They don't back down

Usage examples of hardliners.

I told him we wouldn’t look kindly on them being hardliners, that we wanted them to participate in the process of figuring this thing out.

Ma’am, it’s my opinion that the hardliners on the council are pushing for a more hawkish stance.

I think that Martok wants to strengthen the alliance, not weaken it, which is something that may cost him a little from some of the hardliners on the council, but which will ultimately work out for him.

Zife’s going straight to Martok during Tezwa had given the hardliners on the High Council all the excuse they’d needed to call for replacing Ambassador Lantar with K’mtok, an ally of Martok’s biggest enemy on the council, Kopek.

Communist hardliners in their time, and still hard in their hearts, they had seen their political ideologies and aspirations whittled away, Russia's status as a world leader diminished, and her armed might depleted to the point of decimation.

A core of Iraq hardliners formed around Indyk himself, Bruce Riedel (initially Indyk's director for Persian Gulf affairs and later the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East), and Mark Parris (the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East).