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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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The hardline elements ran away from us before we got to them, now we fully control the town.
But the centre-left leader, who relaxed the previous conservative government's policy of locking up boatpeople for years at a time, said he was taking a methodical, hardline approach to the problem.
On May 7, the Shebab, a hardline Islamist armed group, and Hezb al-Islam, a more political group, launched an unprecedented nationwide offensive against the administration of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
 
 
 
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