One reading is the crude image of the screwdriver as a western ideological "tool" used to "fix" the "broken" condition (Zhaboonigan is mentally handicapped) of the Indian.

Now approached as ideological tools, books became graphically more logical and symmetrical.

Since religion was the ideological tool that kept the system in place, Lenin believed atheistic propaganda to be of critical necessity.

They see the court as too important to be turned into an ideological tool to take the country backward.

His works have been used as ideological tools by a wide variety of groups including irredentists, Serbian nationalists and Communists.

Stalin was also the first Russian ruler to introduce sports as an ideological tool, a kind of opium of the masses.

Education is often used as an ideological tool by regimes of very different political persuasions, and sometimes itself becomes a site of political conflict.

We cannot pretend that in protecting human rights, we never use them as an ideological tool of anti-Americanism.

Using advertisements and related ideological tools of consumerism, this study examines those modernized constructions of traditional gender roles.

Scholars have referred to the term as "derisive" and a "handy ideological tool".