They were worried that not enough was happening to defeat Prop 8, and more worried still about the dogged hardcore opposition to same-sex marriage in their own party.
As many as 742,000 students could be impacted by a discontinuation of DACA, a program implemented by President Obama in the face of hardcore opposition by Republican members of Congress to approve comprehensive immigration reform put forth by Obama and President George W. Bush before him.
Some 16 months since Mubarak's ouster, Egypt's disparate opposition — hardcore activists, liberal politicians, some Islamists — is still relying on the same old tactic of cramming bodies into Tahrir Square without presenting a unified list of concrete demands.
But the opposition of hardcore fans of the long-running series indicates that by moving the franchise in a "space opera" direction more closely associated with rival series Star Wars, the film-maker and TV guru has lost touch with the audience that has kept Star Trek alive for decades.
There's no problem in the Senate this time, and there are enough House Republicans to join with House Democrats and pass a "clean C.R". — one without various anti-Obamacare measures attached — despite opposition from the hardcore conservatives.
Despite calls to protest from the now banned Muslim Brotherhood and hardcore Egyptian football fans, organised political opposition is thin on the ground.
What to do in such a situation, with the country split right down the middle, and a Republican opposition driven by a hardcore faction that believes the country has been stolen from them by treacherous and unpatriotic forces?
Alternative rock is a diverse grouping of rock bands that in America developed largely from the hardcore scene in the 1980s in stark opposition to the mainstream music scene.
Parliament is being serially disrespected, say critics: not by journalists, but by a government that has rushed through a tsunami of legislation with barely any consultation, and which ignores or overrides opposition proposals.Even Mr Köver, a hardcore Fidesz loyalist, has admitted as much.
Hardcore gamers and free-to-play games are often pitched in opposition to one another, yet one of the most hardcore genres – multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games like League of Legends and Dota 2 – are freemium.
It was another sign of the cataclysmic sectarian confrontation the battle of Aleppo has become for the rebels arrayed against Assad, not to mention the growing integration of hardcore jihadists in rebel ranks despite U.S. efforts to wean the opposition of them. .
