indoctrinated

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The army has refused to take in hardened guerrillas whom it views as politically indoctrinated, and also accuses the Maoists of not fulfilling commitments to dismantle the paramilitary structure of their feared youth wing.

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  1. transitive verb To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.
  2. transitive verb To imbue with a partisan or ideological point of view: a generation of children who had been indoctrinated against the values of their parents.

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  • And that conventional wisdom was taught - indoctrinated, perhaps ... —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • Similarly indoctrinated, these people oppose all forms of energy production except those-wind and solar-least capable of providing the billions of megawatts the nation needs. —  The Reality Check
  • Your children must join The Movement to be indoctrinated, and that's that. —  Eidelblog
  • "If present trends persist, the next generation of the world's most sophisticated terrorists will be born, indoctrinated, and trained in a nuclear-armed Pakistan," he wrote. —  Ledger-Enquirer: Big Breaking News
  • He accused churches of targeting "vulnerable people" and claimed his grandson Simon was being "indoctrinated" by Christianity. —  Telegraph Blogs
 

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