Sentences with phrase «ideological nation building»
«This was a golden opportunity for the government to develop a historically rich and forward - looking curriculum, but it has become a crass bit of backward - looking, ideological nation building.»
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In the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and water.
The symbolic nature of the struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building of the nation and to destroying the ideological domination of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.
Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.