A complicating factor was Furtwangler's ideological sympathy with aspects of the regime: a right-wing cultural nationalist, he, like the leftist Shostakovich, mistrusted the capitalist West.

Many of the HIG local commanders joined the Taliban "both out of ideological sympathy and for reason of tribal solidarity."

Tonga was, at the time, a quasi-absolute monarchy, with no ideological sympathy for communism.

However Iyer felt that Rushdie was quick to overlook Sandinista totalitarianism and censorship due to his ideological sympathies with their cause.

Back in the 60's, when my ideological sympathies were first shaped, practically everybody was considered a fascist, including your junior-high-school principal.

His ideological sympathies, however, are so baldly apparent that they undermine his story's credibility and result in flat, cartoony characters.

My father believed that the elder Kennedy coveted his job, which he was indeed highly qualified to fill, by experience, though not by ideological sympathies.

"Our ideological sympathies lay with Hamilton," Mr. Lewis said on behalf of Mr. Rohrabacher.

But since then nothing, or nearly nothing, has been done apart from a few reports here and there whose conclusions basically reflected the ideological sympathies of those who had commissioned them.

The Africanists, whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC, decided not to attend, asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee.