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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hardliner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cuban-American hardliners continue to reject any dealings with Castro.
▪ The Prime Minister has been criticized by hardliners in his party for giving away too much in the treaty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed, it was not at all clear that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could control the hardliners in their own countries.
▪ Reformists, closet-reformists and non-party intellectuals gathered in his home, feeding him their ideas and plotting against hardliners.
▪ Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.
▪ The significance of equality of sexes was merely advocated by ideological hardliners.
▪ The two December marches by right-wing women were important public relations exercises in support of hardliners in the government.
▪ This trend of senior hardliners revising their position following Deng's re-endorsement of reformism continued during July.
Wiktionary
hardliner

n. (alternative spelling of hard-liner English)

WordNet
hardliner

n. a conservative who is uncompromising

Usage examples of "hardliner".

Five hardliners, Bruce Parwez, Evan Hams, Jerry Masefield, Isabel Curtis, and Glen Ditchett to handle the arrests, they'd all had duty tours up at Zanthus before, knew how to handle themselves in free-fall.

There is some dispute about this, but some of the hardliners in the CRC say that Real cats don't go to catteries when their owners go on holiday, but are fed by a simple arrangement of bowls and neighbours.

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).