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hardline

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Adj.1.hardline - firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"
uncompromising, inflexible, sturdy - not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

hardline hard-line
adjective tough, extreme, strict, definite, uncompromising, single-minded, inflexible, diehard, unyielding, intransigent, immoderate, undeviating They've taken a lot of criticism for their hard-line stance.
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hardline hard-line [ˌhɑːrdˈlaɪn] adj [communist, republican, unionist] → pur(e) et dur(e); [policy, stance] → jusqu'au-boutiste, intransigeant(e)


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Hardline Communists are squaring off against a militant faction whose members advocate a more aggressive stance.
However, he meeting (which was closed to the public) was marked by a sharp exchange between Bishop Robinson and a well-known, hardline conservative bishop, Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh and ended with the two of them sitting down together in a group with about 10 other bishops.
Schwarzenegger has revamped Davis' hardline stance on paroles, pledged to reverse the no-win lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key-approach to crime reduction, put more emphasis on rehabilitation, and vowed to hold the line on state spending.
 
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