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  • noun Plural form of hardliner.

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  • Also of note: several months ago, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and three other hardliners (1st VP Anne-Marie Johnson and board members Diane Ladd and Kent McCord) sued their own union, seeking to enjoin negotiations and reverse personnel and procedural changes that they correctly anticipated would pave the way for a deal on terms the hardliners are pledged to oppose.

    Jonathan Handel: SAG's Strange Voyage 2009

  • D.BBS: The fact is that a couple of Republican Congressmen -- so-called hardliners, J.D. Hayworth, John Hostettler, for example, as you know -- lost the election.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2007 2007

  • They are all described as hardliners or conservative stalwarts.

    Why Do You Need Immunity If You Haven't Broken the Law? 2007

  • As you know, at the end of August, the vice president, Dick Cheney, and other so-called hardliners in the administration were reluctant to even see the inspectors go back.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2002 2002

  • Political analyst Jan Taljaard said a split would hurt both the "new right" and the so-called hardliners, said to be led by deputy CP leader Dr Ferdi Hartzenberg and MP Schalk

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • He suggests that so-called hardliners would want to start a pre-emptive war in the hope of inducing American military action — knowing, of course, that America's participation in the war may get the Soviet Union militarily involved and hence possibly lead to a new world war.

    War for Oil? An Exchange Blankfort, Michael 1975

  • The infighting between the so-called hardliners led by Achuthanandan and the so-called reformists of Vijayan intensified after the chief minister ordered the razing of illegal constructions in the tourist hub of Munnar in Kerala.

    WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010

  • The infighting between the so-called hardliners led by Achuthanandan and the so-called reformists of Vijayan intensified after the chief minister ordered the razing of illegal constructions in the tourist hub of Munnar in

    WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010

  • How much are you concerned about those opinions on the North Korean missile launch - those so-called hardliners?

    unknown title 2009

  • Estulin also noted some considerable disagreement between "hardliners" wanting a "dramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression (versus others) who think that things have gone too far" so that "the fallout from the global economic cataclysm" can't be known, may be greater than anticipated, and may harm Bilderberger interests.

    Daniel Estulin's "True Story of the Bilderberg Group" and What They May Be Planning Now 2009

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