1.  An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.

2.  The small Democratic Socialist Party -- whose ideological position was to the right of the LDP -- also pledged its support to the government.

3.  But he has an open-mindedness that makes one think he would look at issues as president without frozen ideological positions.

4.  But they were sticking Tuesday to long-held ideological positions on other issues, especially on tax cuts.

5.  For starters, his positions themselves hold less hope for bipartisan compromise than his words, which may be fig leaves covering very conservative ideological positions.

6.  He himself had fought some Clinton nominees because of their ideological positions.

7.  If the ideological positions of Democrats and Republicans in Congress in those days were plotted on a graph, the result would be two largely overlapping bell curves.

8.  If the ideological positions of lawmakers were plotted today, the Democratic coordinates would be bunched on the left and Republican ones on the right.

9.  Instead, Ashcroft is opposed for his ideological positions, such as opposition to abortion, and for a series of actions he took as a U.S. senator.

10.  Many have entrenched ideological positions which, if confined to an ivory tower, might be amusing.