How To Use Hard-line In A Sentence
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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
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The president vacillates between the two (hard-line and moderate) camps.
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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.
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For hard-line Republicans, the word 'liberal' had become a pejorative term.
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The hard-liners have not vanished, and the political battles ahead will be intense.
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And neither is capable of outfoxing the hard-liners in an interagency power struggle.
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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
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He needs to persuade the hard-liners in the cabinet.
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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.
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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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The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
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Paisley, on the other hand, who has consistently condemned violence from both sides in the 'troubles', is a 'hard-liner'.
Archive 2004-11-28
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a hard-line policy
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In the Likud, it's much more heterogeneous in that you've got hard-liners and hard bargainers.
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BOND (voice-over): The al Qaeda links, say regional security sources, are to a hard-line Islamic fundamentalist group called Al - Ittihad.
CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2001
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In Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi called it "regretful" that all sides were hard-line in their campaigns.
Fascist Rule in Israel
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Hard-liners on both sides have been stepping up calls to abandon the armistice.
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The new hard-line government brought 'normalization': a return to dogmatism, to censorship and oppression, yet now with minimal terror.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They are the crown prince, known as the most moderate among the group; the prime minister, who is said to be extremely wealthy, but whose power has ebbed as popular anger at him has peaked; and the minister of the Royal Court, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed, known as the hard-liner of the trio, according to opposition leaders.
NYT > Global Home
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The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions.
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The United States has taken a lot of criticism for its hard-line stance.
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While the first line of Wall Street's defense of its dictatorship is the more openly right wing, hard-line approach of trying to downplay and attack Occupy Wall Street thru any and all physical, political and media means, the next stage of defense will be subtler- and Democrat-led: try to divide and coopt the movement.
Roberto Lovato: Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations
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Most Westerners made the mistake of classing Dr. Salama with the hard-line Islamists.
Day of Honey
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The City's response from Corporation Counsel Georges was unusual in its rapidity and in diametric contrast to its usual hard-line stance against protesters.
Andy Thayer: Important Legal Victory for Chicago LGBT Rights Activists and Secularists
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Both Mr. Karroubi and candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, two so-called reformist candidates running against the hard-line conservative Mr. Ahmadinejad, are trying to woo young, middle-class voters, who have grown disenchanted with politics in recent voting.
Iranian Candidate Turns to Twitter
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Mr. Bayik is known as a hard-liner in the organization and a supporter of old-style revolutionary Marxist, the initial ideology of the PKK.
Turkish Leader Defends Military After Deaths
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One of Mousavi's Web sites said a student protester was killed early Monday during clashes with plainclothes hard-liners in Shiraz, southern Iran.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15)
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In both states, O'Reilly has a loyal following among hard-line conservatives.
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You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes.
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Mr. Bini Smaghi is considered one of the ECB's top economists and is a hard-liner against inflation.
Italy's Bank Pick Rattles the ECB
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Meanwhile, frustrations over violence and insecurity have been manipulated in such a way that a majority of Jamaicans supports hard-line policing and punishment (including the reactivation of capital punishment).
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The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
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And you know as well as I do that those sentiments aren't just confined to a few hard-liners in the military.
CODE BREAKER
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Mr. Lieberman, known as a hard-liner toward the Palestinians, could face charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust in connection with private business dealings during his tenure as a member of parliament and a cabinet minister, according to Israel's Justice Ministry.
Corruption Indictment Threatens Israeli Foreign Minister
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Pym delivered a hard-line speech denouncing the king's trade embargo and playing the religion card: the king's armies, he alleged, were riddled with papists.
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Amidror is known as a hard-liner who opposed Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
The Seattle Times
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With respect to China, it is true that September 11 did block movement toward a new hard-line policy from Washington that some administration hawks may have wanted.
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The United States has taken a lot of criticism for its hard-line stance.
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Particularly in infrastructure, I agree with the book's hard-line premise that the two-parties are both "colluding in a power-sharing agreement at the expense of the rest of us.
Jigar Shah: What Obama and Global Governments Can Do to Promote Growth
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They call Sami ul Haq the "Father of the Taliban," one of Pakistan's most well-known and hard-line Islamists.
Breaking News: CBS News
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The hard-line confrontation between the United States and Russia, the United States rentier horn mounted on the reunification of the war.
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You think Zeppelin releasing a Greatest Hits cd is the complete literal opposite of their hard-line stance against people listening to their songs individually instead of in album form?
Led Zeppelin Makes Bold, Artistic Decision to Put Catalogue Online to Promote Greatest Hits Album | Best Week Ever
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He is also a hard-line opponent of Turkey's bid to join the European Union because, he has warned, it is an Islamic country and would dilute Europe's Christian heritage.
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Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.
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The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
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The criticism is a change of focus for hard-liners, who have spent the last few weeks lambasting Mousavi and his supporters for challengingthe presidential election.
Undefined
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The trial has become a target for protests by hard-line Muslim groups who have adopted pornography as a banner issue, claiming it symbolises what they have called the nation's moral decline.
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One hard-liner, Lt.Gen. Muhammed Aziz, was shifted from his post as the power-ful corps commander in Lahore to a cere-monial position as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
A Fine Balance
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For the first time, Greenpeace is devoting two ships to the antiwhaling campaign, and the hard-line group Sea Shepherd is also sailing to confront the fleet with its vessel Farley Mowat, raising the prospect of the whaling program being severely disrupted.
The Whale Warriors
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With elections coming up in Israel, I assumed Hama's was trying to defeat Prime Minister Peres and provoke the Israelis to elect a hard-line government that would not make peace with the PLO.
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The Pakistani army has detained a brigadier at army headquarters in Rawalpindi for alleged links with a banned Islamic hard-line group, Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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Patent litigation is expensive, and a large company can wear down almost anyone if it adopts a hard-line stance.
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With elections coming up in Israel, I assumed Hama's was trying to defeat Prime Minister Peres and provoke the Israelis to elect a hard-line government that would not make peace with the PLO.
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Kakudji-the president's closest adviser and hardest of hard-liners-offered himself as successor, according to several accounts.
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But Mr. Modi's hard-line championing of Hinduism also makes him a controversial figure in this religiously diverse country.
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The United States has taken a lot of criticism for its hard-line stance.
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Kakudji-the president's closest adviser and hardest of hard-liners-offered himself as successor, according to several accounts.
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Two prominent antagonists were Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, representing hard-line clerical authority, and sociologist and activist Ali Shariati, representing, according to John Esposito, "a more nonclerical, innovative, creative reformist approach.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: Iran: One Revolution at a Time
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With the door open to so many options, hawks and hard-liners of many stripes have been arguing for a wide range of punitive military strikes.
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He needs to persuade the hard-liners in the cabinet.
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But a senior U.S. diplomat in Kabul said "there is some thinking going on in Washington" now about being more open to reconciliation, even to Karzai's proposed outreach to Taliban leaders that the Pentagon has described as unreconcilable, including hard-line chief Mullah Mohammad Omar.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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However, former-KGB head Yuri Andropov proved to be a hard-line Soviet Communist Party general-secretary despite supposedly loving jazz, poetry and whiskey.
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And Waters warns of another possibility: A split field consisting of Allen and a passel of hard-liners might well lure a moderate into the race.
Allen best be wary of the grass roots
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This year, a century after Mark Twain's death in 1910, the University of California Press is posthumously publishing "The Autobiography of Mark Twain," a three-volume 'unexpurgated' collection that promises never-before-seen glimpses into a man who continues to defy hard-lined definitions.
Apartment Therapy Main
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If people begin honest dialogues with others they are predisposed to trust, they might be less inclined to take a hard-line position in the broader gun debate.
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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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They are bullheaded enough, hard-line enough for their own ideological prejudices to carry the day in the end.
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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
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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
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Cell I illustrates the situation where the government chooses continued hard-line rule and the opposition openly confronts the government.
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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
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Therefore, there was strong pressure on chief constables to adopt a hard-line approach from within their own institution.
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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"
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Coalition hard-liners have been trying to sabotage a pullback.
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Some clerics have publicly criticized al-Shabab's militant stance on AMISOM, highlighting a widening rift between moderate and hard-line Islamists on the way forward.
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This has enabled hard-line Unionists to mount their wrecking operation.
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The sharp attack by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari effectively labels Khatami and others as potential foes of the ruling system and could place them at higher risk of being directly punished by hard-line authorities, which would be a major escalation of the postelection confrontation.
Undefined
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Immigration hard-liner Tom Tancredo got in the race as a third-party candidate and couldn't overcome Hickenlooper's widespread popularity.
Hickenlooper Defeats Tancredo In Colorado Governor's Race
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They bolted at the hard-line views of Pat Buchanan and said Bob Dole lacked vision.
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This group of lawyers is as renowned for fearsome intellect as it is for hard-line conservative politics.
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But despite all the baggage, the immigration hard-liner is running a solid campaign for governor as a third-party candidate and is within the margin of error in several recent polls.
Tancredo: Barack Obama Is A Greater Threat To The U.S. Than Al Qaeda
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However, he alienated hard-line loyalists without offering substantive concessions to the Ulster Catholics.
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After his election Gregory X set out some hard-line regulations for future elections: his 1274 constitution Ubi periculum contains the first use of the word conclave—from the Latin cum clavis, “with a key.”
Delizia!
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Resistance from regime hard-liners kneecapped his efforts to reform the Libyan economy, and he reportedly tried to resign as head of economic planning on several occasions before leaving in early 2010.
Key Libyan Rebel Leader Is Quick Diplomatic Study
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Conservatives ran virtually unopposed in the election after the hard-line Guardian Council disqualified thousands of reformist candidates.
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Not surprisingly, the elections did just that, bringing into office hard-line nationalists who oppose interethnic cooperation.
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They want to show the difference" between Mr. Lee's hard-line stance and the conciliatory position of the previous two presidents.
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In Minois' account, the questions raised towards the end of the sixteenth century were met in the seventeenth by an increasingly hard-line response within law, the clergy, and certain forms of thought such as casuistry.
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They met on the border between Israel and Gaza, then Arafat took them to his guest house for lunch, making the hard-liner Netanyahu the first Israeli prime minister to go into Palestinian Gaza.
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Hard-liners say settlements and outposts reinforce their claim to Biblical lands.
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Surprisingly, GOP has some sane ones who can engender a marriage between hard-line ultra-right wingers, and loosey-goosey liberals, and take a middle course, until atleast the problem is being addressed.
Crist announces big fundraising haul
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The lack of progress has hardened feelings of embitterment and emboldened hard-line rejectionists on both sides of the divide.
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Rather than continuing with the successful, hard-line tactics of his predecessor, the popular Álvaro Uribe, Mr. Santos has allowed the FARC and other illegal groups to fester and refortify, according to the perception of many throughout Colombia.
Colombian President Overhauls Military
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There's no question that he is among the last, if not the last, of his genre of old-line, hard-line Marxist-Leninist leaders.
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He may have recanted on the hard-line economics, but people here still regard him as one of the leaders of the English party.
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Chelmsford's new detective inspector has vowed to purge the town of criminals through a hard-line proactive attitude to crime.
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I had read about Vorster and knew he was a hard-liner.
The Good Fight
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Hard-liners formed a radical political party, more extremist than any other.
