Sentence examples for hardline challenge from inspiring English sources

However, Paisley Jr must be privately hoping that the local bookies have called it right, given that they still have him as the evens favourite to win the seat for the DUP and decisively see off the hardline challenge from anti-power-sharing unionism.

Let's try a little Folger's switch with this: "Rafsanjani Hardline conservatives challenged Ahmadinejad Khatami in the 2005 1997 elections and lost.

But my so-far fleeting brush with the haters has reminded me why I hesitated for years to write a Martí biography that might challenge hardline views of their national idol.

In March 1983, he appointed General Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani as head of the armed forces who adopted a hardline on elements who challenged the administration.

His main challenger, hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi, received 38percentt.

But the DUP did remain set to retain its other eight Westminster seats, with the party seeing off a challenge from the hardline anti-power-sharing Traditional Unionist Voice.

DUBAI/BEIRUT, May 20 (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani pledged on Saturday to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, throwing down a defiant challenge to his hardline opponents after securing a decisive re-election for a second term.

The closures cannot usefully be challenged; the same hardline ideologues who issued the order also dominate the appellate courts.

Whether that can be done in the current climate – where the government's proposed changes to labour laws have been challenged by the hardline CGT union for months – remains to be seen.

The sermon was a direct challenge to Khamenei and his hardline supporters, who have called on opposition supporters to drop their claims of vote fraud.

If they all suddenly were forced to return home - anti-foreigner sentiment is high among Gbagbo's hardline supporters - it would present huge challenges for President Blaise Compaoré, who had previously served as a mediator in Ivory Coast.