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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Denmark’s hard-line stance does not apply to everyone seeking refuge.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • McCarthy may have held off his right flank for now, but the unrest among hard-line conservatives isn't likely to evaporate.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • The government has tried to force the absentees back to their posts with threats of legal punishment, a hard-line strategy that appears to have backfired.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • In the months since that movement started, the group has taken an increasingly hard-line stance against Israel, advocating for violent uprisings against the country.
    David Goldman, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But the apocalyptic tone and hard-line policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements.
    Molly Redden, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2024

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