Sentence examples for hardline to from inspiring English sources

Hardline to draconian: Australia's immigration policy August 2001 The Conservative Prime Minister John Howard shocks the international community by refusing to allow a Norwegian tanker carrying shipwrecked asylum-seekers to land on Christmas Island.

He is generally thought to be too hardline to win even in modern Afghanistan, but like Ghani has teamed up with a popular former militia leader – Ismail Khan, commander and then governor of western Herat – who can command a block vote.

But the Greens senator Lee Rhiannon accused Hunt of "caving in to hardline Nationals" to set an arbitrary cap on water buybacks.

But the election gave him no clear mandate, so he will find it hard to persuade the most hardline generals to make any concessions to the guerrillas.

The Republican leader in the house, John Boehner, had to abandon the attempt on Thursday night after failing to persuade enough hardline conservatives to support his bill.

In a televised address to the Pakistani nation, Gen Musharraf said his envoys had failed to persuade the hardline militia to surrender the world's most wanted man.

Meanwhile, one Canadian radio station has decided to take a hardline approach to coaxing the singer into rehabilitation.

With hardline opposition to private healthcare limited to the far-left parties, Swedes are likely to see more changes.

It happened when China eclipsed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, and began to adopt a more hardline approach to maritime disputes.

Ministers have said they want to take a more hardline approach to failed asylum seekers who have exhausted all of their appeal rights.

But the conference had earlier rejected a more hardline proposal to commit the union to four days of strikes in the autumn.