Some government and police officials have blamed the poison attacks on the Taliban, whose hostility to girls' education during its hardline rule in the 1990s is well documented.
According to the analysis of scholar Ruhollah Ramezani, even during periods of unmitigated hardline rule, Iran's leaders have adopted pragmatic policies to secure the long-term survival and advancement of the Islamic state, an approach Ramezani calls "spiritual pragmatism".
But that's the funny thing about religion – for all of its hardline rules, you can make it mean pretty much whatever you like.
The Office of Fair Trading OFTT) is expected to demand that high-cost lenders stop rolling over loans, leaving hard-up borrowers in a disastrous debt cycle – and it is likely to warn rogue lenders they face instant closure under new hardline rules.
Islamic State took over Sirte last year, enforcing its ultra-hardline rule on the city and basing many foreign fighters there.
Throughout 2013, Isis gained a foothold in Aleppo and Idlib, imposing hardline Islamist rule in towns and cities it had conquered, often through brutal, indiscriminate violence.
He is the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Burma for more than 50 years, and his trip - a month after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - marks a further step in the country's return to the international fold following years of hardline military rule.
Ancient pagodas, temples and shrines that had been closed during the hardline communist rule of the 1960s were reopened and restored.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the Taliban on Monday of beheading 17 villagers, including two women, in volatile Helmand province, in a gruesome attack recalling the dark days of the hardline group's rule before their 2001 overthrow.
But Klauser has such a hardline on this rule that if an accountability partner over the phone starts veering into personal issues unrelated to the goals, she'll often tell them to hang up and then call her back so that they can mentally switch tracks.
But on Monday morning, Tsipras's coalition partner, Panos Kammenos of the hardline rightwing ANEL party, ruled it non-negotiable, underscoring just how cramped is the prime minister's room for manoeuvre.
