Sentences with phrase «ideological stances»

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.

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.

The introductions of these two sub-demographics naturally pushed the overall party's «average» ideological stance closer to the conservative side of things.

Berry says important things, but Warren spoke to people living in the «industrial» and «modern» world that was personal as such, and didn't make some ideological stance against what may have been the result.

They are philosophically opposed to Keynesianism, not just opposed on empirical grounds, and their ideological stance makes empirically based arguments for Keynesianism invisible to them.

«It is crystal clear to every reasonable person that only the ideological stance of IPOB can stop all these killings and massacre of innocent citizens across Nigeria.

«The decision of which quotes to use was dependent on portals» ideological stance.

The push for a property tax cap, ethics reform and gay marriage mirrors the Democratic governor's ideological stance, a fiscal conservative who wants to shrink taxing and spending while championing open government and civil rights.

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.

It begs the question: Is this really about school reform, or is it about somebody's philosophical or ideological stance, that they're just so, you know, didactic... that they're going to push this program without any flexibility whatsoever, without any pragmatism, without any common sense?

But Amazon's lead in the fight against music DRM was a business decision rather than an ideological stance.

When you start from a whacked premise due to an ideological stance, or a mere refusal to give up the good life, it doesn't matter how smart you are, you're still going to end up in the weeds.

As I can't see any legal license anywhere, i suppose the «Commercial use prohibited» is just an ideological stance, and doesn't have any legal support, am I wrong?

Actually, if you look at the discussion (take, for example, the comments to Mitch Kowalski's Dec. 30 slaw.ca article, which ran to 52 pages — and counting — as of this week) it seems less a debate than a war of ideological stances — there's for and there's against.

Bitcoin Cash supporters claimed over the weekend that the surge in support reflected an ideological stance in favor of the newer currency, while detractors suggested the price jolts amounted to a pump - and - dump maneuver by Chinese miners and others: