Sentences with phrase «ideological struggles over»

Secondary concerns include the town's response to the recent flood disasters, and deeper ideological struggles over taxes, budget cuts, and the size of government.

She described the city's school system to me recently this way: In the ideological struggle over choice and charter schools «we're actually in the middle.

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Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

The war of words between Paul, King and (related to Sandy aid) Christie has escalated over the past several weeks and comes at a time when the Republican Party is continuing to experience an internal struggle between the recently empowered Tea Party / Libertarian set and the ever - shrinking circle of moderates that hasn't yet given up hope of reclaiming ideological control.

The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.