Sentence examples for hardline stand from inspiring English sources

While the former prime minister, Tony Abbott, was only too eager to bang the drum for the Australian government's hardline stand in his Margaret Thatcher lecture on Wednesday, Abyan's story betrays unease in Canberra and elsewhere on the mainland.

Under the younger Assad, it has strengthened its 30-year-old strategic alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ramped up weapons deliveries to Hizbullah, the intractable and well-armed Shia movement in Lebanon, and promoted a hardline stand by Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group that pioneered suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.

And, in another example of his fondness for populism, he has gained support for his hardline stand against an invasion of Iraq a policy which might come back to haunt him if he wins.Ultimately much will depend, if the election is as close as predicted, on the small parties the Free Democrats (or liberals), the Greens and the ex-communists.

The hardline stand against reporter's privilege -- the DOJ briefs always put the term in quotation marks -- is a hallmark of the Obama administration's unprecedented crackdown over leaks.

The AP noted it was a "mixed blessing" for Giuliani "due to Wilson's hardline stand on illegal immigration," which was credited for "driving Hispanics from the GOP in California".

The LIBE amendment represents a hardline stand with only few concessions specifically for research, adapted to Member States with the least favourable conditions for large-scale epidemiology, but admittedly with some option for Member States to relax the provisions.

However, the hardline party stands to benefit from anger towards the government, mainly from Aegean islanders who say this year's tourism season was hurt by failure to manage the refugee influx.

But Mr Abe's hardline credentials will stand him in good stead.

In either narrative, drone strikes serve a very specific purpose, namely to eliminate the hardline naysayers who might stand in the way of future reconciliation.

Most frustrating of all is Iran's hardline judiciary, which stands solidly in the way of greater freedom of expression.

There were countless moments in this campaign to stand up to hardline social conservatism: when Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, when Todd Akin said pregnancy cannot result from legitimate rape, when Rick Santorum claimed that John F. Kennedy's speech about separation of church and state made him sick, and countless more.