What is "hard-liners"

Usage examples of "hard-liners".

Nevertheless, the strike was considered an important victory by the hard-liners within the U.

Once again, the threat of the Iranian bugbear, coupled with the strong sense that the administration's approach to containment was working (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) quashed the efforts of the hard-liners to push U.

The hard-liners concluded that the United States was at a critical juncture: the administration could adopt a policy of aggressive regime change in the hope of capitalizing on Saddam's current weakness, or else its position would inevitably weaken and it would find itself fighting a long rearguard action in defense of containment.

The hope of Washington's hard-liners was to convince the administration to respond with force to help further destabilize Saddam's regime.

In Washington, the hard-liners pressed for the United States to mediate actively, fearing that inter-Kurdish warfare would further weaken the U.

Originally, the speech had been the brainchild of the administration hard-liners and was intended to focus on the need for regime change in Iraq.

Too many factions, like the hard-liners in the military, who hadn't been heard from.

Since the collapse of the Commonwealth and the restoration of the Soviet Union, the struggle between hard-liners in the military and the KGB against liberal reformers and breakaway ethnic, religious, and political groups had been turning Soviet government into a precarious balancing act.

The President of the new Union had started out as little more than a front man for the military hard-liners who had reestablished the central authority, but lately he had been striking out on his own, often in direct opposition to military interests.

The view among the hard-liners, including Wolfowitz, was that Blix was weak and would be pushed around by Saddam.

Lenin was under pressure from his hard-liners, who wanted the entire family eliminated, and his people were talking to the Germans, who insisted on the safety of the women, but regarded the death of the tsar as an internal Russian affair.