ideologue

Roosevelt was no ideologue. He had denounced the budget deficits of his Republican predecessor when running for president in 1932.

Yet this seems to have sparked little or no self-reflection on their part, as befitting the committed ideologue.

Ronald Reagan devoted a great deal of energy to persuading people that he was not a trigger-happy ideologue.

Ahmadinejad's reputation as a religious ideologue prompted worries that he would enforce social strictures with renewed vigour.

"Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. "

The Italian has never really been an ideologue, no matter how dictatorial his body language might be.

Are these the signs of a flexible man, a pragmatist rather than an ideologue ?

Mr Spence is no fire-breathing ideologue, but he clearly believes the world trusts too much in laissez-faire and not enough in government.

He does not give the sense that he is an ideologue on paywalls.

He is a realist and compromiser who seeks the middle way, not a liberal ideologue.

Ms Rice is no ideologue.

But he has a deep war chest to dip into and, now, a Republican opponent whom he can try to depict as a dangerous ideologue.

Nor is the author a left-wing ideologue.

It is true that the Brothers produced Ayman al-Zawahiri, now Osama bin Laden's number two and chief ideologue;