As a result, in no part of the Muslim world was an ideological challenge ever mounted against slavery.

Nothing suggests that the church has any interest in launching an ideological challenge to the state, even if it could.

Mr. Jiang does not seem bothered so much by the ideological challenges of free enterprise in a socialist country as by the practical political problems.

By 1000 they had become the chief political and ideological challenge to Sunni Islam in the form of the Abbasids.

U.A.W executives now are facing a raucous political and ideological challenge at their convention from dissident members opposed to the union's strategy of cooperation, nicknamed "jointness."

The ideological challenge represented by rival television stations, Mr. Hassan said, pales before other problems that peace might bring.

Say the West has won, that fascism and Communism are dead, that no significant ideological challenges are on the horizon - then what?

Liberalism also survived major ideological challenges from new opponents, such as fascism and communism.

To its neighbors and the United States, Nicaragua is a military and ideological challenge.

Japan poses no ideological challenge the way Communism did.