ideology

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Officials and experts told AFP this week that Saudi Arabia has largely neutralised suspected al-Qaeda militants but that they cannot be written off so long as their ideology is alive.

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  1. noun The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.
  2. noun A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.

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  • What is largely not appreciated by observers of the European scene is that the ideology is already in place. —  theTrumpet.com: Front Page
  • That sociologists resist this is evidence that their ideology is an obstacle to good science. —  South Dakota Politics
  • Hey i know that inside the SFI and the CPM there is no democracy they claim, also they do not remain consistent to what they term their ideology. —  Kafila
  • The result of this ideology was a set of bubble economies built on debt-financed real estate and stock market inflation. —  Vive Le Canada - All Stories - Vive Le Canada
  • This is a bizarre form of compliment from a detractor of Mrs. Palin - using her name to label a tradition in American ideology that's been "around since the Founding Fathers," which he admits is an "inspirational notion, however flawed in execution, that has buttressed the global spread of liberty." —  Pajamas Media
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  1. French idéologie : idéo-, ideo- + -logie, -logy.

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  1. Also, less correctly, idealogy; from French idíologie = Spanish ideologia = Portuguese Italian ideologia, from Greek ἰδέα, idea, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/aɪdəˈɑlədʒi/
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