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"You can only imagine how much champagne was drunk in Russia's hardline circles after the recognition of Kosovo, " says Mr Gaidar.

Top diplomats said the hardline military was now steering nuclear arms policy, making economic bargains less probable.

It would be too much of a gift to hardline Republicans if he also extended his hand to Mr Kim's clenched one.

It was a utopian dream, but one can't deny the genuinely utopian aspect of what was so much more than a hardline Islamist takeover.

Many say the party's moderate leadership does not always reflect the views of much of its more hardline rank and file.

"Resolutely adhering to one's principled stance is not the same thing as being hardline, " he said.

These days, when it attacks him as a hardline right-winger, Labour often seems to be fighting a foe that no longer really exists.

The statement certainly makes good on an earlier threat to respond to any new UN sanctions with a "super-hardline" response.

The same day, as if to emphasise his hardline credentials, Mr Lee visited the American army base in central Seoul.

A year later, this was deposed in a coup led by George Speight, a hardline Fijian nationalist.

memories remain of how the German central bank's hardline stance on inflation exacerbated Europe's exchange rate turmoil of the early 1990s.

It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.

Just as the case got started, Turkish authorities arrested more than 20 hardline nationalists, including two retired generals.

Local people said the three were members of a hardline Hutu rebel movement, the FNL, which laid down their arms in 2009.

Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's unionist first minister and a hardline Protestant, broke with tradition by attending the funeral mass.

The fragility of the markets has prompted some normally hardline reformers apparently to question the wisdom of an unbending approach.

Some of the delegates may be sympathizers with the Taliban, although members of the hardline Islamist group were not invited.

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

Nor is there any sign of the promised falling-out between a hardline Mr Putin and a liberal Mr Medvedev.

Northern Ireland's hardline Protestant cleric and lawmaker Ian Paisley praised Blair for his role in brokering peace in Northern Ireland.

Defence Minister Kim has angered the North with a string of hardline statements since taking up his post last December.

The reformist Koizumi administration began with a hardline Swedish-style approach.

Lee ended a decade of no-questions-asked aid to the destitute North and called for a hardline push for Pyongyang to disarm.

One hardline cleric has called for Karroubi, who came third in the election, to be prosecuted for making the claims.

Another analysis involves a hardline faction determined to push Belarus further towards autocracy and away from the West.

In Greece, the most disruptive strikes have been staged by hardline Communist trade unions, with larger unions showing some restraint.

Slovakia has come under particular scrutiny since the hardline Slovak National Party joined the ruling coalition in 2006.

"But personally I'm a little worried about his hardline stance toward Beijing, " Mr Toshikawa said.

But Israel and its hardline government stood firm, refusing to accept blame for the unfortunate -- and poorly planned -- raid.

Hardline Communists who organized the coup ordered tanks into the streets of Moscow and restricted the movement of then President Gorbachev.

This will push Mr Sarkozy into hardline rhetoric on immigration and security, to try to steal their thunder.

He could have become the darling of the hardline Cuban exiles, but rejected that.

Jund Ansar Allah is not the first hardline group allied to global jihad to emerge in the Gaza Strip.

Hardline Hindu organizations have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on Christians.

It also represents the increasing influence of Ms Rice following the departure from the administration of several hardline figures.

Biden, in words that will enrage many in the Tea Party, described hardline conservatives as having "acted like terrorists" .

The hardline leadership in East Berlin was powerless to stop the first mass demonstrations in decades.

Hardline settlers attacked Palestinians, set fire to fields, cut down olive trees and scuffled with Israeli security forces.

But if he meant to pillory Israel's hardline policies, going for Ms Livni missed the mark.

Some is coming from hardline Kashmiri separatists, and die hards over the border in Pakistan.

She introduced hardline uniform policies, banned the chewing of gum and showed zero tolerance to anyone infringing the new rules.

That would allow him, if elected, to cement Dawa's position ahead of the more hardline sectarian parties.

Hardline Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena, a dominant political force in Maharashtra, is backing the protests.

For hardline legislators, however, even this is not enough to protect South Korea.

The changed stance, which follows intense lobbying by the banks, will be criticised by hardline reformers.

In France President Nicolas Sarkozy is wooing National Front supporters by making hardline noises on Islam and crime.

His freedom of action is also curtailed by a range of unelected bodies mostly controlled by hardline clerics.

The Hardline philosophy was rooted in the idea of an immutable "Natural Order" .

Some see the hand of hardline Islamist groups, which work through local bookshops and mosques to encourage the spread of the niqab.

On Friday a senior hardline cleric, Ahmed Khatami, lashed out at Britain in a nationally televised sermon.

The president has adopted a hardline stance against abortion.

Hardline student leader Esmaeil Ahmadi said the students want to fight Israel in support of Hamas.

The study reveals a continent-wide spread of hardline nationalist sentiment among the young, mainly men.

The Kremlin has maintained its hardline stance towards Mr Khodorkovsky, who has been convicted of tax evasion and embezzlement.

At the time, many thought he was taking a risk that might alienate hardline Cuban-Americans.

Brian Faulkner, a hardline Unionist who had become the Prime Minister of N. I. in March 1971, wanted even stronger security measures.

Three districts in south Florida have long been the dominion of hardline Cuban-American Republicans.

The group's hardline elements oppose the presence of most western aid agencies in areas under their control.

In December Ahmad Raissouni, a hardline cleric, issued a fatwa calling on Moroccans to boycott supermarkets that sell alcohol.

But their hardline approach was not just aimed at neutralising the Greek prime minister's referendum plan.

He wants Mr Netanyahu to swap his hardline partners for Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party.

The Maoists froth at the extreme fringe of the hardline camp.

Or will it look like Iran in 2009, where a hardline regime crushed a popular protest movement with iron-fisted resolve?

Pakistan's public culture is riddled with hardline views, from the school curriculum to the nightly political talk shows.

But Paris, the ECB and IMF went along with the hardline negotiating position.

In some places it is sure to go wrong; in others it may yield to hardline Islam.

Hardline officials in China must be laughing their heads off at the Indian media circus.

"I come from the hardline, " he told me once.

Hardline red-shirt protesters are unlikely to want to give up so easily.

Some in the queue had stood with Mr Yeltsin outside Russia's parliament in 1991, to face down a hardline putsch.

A hardline Muslim youth shouts slogans during a rally outside the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta March 31, 2008.

If a hardline anti-grooming feminist such as me has an aversion to excess hair, how many women are really going to embrace it?

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