And so officials seek to distract people from their economic woes with ideological posturing and anti-Western rhetoric.
The author's ear for Iraqi despair, fury and violation is keen, even as he manipulates the book's ideological posturing to reflect different points of view.
Stop the ideological posturing and do something about standards.
There is plenty of room for ideological posturing in Colonel Cammermeyer's story, but in fact she does not fit easily into pigeonholes.
Dr. Vazquez, the new Mayor, is a 49-year-old cancer specialist and president of a popular soccer club who avoided ideological posturing before the election.
All the ideological posturing simply reinforces the creative stalemate that has gripped New York architecture in recent decades.
So there's some callow ideological posturing mixed in, too.
He was dismayed by ideological posturing.
Other writers, however, get carried away on the subject of political correctness, resorting to hyperbole and ideological posturing.
But since then ideological posturing has proved to be ruinous.