This wasn't shorthand for the notion of art as a political or ideological weapon, or entertainment as defense against despair.

In his book, as on the stump, Cain's main ideological weapon is biography.

As such it is a powerful ideological weapon for the revolution and construction.

Conflicting historical narratives and maps have been the ideological weapons of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Alliance was committed to economy in local government, and the rates issue had been an effective ideological weapon in the past.

Hence, film could be used as an important ideological weapon and the Communists needed it in their "great work" of destroying democracies).

Above everything, in enemy hands the documents would have been an ideological weapon beyond anything imaginable.

His writings thus remain a key ideological weapon in the battle over the fate of the Cuban nation.

I think it is high time that we pointed the finger at the people who provide the ideological weapons to arm them, the soundbites.

The credibility of the integration process, which is already being used by some as an ideological weapon, would be undermined.