But Iraq today is a messy, superheated reality that seems to defy neat ideological assumptions.

Here again it is a matter of ideological assumptions and the unit of study.

Her book is free of the triumphalism and the ideological assumptions so often found in American accounts of Russia's so-called transition period.

He approached Meetei culture and religion with a number of ideological assumptions.

Since then much theoretical work has been directed at this short-sighted empiricism, uncovering the pattern of cultural or ideological assumptions that supported it.

Equally important, it must always be emphasised that all approaches, here as elsewhere, are underpinned by a series of ideological assumptions and arguments.

Sometimes that means ideological assumptions or political preferences.

Some common ideological assumptions, both historical and modern, include:

Our intention was to try to understand anti-Americanism on the basis of its history, rather than trying to prove a pre-existing ideological assumption.

Naturally, the ideological assumptions behind this unilinear model have led to dismissive attitudes to 'non-standard' dialects.