As for Mr. Hague, she persuaded him to abandon efforts to move the party to the center and encouraged him to adopt a hard-line strategy on Europe that held little appeal for voters in last year's election.
But Pakistanis who have been watching the case closely say they regard the arrests -- apparently of a grandfather and an uncle of Mr. Sheikh's, among others -- as part of a new hard-line strategy by the government.
The agreement is a huge setback for the hard-line strategy that emerged most notoriously in Arizona and took root in Alabama and elsewhere — the idea that states and communities can force immigrants to "self-deport" by making their lives unbearable.
Alarmed at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's comments earlier this week that Israel would intentionally cause casualties among the Palestinians to force them to the bargaining table, the Bush administration decided to terminate its unequivocal support for Mr. Sharon's hard-line strategy and declared today that his approach would likely fail.
With Congress locked in an intractable budget dispute that kept the federal government shut down for a second day on Wednesday, Mr. Reid is not only acting as the public face of the no-compromise posture of Democrats on Capitol Hill, he is the power behind the scenes driving a hard-line strategy that the White House and Congressional Democrats are hoping will force Republicans to crack.
The owners have adopted a hard-line strategy that entails locking the players out if they do not agree to certain terms.
Sessions, who was rewarded with the job of attorney general for his early support, was the logical person to launch Team Trump's new hard-line strategy of trying to discredit Russia investigations on Capitol Hill and at the Department of Justice.
But Washington can still succeed in destabilizing Pakistan if it perpetuates its present hard-line strategies.
But many experts questioned Mr. Cameron's decision to take such a hard line, abandoning Britain's traditional strategy of acting both within and without the European club.
In February 1946, George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow helped to articulate the US government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets, and became the basis for US strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War.
But Nicholas Spiro, managing director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy in London, argued that Mr. Weidmann's hard line served her purposes, ensuring that any central bank bond buying would come with many strings attached.
