9 sentences with 'ideology'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ideology and other words derived from it.
• « Secondly, the ideology surrounding the crusades was to inspire European explorers and conquerors for centuries. »
• « The most obvious example of this phenomenon was the Reconquista of Spain, which was explicitly seen through the lens of the crusade ideology of the time. In turn, the Reconquista was completed in 1492, precisely the same year that Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. »
• « That crusading ideology was easily adapted to the purposes of conquering vast American territories and forcibly converting the native inhabitants of the Americas to Christianity. »
• « Instead, the European elites of the time explained their own social role in terms of peace, tradition and stability. Their ideology was called conservatism: the idea that what had worked for centuries was inherently better at maintaining peace both within and between kingdoms than the forces unleashed by the French Revolution. »
• « In the 20th century it would also directly inspire Nazi ideology: Hitler himself quoted Gobineau in his own reflections on racial hierarchy. »
• « Their ideology, based on the writings of Saint-Simon, envisaged a society in which industrialism was harnessed to make a kind of paradise on earth, with the fruits of technology going to feed, clothe and house, potentially, everyone. They were, in a word, the first "technocrats", people who believe that technology can solve any problem. »
• « This resentment coalesced around the new political ideology of nationalism in the early 19th century: just as the "Germans" resented the conservative Austrian regime and the Poles detested the Russian and Prussian states that had divided Polish territory, the Greeks (as well as the Serbs, Croats and other Balkan peoples) increasingly saw themselves as autonomous peoples artificially ruled by a foreign power. »
• « There were some notable contrasts between the ideology of Victorian life and its lived reality. While much of the fear of social degeneration was exaggerated, it is also true that alcoholism became much more common (both because alcohol was cheaper and because urbanisation lent itself to casual drinking), and drug use became widespread. »