1 He needs to persuade the hard-liners in the cabinet.

2 Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.

3 Unionist hardliners warned the U.S. President he would not be welcome.

4 It seems the President has given way to pressure from the hardliners.

5 Given the results of the vote, is this the end of the road for the hardliners in Congress?

6 The only victors in a head-on clash between the president and the assembly would be the hardliners on both sides.

7 The fragile peace was hanging by a thread as thousands of hardliners took to the streets.

8 Cuban-American hardliners continue to reject any dealings with Castro.

9 Reformists, closet-reformists and non-party intellectuals gathered in his home, feeding him their ideas and plotting against hardliners.

10 The Prime Minister has been criticized by hardliners in his party for giving away too much in the treaty.

11 The significance of equality of sexes was merely advocated by ideological hardliners.

12 Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.

13 The two December marches by right-wing women were important public relations exercises in support of hardliners in the government.

14 Reformist leaders have told the public to remain calm to deprive hardliners in the security forces of any pretext for violent action.

15 The hard-liners have not vanished, and the political battles ahead will be intense.

16 This trend of senior hardliners revising their position following Deng's re-endorsement of reformism continued during July.

17 Afterwards liberal deputies expressed their relief that things had turned out as they had, while hardliners were correspondingly downcast.

18 Neither had Khrushchev,[] who also had hard-liners in Moscow pushing him toward the brink.

19 Indeed, it was not at all clear that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could control the hardliners in their own countries.

20 But now he was a Cold War hard-liner, and Joe wanted to hear what he had to say.

21 Yesterday's clear-out removed the last of the hardliners from the politburo.

22 (He had worked for Sobchak.) Or a hard-liner?

23 Usually I'm a hard-liner when it comes to insurance.

24 Mr. Reagan campaigned in 1980 as a hard-liner , promising to restore U. S. prestige and to stand up to the Russians and other adversaries in every corner of the world.

25 In the Kayhan newspaper, prominent hard-liner Hossein Shariatmadari wrote that the chances of the mistranslation having been an accident were "close to nil".

26 He'll probably face the President in combat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner who's expected to seek re-election.

27 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.

28 He is the real "leader" of the army, applying pressure on all policy issues — even foreign affairs — and is thought to be more of a hard-liner than his brother, and is said to be hot-tempered.