That may thrill a few die-hard opponents of government, but it could have disastrous consequences.
Die-hard opponents of the agreement will probably like this book.
He and David Blunkett, the education secretary, have pressed ahead with reform plans, building (strangely) on ideas inherited from those die-hard opponents of progress, the Conservatives.
Even now, as the oyster-shaped basketball arena that will anchor a 22-acre housing and office complex rises against the low-slung Brooklyn skyline, die-hard opponents are still resisting.
Although they may not be die-hard opponents of reform, when it seemed clear that the move to close debate would not get the necessary 60 votes, they bolted so as to be able to reassure their relatively conservative constituents.
Even if they have differences over strategy, many intellectuals and activists inside China describe Mr. Liu as a dynamic thinker who appealed both to members of the party and many of its die-hard opponents.
There is also a subtle recognition, even among die-hard opponents of dredging, that something has shifted -- maybe not quite enough to alter an opinion, but perhaps enough to reconsider one's opponent.
But with the 300-mile-long, privately financed pipeline now 70percentt complete, and long green tubes replacing the palm and canelo trees, even the most die-hard opponents acknowledge that stopping the construction is next to impossible.
In April 2006, at an informal meeting of finance ministers, 12 countries (including new members Romania and Bulgaria) strongly supported a common tax base; eight cautiously backed discussions; only seven were die-hard opponents.In this section A battle at the checkout Stag or 'flation?
Even aside from the question of protecting paedophile priests, he spent much of that time censoring and suspending those of liberal persuasion while making endless efforts to bring back into the fold the die-hard opponents of the Vatican II reforms who had left it.
