How to Use ideological in a Sentence

ideological

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  • The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines for the coach.
    — Jessica Gresko, Chron, 27 June 2022
  • 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
  • That smaller share of the electorate tends to be more ideological than the populous as a whole.
    — Boyd K. Rutherford, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The large ideological gulf between the senators and the White House makes the agreement a challenge.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
  • 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
  • Her entry into the Supreme Court race last week set up a four-way race that will determine the ideological balance of the court.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Of course, no World Cup has been immune to the ideological and political battles of the day.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This year, the court voted along ideological lines in 21% of cases.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • In a letter to Shapps, the union accused him of waging ideological war against rail workers.
    — Reuters, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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 desire to give less affluent Americans the chance to build a decent nest egg is one that is shared across ideological lines.
    — Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 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
  • Those of us who don’t want to live in ideological silos should take it as a nudge from a man who helped tear down a monumental wall in Berlin (a piece of which is at his library).
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The right-wing parties in the coalition are all extremely ideological, and Netanyahu has made a lot of concessions to them.
    — Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Who says the Supreme Court marches in ideological lockstep?
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • The two are seatmates and perhaps the two members of the Supreme Court most willing to look for compromise in their ideological differences.
    — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • It is considered to be the word of God and the cultural production that expresses and reflects the ideological beliefs of the church.
    — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But a new twilight struggle would be far murkier than the Cold War’s stark ideological contest between two systems across the globe.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Their prudence is warranted since the business case supporting DEI programs and their ideological underpinnings is losing ground as more research emerges.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Those groups form a petri dish, out of which all manner of personal and societal dysfunction becomes almost inevitable, and that includes ideological capture by genuinely psychotic forces.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024

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