A hard-line policy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The public reaction to the new hard-line has been mixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venezuela: The Forces Of Disorder] Reference

"It was one of the biggest death knells for the hard-line regime.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tipping Point] Reference

Even within Starr's hard-line staff, Bennett is considered a hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monica's Shake-Up] Reference

This is his best chance: the hard-line opposition has been wiped out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's Free-Market Offensive] Reference

And Malema isn't the only hard-line supporter Zuma has to contend with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiery Fringes] Reference

Meanwhile, hard-line Israelis were preparing provocations of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Israel Is It?] Reference

The president has always taken a hard-line view of the Stalinist leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Launch Response] Reference

Meanwhile, the country is run, sort of, by a coterie of "hard-line" aides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear Becomes Ursa Minor] Reference

And his new, hard-line foreign minister, Ariel Sharon, consented to the deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deal Makers] Reference

Ivan Rybkin, a hard-line communist, walked out of the building at precisely 5: 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollow Victory] Reference

Boyish looking and Western leaning, he failed to appease the hard-line communist core.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Saved Ballet] Reference

The Palestinian government-in-waiting all but declared war on its hard-line opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deal Makers] Reference

Experts, however, say the hard-line approach is punishing normal developmental behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Trouble For Show And Tell] Reference

Some Christians in China don't agree with the American right's hard-line approach either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pray For China] Reference

But Xhaferi is ailing, and any replacement would likely be a hard-line Albanian nationalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Balkan Domino?] Reference

Israel has long struggled to find the balance between hard-line and more moderate approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

But Shimrit Orr expects more assaults in the years ahead from one hard-line group or another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Israel Is It?] Reference

GAM has added to its woes by imposing hard-line Islamic law even as it plays by rules of its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear And Loathing] Reference

Its hard-line, theocratic government poses the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East today.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Should Talk to Our Enemies] Reference

This hard-line intelligence organization is strong and has powerful support within the establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  ['There Is No Other Way'] Reference

Primal enterprise (mafia-ridden, to be sure) appears supple enough to outlast any "hard-line" faction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear Becomes Ursa Minor] Reference

But given the hard-line attitudes of both the Serbs and the Albanians, showing up may be an achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Time To 'Get Serious'] Reference

As for Obama, it is yet to be seen how the dovish American would work with a hard-line Israeli counterpart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prospect Of An Odd Couple] Reference

But a hard-line conservative leadership dominates the debate, thanks largely to its strong links to the Vatican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking On The Church] Reference

China's film output has dropped by half since hard-line officials were assigned to clean up culture early this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banned In Beijing] Reference

Abrams cemented that hard-line position and took control of Middle East policy as the region moved toward war in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars Through Arab Eyes] Reference

At the Arab summit this week, Arab leaders made hard-line statements on Israel and agreed to revive the boycott office.    From Wordnik.com.  ['It Is Out Of Control'] Reference

The departing president has spent the past eight years in a losing battle to break the hard-line mullahs 'grip on power.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHALLENGING THE MULLAHS] Reference

But leaders of both groups insist they are "moderates" who reject the hard-line Shiism espoused by the Iranian theocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A FREE-FOR-ALL] Reference

"" We will have a war whenever it's necessary, '' says Gani Koci, a senior KLA commander from the hard-line area of Drenica.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Time To 'Get Serious'] Reference

Still, Khatami faces huge challenges in winning over the hard-line bureaucrats who wield some of the real power in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moving Forward] Reference

All anyone said then was that he was too young to fight in the 17-year rebellion against the north's hard-line Islamic government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sons Of Carnage] Reference

Critics have described the proceedings as an attempted "judicial coup" mounted by hard-line believers in Ataturk's secular principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy in the Dock] Reference

During the last 10 years, the trend among the Palestinians has been to move away from hard-line attitudes and to embrace moderate ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Polls: What the Palestinians Really Voted For] Reference

Germany's fastest-growing party is Die Linke, a hard-line leftist organization that won 15 percent of the vote in last year's elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware the European Street] Reference