Royal Mail later blamed a hard core element of London postal union leaders for refusing to endorse a proposal that both sides had agreed to.
It also has added younger members of the kind more likely to watch and vote for a "GOT," which is not only a genre program but has a lot of violent and harder core elements.
Its insularity broke down as hip-hop and hard-core elements moved in; its blues roots receded further.
It could be that we are getting down to the more hard-core elements of the former regime, that are actually out now taking action themselves".
While Indonesia has a long tradition of moderation, it was badly destabilized with the end of military rule in 1998, which gave rise to Islamist politicians who preached righteousness and to some hard-core elements, who practiced violence.
Perhaps because of his unusual background, his assignment here centered on the most hazardous and remote area of the tribal region: North and South Waziristan, the base of the most hard-core elements of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Most often, militants who have inched toward reconciliation with the government or form anti-Taliban militias with the Pakistani military's support are attacked by hard-core elements within the Taliban.
Important parts of the strategy would be to exploit what diplomats here say are fissures in the Taliban, to separate what amounts to day-wage fighters from the movement's hard-core elements, whom many officials consider to be "irreconcilable," and to divide the Taliban from Al Qaeda.
Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of American forces with turning the war around in the last two years.
But a senior official who briefed Israeli reporters on Wednesday acknowledged that those arrested did not include "hard-core elements". The Palestinians were bused to the border in the dead of night without any public announcement and with the entire operation placed under military censorship.
