Sentence examples for hardened position from inspiring English sources

The occasional glint of daylight in the political sphere is inevitably extinguished when one or another of the players moves back into its hardened position.

Anti-whaling activists and countries, including Australia and New Zealand, had hoped Tokyo would use the cover afforded by the ICJ ruling to extricate itself from a hardened position that hunting whales is an integral part of Japanese culture and must be defended.

Today in Reno, NV., Secretary Clinton criticized U.K. Independence Party leader and "Brexit" promoter Nigel Farage's address to a Trump rally in Mississippi the previous evening, citing his hardened position against immigrants and calls for their disparate treatment.

Both sides are sticking to hardened positions.

The government's hardened positions near Idlib and Aleppo quickly assumed a lethal character.

Five years of occupation have only hardened positions and damaged relations between America and Iraq.

The years since then have been a period of hardened positions and strengthened sanctions, but also of missed diplomatic opportunities.

Sorry, but you can't address the great challenges America faces today with that incoherent mix of hardened positions.

"Will Pope Francis's ecclesial decisions always exactly mirror his refreshing openness on so many previously hardened positions?

Silverman said that he did not know if the cable operators would change their hardened positions based on the attention over the upset.

The fact that anyone can view your piece leads to an exchange of ideas that either has a polarising effect or a softening of hardened positions.