Crossword clues for hardline
Wiktionary
a. 1 uncompromising; rigidly holding to a set of beliefs 2 (context business English) belonging to a hardline (business noun sense); e.g. "hardline product" n. (context business English) a retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer
WordNet
adj. firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy" [syn: hard-line]
Wikipedia
Hardline is a radically regressive deep ecology subculture that has its roots in the straight edge hardcore scene and is notable for its opposition to LGBT equal rights, birth control and human sexual activity without the intent to procreate.
From an initial founding statement the movement attempted a break with the straight edge and hardcore scenes. The founding statement and subsequent literature pushed a biocentric view of the world, anti-abortion stance and much more extreme version of straight edge. Many hardline bands existed, the most well known of which were Vegan Reich and Raid.
Hardline is an American hard rock band. Originally formed in 1991 by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, the band consisted of five members, Johnny Gioeli, Joey Gioeli, Neal Schon, Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo. The band's most recent album is Danger Zone, which was released on May 18, 2012. Joey Gioeli has not appeared on a Hardline album since 2002's II. As of 2012, Johnny Gioeli remains the only original member of the band.
In politics, hardline refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being absolutist and sometimes authoritarian. The hardline position is often extremist and uncompromising.
The term hardliner can be synonymous with the term " hawk" and is often used in the pejorative sense. It can be used to refer to individuals within a political, special interest, or activist movement of almost any ideology.
A hardliner is someone who sticks to his point rigorously and does not adopt differing ideas quickly, or at all.
Category:Political terminology
Hardline is a political label.
Hardline or hardliner may also refer to:
- Hard Line (album), a 1985 album by American band The Blasters
- Hardline (band), an American hard rock group
- Hardliner (band), a Canadian hard rock band
- Hardline coaxial cable
- Hardline (subculture), a militant offshoot of straight edge
- Hardline video game, a video game developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment in 1996
- Battlefield Hardline, a video game published by Electronic Arts in 2015.
Hardline is a live-action FMV-based computer game developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment and Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1996.
This is a rail shooter with light adventure elements.
Usage examples of "hardline".
A note indicated that although her father was a hardline antigovernment activist, Taishan had had little contact with him since the death of her mother several months before recontract.
Organic Damage did some background digging and came up with a conversion less than ten months old and a hardline Catholic boyfriend with skills in infotech who might have faked the Vow.
Specialist technical and hardline teams being readied, transport priorities re-allocated, police and security personnel preparing to perform joint civilian control duties, keeping tourists and residents out of the way in case of an escalation, emergency services being brought to full stand-by status.
Their were many systems in place in case the hardlines were cut, but Rana was especially drawn to a colony of hardy, small, self-repairing machines that lived on the polar wastes around the facility.
She could worry about support and angle of thrust and oxygen ratios and carbon cycles and the balance of nutrients needed to keep the nanomachines functioning throughout the big ship's systems, and the fact that Alan was only half-done rewiring the ship's systems and it made things a little funky, working through the worldwire rather than over the hardlines as she'd been trained.
Once InterActors really got into improv to fit a good say-so, they tended to add in those possibilities the next time as if they were part of the hardline.
Perhaps life was like improv, becoming hardline when no one paid attention.