All this goes to show Ms. Fulani's talent for both ideological consistency and picking a winner.

Santorum also gained the confidence of several evangelical religious leaders and Sarah Palin for his "ideological consistency".

Taking ideological consistency to an absurd extreme, House Republican leaders are putting their aversion to "big government" ahead of the nation's security needs.

He served briefly in the Reagan administration, where his duties included reviewing potential judicial appointments and vetting them for ideological consistency with the administration's policies.

But he may also be less wedded to ideological consistency, which Mr. Bush usually demands from the people beneath him.

Rigid ideological consistency had never been a strong suit of the *Whole Earth Catalog.

I was thinking of it in terms of trying to get back to an ideological consistency.

Strong ideological consistency was uncommon in Japanese politicians, and the book had considerable impact.

"Ligachev's job is to insure ideological consistency, so he stresses that side, but it doesn't mean he opposes Gorbachev's program," one official said.

Champions of realpolitik, the two men deliberately favored cool-headed calculation of national interests over ideological consistency.