political fanaticism
political zealotry

"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly."

The catechism began again, and impossibly they were carried even higher on the wings of political fanaticism.

Political fanaticism at eighteen is rarely durable.

We live in a new security environment, with new threats, terrorism, unstable states, conflicts over the sharing out of natural resources, religious and political fanaticism.

The whole damned Luftwaffe was being mismanaged by political favouritism and political fanaticism.

"It just goes to show that Venezuelan pride in Oswaldo's achievements was able to beat out political fanaticism."

The authors wish to impress upon the audience the connections between religious and political fanaticism, between church and governmental corruption.

He limited himself to pleading in her defense "the exaltation of political fanaticism" that had placed the knife in her hand.

Terrorism, ignorance, religious and political fanaticism are, after all, no joking matters, as Mr. Kiefer well understands.

Besides, the political fanaticism that engulfed Shanghai in the 1960's and 70's discouraged wearing anything as bourgeois as clothing reserved for bedtime.

Religious and political fanaticism are problems wherever they are present, and nowhere are they more problematic than in Israel.

While Mr. Wei was in high school, however, an era of political fanaticism called the Cultural Revolution broke out, in 1966.

According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ferrie "...found an outlet for his political fanaticism in the anti-Castro movement."

In their written defense before the Constitutional Court, they declared that they were "against any sort of religious or political fanaticism" and "on the side of pluralist democracy, reconciliation and tolerance."

"It is social fanaticism," said Jamal Khashoggi, the deputy editor in chief of The Arab News, "but it takes just a few small adjustments to turn it into political fanaticism."

Talk story about Eric Hoffer, San Francisco longshoreman, whose book about political fanaticism "The True Believer," has been hailed by many reviewers as a triumph of mass-movement analysis.

Once again, however, sadly, a large proportion of Israeli society held aloof, that section of Israeli society which largely determines policy at present and is dominated by religious and, in some cases, political fanaticism.

It was a wonder that he had not been a victim of the ferocious and summary executions which marked the course of that tyranny; for Guzman had ruled the country with the sombre imbecility of political fanaticism.

Mr. Walker's credits also include "Fight Club," a genuinely daring effort to make sense of the violent impulses of buttoned-down young men, and to plumb those dangers found at the nexus of popular culture and political fanaticism.

Ecstasy in downtown Johannesburg at the very moment crowds outside the supreme court heard that Yanoush Valus and Clive Derby-Lewis, two men driven by cold political fanaticism to assassinate Chris Harney, had themselves been sentenced to death.

GDR leader Walter Ulbricht asked her to resign in 1967, ostensibly for health reasons but in reality because the Politburo felt that the political fanaticism that characterised her harsh verdicts impeded the GDR's desire for international recognition.

In the contests that broke out at the end of his rule (which had kept peace in the country for a whole fifteen years) there was more fatuous imbecility, plenty of cruelty and suffering still, but much less of the old-time fierce and blindly ferocious political fanaticism.

The essence of the Rocard style has been to speak little and do much, to furnish not so much a vision as an example of hard work to a nation that is manifestly weary of what the Prime Minister called "political fanaticism" - the partisan squabbling between right and left.

The Trumpet of God became so absorbed by his own words, that he lifted his gaze to the elaborate patterns of the fancy plastered ceiling and his eyes glazed over with a mixture of religious and political fanaticism, leaving Manfred free to glance around him furtively at the over-furnished room.

During the Cultural Revolution, the school was renamed Guangdong Red Flag School and later Guangdong Red Flag High School, an evident reflection of the political zealotry of the era.