Sixteen of the cases, or 20 percent, were decided by 5-to-4 votes, and these were often the ideological battlegrounds.

If the conservatives have declared victory on the ideological battleground, others would like to deprive them of it.

The teaching and interpretation of Japan's modern history remains an ideological battleground, a subject all the more potent because it is so seldom discussed in public.

Laos, always fragile, has yet to recover from its role as ideological battleground.

Your morning cup of coffee happens to be an ideological battleground over the ethics of the global economy.

The world had become an ideological battleground where one was either for or against communism-no room for middle ground.

Industry had become an ideological battleground, caught in the left-right crossfire.

The briefs from the conservative religious organizations depict the school environment as an ideological battleground.

All parties in the conflict regard education in its broadest sense as part of an ideological battleground.

Whatever else those comparative sales figures mean, they do not mean that the best-seller list has suddenly become an ideological battleground.