unaccustomed to coalition governments, but this one is an ideological Frankenstein, a weak dilapidation that ranges from Tzipi Livni, on the center-left, nominally in charge of a peace process that does not exist, to the new Defense Minister, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, who opposes any halt to settlement-building, to a new Housing and Construction Minister who is a settler himself.
But underestimating the extra-parliamentary appeal of Corbynism, taking it for granted that the next Labour opposition will be weak, and possible pressure for ideological coherence on the left to be matched by the same on the right all present dangers to David Cameron.
"[O]ur still-struggling economy, weak laws and political as well as ideological assaults have taken a toll on union membership, and in the process have also imperiled economic security and good, middle-class jobs".
21, 2008, in fact helped McCain where he was weakest, among conservatives who had doubted his ideological bona fides.
External elite-level factors exist when governments make decisions to provoke conflicts in weak neighbouring states for political, economic, security, or ideological reasons, leading to Brown's label "bad neighbors".
