Clemens knows his father better -- played horseshoes with him -- but sure, Clemens knows George W. Saw him last in Kennebunkport, Me., on the day a group of hardline Communists attempted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
The trust has been the focus of allegations made in the anonymous "Trojan horse" letter – widely held to be a hoax – alleging the existence of a clique of hardline Muslims attempting to seize control of Birmingham schools.
In his speeches in recent weeks, Ghalibaf has tried to win the support of both reformists and hardline conservatives, attempting to present himself as a politician who can work with both.
The trust has been the focus of allegations made in the anonymous Trojan Horse letter alleging the existence of a clique of hardline Muslims attempting to seize control of Birmingham schools.
North Korea was this week lambasting America's "unilateral hardline policy"—a clear attempt to drive wedges between America and its two best allies in the region.But Mr Kelly also had other audiences, one of them watching sceptically from home.
A lack of coherent leadership on the opposition side, and an attempt by hardline civilian and military figures to hijack the revolt, caused the collapse of the new regime after less than two days, and Chávez returned in triumph.
As a result, those now calling the shots in Gaza are from the group's hardline wing.Similarly, Israel's attempt to destroy the Palestinian leadership in exile by invading Lebanon in 1982 fuelled support for Hizbullah, a Shia group that shooed the army out of Lebanon 18 years later and gave it a drubbing in the summer war of 2006.
Mater told me that Ashraf had been getting in with some of the more hardline religious groups in an attempt to open a dialogue, "to explain art and contemporary art, and the ideas behind it".
While presented openly as a well-meant attempt to bring 16 hardline fighting units back wholly under Ahrar al-Sham's command, Hashem al-Sheikh was in reality committing a semi-coup: threatening behind the scenes to break-away with his hardline loyalists unless his strategic opinions weren't better acknowledged.
A hardline backlash always looms large over any attempt by a new government in Tehran to present itself as one that the West can talk to.
