How to Use ideological in a Sentence

ideological

adjective
  • Her entry into the Supreme Court race last week set up a four-way race that will determine the ideological balance of the court.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The country continues to have deep ideological fissures.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The dress code for women became an ideological pillar of the ruling clerical establishment, central to its identity.
    Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The justices split along ideological lines, and the two sides appeared to talk past each other.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Some open-seat races in 2024 could also affect the ideological makeup of the House.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The large ideological gulf between the senators and the White House makes the agreement a challenge.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
  • This is exactly the kind of scene that, in another play, could lead to a shouty ideological cage match.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Eventually, the full court agreed with Mr. Cargill by vote of 13 to 3, split along ideological lines.
    Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Weyrich was a kind of Steve Bannon figure, the ideological bomb-thrower behind the scenes.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That’s why we were sent to Washington, D.C., not to make an ideological point, but to make a difference.
    ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The ecosystem has become a lot less ideological over time.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Never mind that this is the same ideological movement that’s always talking about free speech — the hypocrisy is nothing new.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • The ideological preferences of these judges establish binding precedents for their states and help shape the law of the nation.
    Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As has been the case with so many recent disputes, the Supreme Court appears sharply divided along ideological lines on the issue.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The desire to give less affluent Americans the chance to build a decent nest egg is one that is shared across ideological lines.
    Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • The rulings, both 6-3 along ideological lines, held that the programs violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
  • The right-wing parties in the coalition are all extremely ideological, and Netanyahu has made a lot of concessions to them.
    Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Who says the Supreme Court marches in ideological lockstep?
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • The under-the-radar evolution in housing laws sweeping across the states is one of the few areas of policy where both the right and left can claim an ideological victory.
    Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • When the discussion turned to less prominent sites, the justices across the ideological spectrum were troubled by the lack of information about them in the record before the court.
    Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The reason is clear enough: Hacks has political jokes but no ideological hook to rival The Bear’s working-class bona fides.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • As has been the case in past election cycles, even a handful of House departures could have notable impacts on the ideological makeup of the chamber next year.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • According to the official ideological stance of the party, Marxism was the sole acceptable reading of the past.
    Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • Omar began to move up the ranks in the Congressional Progressive Caucus — one of the largest ideological caucuses in the House.
    Farnoush Amiri, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Many states now have their own domestic terrorism laws, and critics say they could be wielded along ideological lines in places like the Peach State.
    Tim Craig, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • All of this material is free, and all of it, in its ideological fervor, fuels the college’s fund-raising.
    Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Episodes skip forward and backward, tracing the story of a tumultuous time and the ideological schisms that caused the Civil War and continued long after it.
    Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Some incumbents endured, others faltered, the economic problems varied, and the ideological choices were diverse.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This is the season for rallying cries, as Silicon Valley’s tech leaders link arms with the like-minded and square up against ideological foes in politics, culture, and anything else.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024

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