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ADJECTIVE
  1. firm and uncompromising
    a hard-line policy

How To Use hard-line In A Sentence

  • But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
  • The president vacillates between the two (hard-line and moderate) camps.
  • Though old-line, hard-line feminism has little appeal for today's women, its ideology lives on in law and policy - like light rays from a dead star.
  • For hard-line Republicans, the word 'liberal' had become a pejorative term.
  • The hard-liners have not vanished, and the political battles ahead will be intense.
  • And neither is capable of outfoxing the hard-liners in an interagency power struggle.
  • In assembly elections last November, the erstwhile mainstream parties were beaten by the hard-liners -- Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and the DUP, led by the loyalist, anti - "popery" firebrand Ian Paisley. MARCHING TOWARD CIVILITY
  • He needs to persuade the hard-liners in the cabinet.
  • Councils in Bolton and Manchester have also recently come under fire with calls from politicians to get a grip of wardens whose hard-line approach is antagonising motorists and driving shoppers out of the towns.
  • That "backlash" is unlikely to materialise, mainly because the core Eurosceptics in the parliamentary party are well aware that the Cameroonies – and Francis Maude in particular - would welcome a showdown, with hard-liners storming out of the party. The advancing tide of disillusionment
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