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But on Sunday evening Cuomo struck a less hardline tone, saying returning healthcare workers could be quarantined at home and receive twice-daily monitoring from medical professionals.
The conservatives' latest manoeuvre, described on article 50, is to put a straitjacket on the election next February, which had been expected to produce a less hardline parliament.The president, under siege, has two powerful weapons on his side.
Morality police reprimand women on the street who they feel are not appropriately covered, though current president Hassan Rouhani has taken a less hardline approach to the issue than his predecessor.
Bahraini dissidents hope that the accession of Sheikh Hamad, who was rumoured to have quarrelled with his uncle, will lead to a less hardline policy.But the new ruler is no soft touch.
A series of ministers have issued private warnings to No 10 to adopt a less hardline approach in Monday's debate amid growing anger at Cameron's handling of the vote.
Correspondents said the move could herald a less hardline stance in future talks.
His strong stance on fighting Isis and "Islamic terrorism" means he is unlikely to hand control of a country – where thousands of American troops died – to a scarcely less hardline group.
It would take a much less hardline political mood than the present one for them to recur.A beacon to followA less dogmatic regime in China is unlikely, but not impossible.
Uri Friedman, in an April blog post for Foreign Policy magazine, hit several bullet points of Mr. Paul's world view, including a brief take on China: Ryan appears to be less hardline and hawkish about China than Romney, who has pledged to designate Beijing as a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
The groups that have joined the Islamic Front are notably less hardline than ISIS and its ally Jabhat al-Nusra.
Christie, though a popular figure, would have annoyed the conservative wing of the party because he is less hardline than many Republicans over guns and abortion.
