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US
/ˈhɑɹdˌɫaɪn/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːdlaɪn/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːdlaɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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firm and uncompromising
a hard-line policy
How To Use hardline In A Sentence
- The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday.
- Indeed, it was not at all clear that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could control the hardliners in their own countries.
- The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
- Justice demands a hardline approach. Times, Sunday Times
- Since then, his reforms have largely been stymied by theological and political hardliners.
- Since then, his reforms have largely been stymied by theological and political hardliners.
- However, the pink revolution failed with the victory of a hardliner.
- But not all of us are familiar with the street lingo of hardline hackers. Exploring language (6th edn)
- This section will be familiar to anyone who has followed recent events, so I have omitted it and also because it is the weakest and most poorly-written part of the paper, referring to Lu Hsiu-lien as a "hardliner" and using the Chinese code term "de-sinicization. Archive 2008-08-01
- Fellow IFP MP Walter Felgate, labelled a hardliner, said the party's democratisation included necessary checks and balances to stop abuses of power under the new party arrangement. ANC Daily News Briefing