Sentences with phrase «ideological battles of»

Some, e.g. Michael Portillo, have claimed that, of the great ideological battles of post-war British politics, the Right proved victorious on economics while the Left triumphed on social values.

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If invaders are to have a lasting impact on the political life of their conquered territory, they need to win ideological battles» in the minds and perhaps then the hearts» of the conquered population.

As long as German Protestants viewed the Kirchenkampf as an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faith.

The Guardian: Peru university in Vatican battle over right to call itself Catholic The Vatican is locked in a bitter dispute with one of South America's top universities in a row that has resurrected ideological differences within the Catholic church long thought to have been consigned to cold war history.

In the midst of scandals, intra-ecclesial ideological battles, and a widespread attitude of indifference — if not scorn — toward religion in general and the Catholic faith in particular, a steady stream of courageous souls continue to convert from other confessions — or no confession — to the Catholic faith.

Now this ideological war seems to be lessening; but power conflicts, violent or otherwise, will continue to involve semi-ideological battles for legitimacy and justification of power.

And a realistic — rather than idealistic — view of social change perceives the ideological battle behind historical change as being closely intertwined with the battle of interests.

She talked of «the ideological battle against socialism», and sought to use her position to change the national mindset.

5.30 pm LeftWatch: Beneath the tedium of the Lib Dem conference is an ideological battle between social democrats and classical liberals

Both locally and nationally, it has been taken over by the hard - left who are more interested in fighting internal ideological battles than standing up for the priorities of working men and women.»

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This did much to somehow turn the rather technical non-issue of the powers of foundation hospitals - a subject which very few voters will ever comprehend - into some totemic ideological battle.

That development could well mean another generation of under - employed and frustrated young men, growing violence due to unemployment and resource scarcity, growing pressures of international migration, and growing ideological battles with Europe and the U.S..

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

but he extends his «reasoning» to a range of other political and economic issues, including the heated ideological battle over whether Keynesian deficit spending or austerity is the best cure for government deficits.

Temporarily freed from the restraints of a battling - robot franchise, he's allowed to make his most purely ideological statement yet in the form of a (fact - based) story about three idiots pursuing their warped vision of the Horatio Alger myth — which happily coincidences with Bay's.

This led to him squaring off against Captain America and the other anti-registration heroes in a battle of ideological differences, an the ending him emotionally scarred after discovering that Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) killed his parents.

The Labor Party has pledged to create a A$ 280 million research institute to «take politics out of the classroom» and «put an end to decades of ideological battles about school education», if it wins the next federal election.

And while reading has been the subject of fierce pedagogical battles, «the ideological divisions are not as great on the math side as they are on the literacy side,» said Linda Chen, deputy chief academic officer in the Boston Public Schools.

Moreover, none of the steps of the next phase will be possible without fighting and winning some major battles at the attitudinal, ideological, political, legislative, and policy levels, and without breaking down some long standing barriers of distrust among education stakeholders.

It's the most expensive in U.S. history and may help decide one of the most important ideological battles roiling the Democratic Party — the battle over charter schools in education policy.

As states and school districts across the United States continue to fight their battles over curriculum content, educators should not be satisfied — even if their state standards include the content they desire — unless schools make a commitment to also promote the values of ideological diversity and tolerance.

In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language.

This criterion guided the standards writers» work and minimized some of the ideological battles that had plagued standards setting in the past.

Indeed there is something theatrical about the pitched battles fought across continents and decades between those on opposite sides of a grand ideological divide, each with a great deal at stake beyond the ideas themselves.

The purpose — or lack thereof — of art will most likely be debated until the moment true liberation arrives, so a to - and - fro process repeats throughout history, with culture occasionally called upon to serve in ideological battle, then permitted to roam free.

She takes up this ubiquitous feature of every modern home as a historical nexus, both of the post-World War II ideological battles over planning and speculation, and of several gender - coded modes of production.

A flyer for a Misfits all - ages show, an advertisement for a television documentary, and a text scrawled on cardboard at a rally in the republic of Ivory Coast are given equal footing in Einarsson's works which consistently point to the ideological battle inherent to sign systems.

In this sense, McEvilley was reminiscent of an earlier poet - critic, Harold Rosenberg, especially in that his famous debate with the Museum of Modern Art's William Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe mirrored the legendary ideological battles Rosenberg waged with Clement Greenberg, the father of eurocentric reductionism, at least on the American shore.

It was controversy at its finest, pitting members of the same professional network against one another in an ideological battle, and raising questions of feminism and censorship that still resonate today.

What I'm arguing is that the idea that we can win the climate fight without engaging in ideological battle over these core questions about the role of government has always been a fantasy.

It is indeed difficult to conceive of a solution to the climate challenge that will sidestep polarization and — quite probably increasingly ugly — political and ideological battles.

What the culture wars represent is not the continuation of ideological struggle between left and right as such, but the dearth of political ideas with which to do battle.

No, with perhaps walking back the rhetoric, it doesn't concern me — it is what it is, part and parcel of identity politics in the context of polarized debates that serve as proxy for ideological battles.

The whole account also serves as another reminder of how activist our media environment has become — climate denial blogs swiftly ran the story, sure, but Fox News quickly pushed it out the gate too, treating the event as ammunition for fighting an ideological battle as opposed to something that should require, you know, investigating or something.

This rhetoric is symbolic of a greater ideological battle in sustainable business today.

Instead of passing ideological bills that will be tied up in costly court battles, our legislators should focus on reducing the need for abortion by preventing unintended pregnancies and supporting families.