The bargain is essential to our form of democracy, which requires compromise and does not work when there are ideological certainties.

Once in the forest, the Khmer Rouge were prone to several extremely powerful psychological undercurrents that rather than soften their ideological certainties only intensified them.

Which just goes to show you that the real threat to our system of government is ideological certainty - no matter whose ideology happens to be at issue.

Thus modern conservatism, which began as a movement of personal liberation from the state and intellectual skepticism in response to ideological certainty, has become its precise opposite.

Too true, but one honest reporter against just about every other almost universal misinformation station, must be a factor for such stupid ideological certainty.

She sets out to discover America but never leaves the home of her ideological certainty.

"He is open to evidence and less likely to be driven by fads, or the ideological certainties that sped this administration off course," Mr. Nye said.

Lady Thatcher, as she now is, cast a spell as Prime Minister with her ideological certainty and scorn for the faint-hearted.

Any set of ideas can harden into ideological certainty, especially when it's been in power for a long time.

Julius is at first intimidated by Farouq's intellectual confidence and ideological certainty, but he is attracted by it, too.