ADJECTIVE
  1. firm and uncompromising
    a hard-line policy
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How To Use hard-line In A Sentence

  • However, former-KGB head Yuri Andropov proved to be a hard-line Soviet Communist Party general-secretary despite supposedly loving jazz, poetry and whiskey.
  • Coalition hard-liners have been trying to sabotage a pullback.
  • The April 12 attack was "Tet" - like in impact in a country where every day is like "Tet" proving war there is unwinnable to everyone but Bush hard-liners yet to come around as well as being blind to see nowhere and no one in Iraq is safe. "Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
  • Therefore, there was strong pressure on chief constables to adopt a hard-line approach from within their own institution.
  • The hard-line antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd yesterday raised the stakes in the Antarctic whaling crisis, saying it was about to attack the Japanese whaling fleet and could lose its own ship…. The Whale Warriors
  • Cell I illustrates the situation where the government chooses continued hard-line rule and the opposition openly confronts the government.
  • The hard-line cleric said as a result the country, bounded by several fault lines, experienced more “calamities” such as earthquakes, the reformist Aftab-e Yazd newspaper reported him saying. Women Who Incite Extramarital Sex ‘Cause More Earthquakes’ Claims Iranian Cleric | Impact Lab
  • They visited areas plagued by conflict: Ambon, West Papua formerly known as Irian Jaya, and Aceh, where Muslim hard-liners were fighting for a separate Islamic state: Both of them were impressed by the lack of security, the support and extent of Muslim population and the obscurity provided by the density of the forests. Seeds of Terror
  • They are bullheaded enough, hard-line enough for their own ideological prejudices to carry the day in the end.
  • The split broke out into the open on July 25, 1979, when the leftist paper Lotta Continua published a long document that had been left anonymously at their offices by "workerist" Brigadists and that severely criticized Curcio and other hard-line Brigadists for pursuing a terrorist policy of "provocation. Terror in Italy: An Exchange
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