How to Use ideological in a Sentence

ideological

adjective
  • The justices split along ideological lines, and the two sides appeared to talk past each other.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Some open-seat races in 2024 could also affect the ideological makeup of the House.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • This is exactly the kind of scene that, in another play, could lead to a shouty ideological cage match.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Eventually, the full court agreed with Mr. Cargill by vote of 13 to 3, split along ideological lines.
    Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Weyrich was a kind of Steve Bannon figure, the ideological bomb-thrower behind the scenes.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That’s why we were sent to Washington, D.C., not to make an ideological point, but to make a difference.
    ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The ecosystem has become a lot less ideological over time.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Never mind that this is the same ideological movement that’s always talking about free speech — the hypocrisy is nothing new.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • The ideological preferences of these judges establish binding precedents for their states and help shape the law of the nation.
    Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As has been the case with so many recent disputes, the Supreme Court appears sharply divided along ideological lines on the issue.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The rulings, both 6-3 along ideological lines, held that the programs violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
  • Who says the Supreme Court marches in ideological lockstep?
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • The under-the-radar evolution in housing laws sweeping across the states is one of the few areas of policy where both the right and left can claim an ideological victory.
    Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • When the discussion turned to less prominent sites, the justices across the ideological spectrum were troubled by the lack of information about them in the record before the court.
    Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
  • As has been the case in past election cycles, even a handful of House departures could have notable impacts on the ideological makeup of the chamber next year.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • According to the official ideological stance of the party, Marxism was the sole acceptable reading of the past.
    Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • All of this material is free, and all of it, in its ideological fervor, fuels the college’s fund-raising.
    Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Episodes skip forward and backward, tracing the story of a tumultuous time and the ideological schisms that caused the Civil War and continued long after it.
    Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Both the extreme right and the extreme left in the Pacific Northwest have weaponized online exposure against their ideological foes.
    Jim Brunner, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • It’s even gotten to the point where some of the justices themselves have expressed concern over both the perception and reality of the court’s ideological divides.
    Cooper Burton, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Time and space do not permit a thorough dissection of the entire tool kit, but a few examples will suffice to demonstrate the profound ideological tone.
    Richard T. Bosshardt, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Putin has made clear that Russia is fighting a permanent background war with the West, which gives him both an ideological raison d’être and a way for his ruling elite to maintain power.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Although popular with users from across the ideological spectrum, the ACP’s future is in doubt as legislation to extend the program has stalled.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Still, there is a sense the political well has been poisoned, in a state where the ideological divisions are intense and often regional.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There was at least a tissue of an ideological case against McCarthy, whom his critics accused, unfairly, of not fighting hard enough for spending cuts.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Pay attention to the details and one becomes aware of the ways in which universities are ideological battlegrounds.
    Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In the two other cases, more judges of every ideological persuasion were skeptical of the challenges.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Such are the fruits of an abandonment of analytic rigor in favor of a pursuit of ideological outcomes.
    Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 15 Sep. 2023
  • On Wednesday, Biden and Lula are expected to jointly highlight a point of ideological convergence: The rights of workers.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023

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