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n. - A conservative who is uncompromising.

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  • Nam is well known as a hardliner -- some progressive groups in South Korea refer to him as a "neocon warmonger."
  • Focusing on Lieberman (charitably called by the Guardian a "hardliner") dis
  • Farahanipour: I'm not sure; anyone that is not considered a "hardliner" is automatically labeled as a reformist.
  • Considered a "hardliner" during this period, he has been cast as a reformist and a modernizer in an appeal to the Iranian middle classes.
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