Although promotion these days depends on competence as well as ideology, the PLA's political role gives it a voice in security policy.
The party's current southern bias risks alienating other regions the party's poor showing in California and the north-east has a lot to do with regional rivalries as well as ideology and eventually turning the party into a mere regional party rather than a national one.
But ideology is also a stubborn thing, and when a group is as blatantly driven by ideology as are PSEHE and the Park Foundation, factors like facts and reality are just inconvenient obstacles to be ignored.
Islamic extremism as an ideology is hardly new with the first movement that resembles today's phenomenon, known as the Kharijites, appearing shortly after the birth of Islam in the 7th century.
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But that is as much because of the culture that shaped them as the ideology that motivated them.
Americans are so taken with romance as an ideology that it blinds us to what is really going on.
In the end, the Soviets' instinctive desire to control everything, everywhere, trumped any real attempt to be as popular as their ideology told them they should be.
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And Mr Bush has been busy burnishing his ideology as well as his image.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has the same leftist ideology as the U.N.
PLO-Fatah never had a problem with Hamas attacks against Israel, or with its annihilationist ideology as regards Israel.
Europe has shed socialism as a ruling ideology, with even left-wing governments accepting they have to work with markets.
The McDonald book is remarkable for its relentless focus on the effects of a low-income lending ideology as a cause of the financial crisis.
In 1985, a law was passed requiring all political parties to accept pancasila, a package of vague principles that Sukarno enunciated as the national ideology in 1945.
For example, the Islamic Circle of North America adheres to similar ideology as the Jamaat-i-Islami, which calls for Islamic revolution and creating an Islamist state in Pakistan.
Where Congress happens to be of the same party or ideology as the president, this can also help to some extent, though party ties are weaker than they are in Britain.
In June 2009 Mufti Sarfaraz Naeemi, a leading Sunni cleric from the Barelvi school spawned by Sufi preachers, was killed in a suicide-bombing in Lahore, after he had publicly denounced the Taliban's terrorist ideology as repugnant to Islam.
And as I said, I think the commercial ties that are taking place -- there's something about when people think that they can do business and make money that makes them think very clearly and not worry as much about ideology.
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Among the work he has published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals are a series of papers on crime and punishment, drug-gang finance, penalty kicks in soccer, money and elections, drunken driving, and the effect of ideology as opposed to voter preferences on the policies supported by politicians.
The bad news is that the instructive incident suggests a problem of such ominous proportions that it raises questions as to whether our government is being rendered incapable of fighting successfully an ideology best described as Islamofascism at home, to say nothing of abroad.
The agent motivated by ideology or, as often as not, by the traumatic loss of ideology may develop slowly, sometimes over years.
The murder was prompted by an ideology of bigotry and terror masked as a faith-tradition - an ideology of radical Islamism at war with the modern world of freedom and democracy.
The big question is how biologically determined are things such as intelligence, political ideology, etc.
Loathsome as Hamas's ideology is, a movement of this sort cannot be uprooted by an army.
Yet Sudan's recent history does owe quite a lot to a brand of Islamic supremacist ideology, as M.
The political ideology known as Shariah is the fault line between Muslims who are enemies and those who are not.
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We are interested in having a discussion with the left and defeating them with our ideas as soon as they form an ideology, we're all ears.
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