How to Use hard-line in a Sentence

hard-line

adjective

• The hard-line approach has sometimes drawn rebukes from the bench.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2023
• That, instead, Israel needs to be much more hard-line about it, right?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• The most hard-line right-wing members of the government opposed any agreement with Hamas.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Everybody’s going to judge the crap out of the movie and have very passionate, hard-line opinions.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 July 2024
• The win for reformists is a turn from the hard-line presidency of Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 6 July 2024
• Raisi lost the election a year later to Hassan Rouhani, a less hard-line candidate.
  — James Hider, NPR, 20 May 2024
• Click here to read more about Harris cooling her approach to hard-line climate change ideas.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
• This time, Netanyahu signaled a more hard-line response.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Yet for the more hard-line thinkers in the jihadi movement, this compromise approach to Hamas did not work.
  — Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
• But without top talent on board, hard-line back-to-the-office mandates may backfire.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• On Wednesday, Schumer relented on his hard-line stance.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• All Democrats chose to oust the former speaker, and a handful of hard-line Republicans voted against him as well.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2023
• Still, Netanyahu’s hard-line allies pressed him to continue on.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• When the relationship began to fracture in the late 1980s, only the hard-line Stalinists shed any tears.
  — Sergey Radchenko, NPR, 19 June 2024
• My sense is Purdy will not make a hard-line stand for a record contract, but agree to a more team-friendly structure, in Tom Brady-esque fashion.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
• But, in recent weeks, the state’s hard-line supporters had grown angry, and mobilized.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Some hard-line members of Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition, meanwhile, cheered on the revenge attacks on Huwara.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
• Since then, Kaiser Health News has learned that the Democratic governor must compromise on his hard-line tweet.
  — Samantha Young, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
• In trying to placate his hard-line members, Johnson and other GOP leaders are fighting the last war.
  — Paul Kane, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• The cuts in the package are almost certainly both too modest to win the votes of hard-line conservatives, and too stringent to win the votes of progressives in the House.
  — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• Even in the years when the far right was considered toxic in much of the country, Toulon was partial to politicians who took a hard-line stance on immigration and crime.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
• However, China's hard-line take on AI could affect these stocks.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Johnson’s ascension to the speaker’s chair cements a fiercely pro-Trump, hard-line faction as the face of the national GOP.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The angry debate in the hard-line camp illustrates the depth of the challenge that the defiance poses to the Islamic Republic.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
• The addicting formula: Harvey is a hard-line senior partner who wants to win at all costs.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• On the campaign trail, Trump made hard-line border and immigration policies a central point of his pitch to voters.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
• In a recent interview with CNN, his rhetoric marked a stark contrast to his earlier, more hard-line statements.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
• Israel’s hard-line stance does not mean the wider world should avoid pivoting toward the question of Palestinian statehood once the cease-fire is secured.
  — Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
• Trump, who won the popular vote for the first time in three attempts, has continued to lay out his hard-line immigration agenda—a cornerstone of his campaign that propelled him back to the White House.
  — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
• There is no reason to pursue pointlessly hard-line policies in Latin America to appeal to a subset of the Florida electorate that is among the most Republican in the country.
  — Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024

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