the rejection of political dogmaideologicali‧de‧o‧lo‧gic‧al /ˌaɪdiəˈlɒdʒɪkəl◂ $ -ˈlɑː-/ ●○○ AWL adjective 
The party is split by ideological differences.—ideologically /-kli/ adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The two Communist powers split over ideological differences in the late 1950s.
- Both men are staunch conservatives, but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
- Evidently the attainment of an ordered world consonant with divine laws remained the ideological framework of antislavery.
- His ideological step has lost its bounce.
- However, the ideological meaning of this rhetoric is not necessarily clear.
- Many coed schools provide excellent educations, but the reasons for the movement seem to be less academic than financial and ideological.
- Shades of religious or ideological belief mean that a rhetorical justification is always to hand.
- The chief obstacles to Ecotopia lie in the economic, political, cultural and ideological levels.
- Whatever their other differences, good middle-class reformers would not countenance such ideological backsliding or remain passive before fashionable aristocratic interventions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the rejection of political dogmaCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
the rejection of political dogma· Here again it is a matter of ideological assumptions and the unit of study.
· Ethnic conflict is not explained by competition for limited resources; it seems to have an ideological basis.· It is important to note that the above interpretation of the ideological basis of Marxism and functionalism is debatable.
· The film also brings to light the fascinating ideological battles that took place within the party.· Inpart, this decline has been effected by the successful ideological battle waged against them by Mrs Thatcher.
· It has implied that where ideological commitments are involved a distinction may be made between relatively easy gestures and hard administrative battles.
· It has all the cut and thrust of an ideological conflict.· Such ideological conflicts overlap traditional party lines and erode traditional party loyalties.· In the 1630s, in particular, he presided over a fractious chapter, divided by personal and some ideological conflict.· There are pitfalls and temptations and ideological conflicts.
· No serious ideological differences distinguish Fianna Fail, by far the stronger, from Fine Gael.· Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?· His party is riven by personal and ideological differences and is under fire because of allegations of corruption.· Unstable cabinet systems have been prevalent where stronger ideological differences and multiple political parties have emerged in contemporary legislatures.· It is now clear that Woodhead's ideological differences with the Government run far deeper than anyone imagined.· President Clinton, meanwhile, said there remained ideological differences between the two groups.· In an election otherwise relatively free of ideological difference, education starkly divides the parties.
· The ideological divisions evident among people with disabilities are exploited to the full by policy-makers.· Its manner has exposed the procedural inexperience of the first full-time Soviet legislature and the ideological divisions of its 542 members.· Indeed, it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division.
· But even his ideological enemies sneakingly admire his unabashed aggression, a quality rare in a city of trimmers and dissemblers.
· But the system and rigour is the product of the peculiar institutional and ideological form that science takes.
· In becoming routinized, however, roles and relationships carry an essential ideological function in the fact that what exists remains unquestioned.· Success of the literary process becomes a measure of the balance achieved between artistic techniques and ideological functions.· In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the statusquo, and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control.· But this epistemology itself is parasitic upon other practices, which serve the same ideological function.
· The chief obstacles to Ecotopia lie in the economic, political, cultural and ideological levels.· These are at the individual level, at the institutional level and, unfortunately, at the ideological level.
· However, the ideological position is not an empty one.· Some of the critics want to foist their narrow ideological positions on him.· They argue that the various theories of society are based, at least inpart, on value judgments and ideological positions.· An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.· He had been reading Lenin's Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism, and his ideological position had hardened.
· Now, Althusser consigns state apparatuses to political practice, and ideological state apparatuses to ideological practice.· We have seen that Althusser invokes certain aspects of political and ideological practice to explain the reproduction of the relations of production.· And yet there is no special ideological practice which gives us the idea of it.
· In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.· S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle.· Their measures of success are not ideological purity but profitability within their chosen sectors.· Neither of the superpowers has had much interest in ideological purity.· The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.· Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity.· Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections.· He expressed himself in favour of ideological purity, strictly in accordance with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, and for purging members who deviate.
· There were thus political and ideological reasons for promoting this student tide, not just economic ones.· Franco was well aware of this, in spite of the imposition of autarchic principles for ideological reasons.· The Labour Party, riven by schism and self-doubt, seemed in long-term, inexorable decline, for sociological as well as ideological reasons.
· An analysis and cross-cultural comparison of such circumstances would involve study of political and ideological structures rather than technologies.· Neither does this deny the possibility that local community can indeed be an ideological structure in itself.· The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures.
· Ex-combatants of an ideological struggle that had simply faded away.· It is necessary to wage a firm ideological struggle against this revisionist current. 6.· Another appointee might have seen the ideological struggle about money for the arts as politics-as-usual.
WORD FAMILYnounideologyideologueadjectiveideologicaladverbideologically
based on strong beliefs or ideas, especially political or economic ideas: The party is split by ideological differences.—ideologically /-kli/ adverb