Sentence examples for hard line refusal from inspiring English sources
European governments and their counter-terrorism officials will also have noted that Britain's hard line refusal to make substantive concessions to kidnappers comes at a heavy price.
Relations between the countries had become strained in recent years in good part over former President Thabo Mbeki's stance on AIDS — he questioned the link between H.I.V. and the disease — and his refusal to take a hard line against Zimbabwe's autocratic leader, Robert Mugabe.
His popularity at home rests in part on taking a hard line against North Korea, hitherto over the regime's refusal fully to account for Japanese kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s.
While Trump's habit of making pro-Russia statements is not new, his refusal to adopt the GOP's hard line against Putin has become a source of discomfort for Republicans.
The former prime minister, Stephen Harper, took a hard line in comparison to the progressive Liberals, and his refusal to deal with indigenous human rights issues has further damaged the relationship between the government and the community.
The assumption seems to be that these negotiations are somehow unusual or historically uncharacteristic, and therefore yet another demonstration of the refusal of the Treasury Department to draw a hard line with the banks.
This "no-body-bags" trade policy explains America's refusal to give any ground to developing countries in areas such as textiles and anti-dumping, as well as its hard line on labour issues.
A hard line had been drawn.
Texas is also taking a hard line.
Some officers held a hard line.
