Sentences with phrase «ideological stance with»

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

Not exact matches

Because history has less to do with what actually happened and more to do with the interpretations of modern scholars who often have predetermined ideological stances.

While Lidl claimed it didn't intend to express an ideological or political stance with its products or product design, the firm told Premier that it would be «revising the packaging design as soon as possible» and apologised.

Other potential candidates made pointed interventions with Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warning in The Sunday Times that a Brexiteer - style tough stance on immigration would see the party thrown back into the «wilderness» if it went back to an «ideological comfort zone» in order to «appease the noisy fringes».

The rest of the COMPETES bill would severely lower authorized funding levels for the social and behavioral sciences, geosciences, and international activities at NSF — cuts that are in line with the committee's ideological stance that they play small roles in fostering innovation, bolstering the U.S. economy, and defending the nation against attack.

What Selma does particularly well is balance the ideological in - fighting within the Civil Rights movement — King's Gandhi-esque belief in passive resistance versus the more militant stance of Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch)-- with bursts of violence which cause the viewer to gasp.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

I have not used the term «denier» in this thread, but can answer none the less: to me it is someone who selectively shops in scientific knowledge and only accepts those parts that fit with his / her ideological stance.