ideologue


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Synonyms for ideologue

an advocate of some ideology

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Researchers say he was the chief ideologue responsible for devising the Khmer Rouge's most brutal policies, notably at Tuol Sleng - or S-21 - prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.
It was said that the state government dropping the name of Upadhyay as the previous BJP government had named the test after RSS ideologue without giving any substantiate reason.
The idea of the individual and the nationalist; the translation of what is held by one and can be shared amongst many as a prominent ideologue never completely materialised.
'But Andanar, he's an ideologue. His guidance is very important to all of the PDP members.
VD Savarkar has been the major ideologue from whom most of the Hindu nationalists draw their inspiration.
He faces charges of being a Maoist ideologue in Telangana, Jharkhand and Punjab.
The Liberal Democrats have warned they will not accept a "Tory donor ideologue" to chair the watchdog amid reports that Theodore Agnew, an insurance magnate who worked closely with Mr Gove before the 2010 general election, was being lined up to replace the Labour peer, Baroness Morgan of Huyton.
Vaidya's revelation, however, found some support from within the BJP as its MP Kirti Azad endorsed the RSS ideologue's doubts.
Virtually no one in American politics has ever been proud to be an "ideologue." And when Americans have boasted of ascribing to an "ideology," it has typically been some sort of anti-ideology, such as pragmatism or "Americanism," ways of thinking presumably quite different from "alien" ideologies such as socialism, fascism, or communism.
Hassan al-Turabi, the leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), who became the regime's Islamist ideologue. Turabi was behind the introduction of Shari'a (Islamic law) in the north in 1991.
Speaking at an interaction in Kathmandu today, the Maoist ideologue underscored the need for consensus saying the constituent Assembly was the biggest achievement in the past 60 years.
Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818; ultra-protestant ideologue.
A Hamas terror "academy" in Gaza taught, among other things, techniques for abducting IDF soldiers and the philosophy of an al-Qaeda ideologue.
Byline: Former Bharatiya Janata Party ideologue K.N.