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Definition of hard line in English: hard linenoun An uncompromising adherence to a firm policy. he is known to take a hard line on sentencing policy for murder Example sentencesExamples - Yorkshire's committee decided last week to take a hard line and tell Gough that they expected him to see out the remaining year of his contract.
- Will China suggest Australia compromise its hard line free trade position to attend the Summit?
- Under common attack, more moderate factions are forced to commit to the extreme hard line, whether they like it or not.
- Molotov favoured a continuation of the hard line in foreign policy, especially towards Tito.
- He endorses a hard line on abortion in the platform, but he welcomes pro-choice people in the party.
- They may split the vote in a way that favours someone such as Maureen Gilroy who takes a hard line against issues of social equity.
- Soe Win is believed to espouse a hard line against Suu Kyi's movement and with foreign critics who favour democracy.
- Bosses at a Salford secondary school with one of the highest truancy rates in the country say they take a hard line on absences other schools would ignore.
- In the end King Birendra resisted the hard line and conceded before the massive peoples' movement for democracy.
- I know that Sharon is a hard line politician who won't give any ground, but the mood in Israel is changing and he won't be around forever.
- Why moderate your stance or reach out to the center when there is no penalty to pay for digging in your heels and taking a hard line?
- The company, based in James Street, has introduced the hard line tactics in a bid to clamp down on offenders who are determined not to pay their fares.
- This was the reason given last year for the government to take such a hard line over the rights of Muslim girls to wear the headscarf to school.
- For some it will confirm the view that a hard line was, and is, justified.
- The Minister's department have taken a hard line with social welfare fraudsters in recent years.
- Phil Gallie, the voice of social conservatism, believes a hard line on the clause will deliver votes in the Ayr by-election.
- Vodafone has taken a hard line with abusive text messages, threatening to disconnect offenders' phones.
- But Maldon officers are being forced to take an especially hard line on the problem because of the high level of incidents.
- Some fear the tough policy will deter people from coming to the city, while others argue ambassadors must take a hard line on those who break the rules.
- That issue has surfaced before and if the commission takes a hard line we could be looking at the demise of the entire sector before long.
adjective Uncompromising; strict. a hard-line party activist Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, Oliphant said Safa has noted with extreme concern the hard-line attitude of the city officials in Cape Town.
- He has the great advantage in politics of being popular with people who are not just hard-line members of his own party.
- The impasse is encouraging hard-line Unionists to target the rule as a critical flaw of the reforms they oppose.
- Blunkett, the hard-line hammer of the criminals, the bulwark against the terrorist threat, was the natural front man for such a campaign.
- One can only hope that Teheran's hard-line clerics haven't been reading the Washington Post.
- You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes.
- Patent litigation is expensive, and a large company can wear down almost anyone if it adopts a hard-line stance.
- Draganova is a member of the hard-line Stalinist Bulgarian Communist Party.
- Roger and his hard line crew at Woolies would fall about laughing!
- So why does he sound so much like a new-age hard-line feminist?
- The parallel British demilitarisation of the province, will also be tough on hard-line unionists.
- Radical and hard-line criticism was poured on senior teachers.
- The squatters were mostly from hard-line enclaves in the West Bank, not from Gaza settlements slated for evacuation.
- AK has publicly stated its commitment to the secular status of Turkey, but now it will have to destroy hard-line Islamist groups.
- These judges should not be hard-line ideologues for the controlling political party.
- If fuel prices continue to rise and the Government is not prepared to do something about fuel duty, then it had better look out, warn hard-line farmers.
- Too often, he failed to understand how he was perceived not by hard-line Democrats, but by the general public.
- As a result, politics has been dominated by hard-line ethnic parties ever since.
- But now, nobody's questioning, except a few hard-line pro-rights activists.
- Many of the madrassas were run by Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islami, one of Pakistan's main hard-line religious parties.
Synonyms uncompromising, strict, diehard, extreme, tough, inflexible, immoderate, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, undeviating, unwavering, single-minded, not giving an inch rare indurate
Definition of hard line in US English: hard linenounˈhɑrd ˈˌlaɪn An uncompromising adherence to a firm policy. he is known to take a hard line on sentencing policy for murder Example sentencesExamples - Will China suggest Australia compromise its hard line free trade position to attend the Summit?
- In the end King Birendra resisted the hard line and conceded before the massive peoples' movement for democracy.
- They may split the vote in a way that favours someone such as Maureen Gilroy who takes a hard line against issues of social equity.
- Bosses at a Salford secondary school with one of the highest truancy rates in the country say they take a hard line on absences other schools would ignore.
- This was the reason given last year for the government to take such a hard line over the rights of Muslim girls to wear the headscarf to school.
- Vodafone has taken a hard line with abusive text messages, threatening to disconnect offenders' phones.
- He endorses a hard line on abortion in the platform, but he welcomes pro-choice people in the party.
- That issue has surfaced before and if the commission takes a hard line we could be looking at the demise of the entire sector before long.
- But Maldon officers are being forced to take an especially hard line on the problem because of the high level of incidents.
- Some fear the tough policy will deter people from coming to the city, while others argue ambassadors must take a hard line on those who break the rules.
- I know that Sharon is a hard line politician who won't give any ground, but the mood in Israel is changing and he won't be around forever.
- The Minister's department have taken a hard line with social welfare fraudsters in recent years.
- Soe Win is believed to espouse a hard line against Suu Kyi's movement and with foreign critics who favour democracy.
- For some it will confirm the view that a hard line was, and is, justified.
- Phil Gallie, the voice of social conservatism, believes a hard line on the clause will deliver votes in the Ayr by-election.
- Under common attack, more moderate factions are forced to commit to the extreme hard line, whether they like it or not.
- The company, based in James Street, has introduced the hard line tactics in a bid to clamp down on offenders who are determined not to pay their fares.
- Yorkshire's committee decided last week to take a hard line and tell Gough that they expected him to see out the remaining year of his contract.
- Molotov favoured a continuation of the hard line in foreign policy, especially towards Tito.
- Why moderate your stance or reach out to the center when there is no penalty to pay for digging in your heels and taking a hard line?
adjectiveˈhɑrd ˈˌlaɪn hard-lineUncompromising; strict. a hard-line party activist Example sentencesExamples - Many of the madrassas were run by Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islami, one of Pakistan's main hard-line religious parties.
- If fuel prices continue to rise and the Government is not prepared to do something about fuel duty, then it had better look out, warn hard-line farmers.
- The impasse is encouraging hard-line Unionists to target the rule as a critical flaw of the reforms they oppose.
- Draganova is a member of the hard-line Stalinist Bulgarian Communist Party.
- Roger and his hard line crew at Woolies would fall about laughing!
- AK has publicly stated its commitment to the secular status of Turkey, but now it will have to destroy hard-line Islamist groups.
- As a result, politics has been dominated by hard-line ethnic parties ever since.
- Too often, he failed to understand how he was perceived not by hard-line Democrats, but by the general public.
- The squatters were mostly from hard-line enclaves in the West Bank, not from Gaza settlements slated for evacuation.
- But now, nobody's questioning, except a few hard-line pro-rights activists.
- Blunkett, the hard-line hammer of the criminals, the bulwark against the terrorist threat, was the natural front man for such a campaign.
- Meanwhile, Oliphant said Safa has noted with extreme concern the hard-line attitude of the city officials in Cape Town.
- You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes.
- Patent litigation is expensive, and a large company can wear down almost anyone if it adopts a hard-line stance.
- These judges should not be hard-line ideologues for the controlling political party.
- He has the great advantage in politics of being popular with people who are not just hard-line members of his own party.
- The parallel British demilitarisation of the province, will also be tough on hard-line unionists.
- One can only hope that Teheran's hard-line clerics haven't been reading the Washington Post.
- Radical and hard-line criticism was poured on senior teachers.
- So why does he sound so much like a new-age hard-line feminist?
Synonyms uncompromising, strict, diehard, extreme, tough, inflexible, immoderate, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, undeviating, unwavering, single-minded, not giving an inch
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