How to Use hard-line in a Sentence

hard-line

adjective
  • The hard-line approach has sometimes drawn rebukes from the bench.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • That, instead, Israel needs to be much more hard-line about it, right?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The most hard-line right-wing members of the government opposed any agreement with Hamas.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Everybody’s going to judge the crap out of the movie and have very passionate, hard-line opinions.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • The win for reformists is a turn from the hard-line presidency of Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 6 July 2024
  • Raisi lost the election a year later to Hassan Rouhani, a less hard-line candidate.
    — James Hider, NPR, 20 May 2024
  • Click here to read more about Harris cooling her approach to hard-line climate change ideas.
    — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This time, Netanyahu signaled a more hard-line response.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Yet for the more hard-line thinkers in the jihadi movement, this compromise approach to Hamas did not work.
    — Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Trump’s hard-line moves against Canada make even less sense than his shows of force against China and Mexico.
    — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
  • That message, however, runs contrary to the hard-line approach now being pushed by the White House.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • But without top talent on board, hard-line back-to-the-office mandates may backfire.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • On Wednesday, Schumer relented on his hard-line stance.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The men have faced death threats from Iran over their hard-line stances on the Islamic Republic while serving under Trump.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But his hard-line Ukraine tactics have this week unnerved some of his political allies on the far right, too.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Punk was a cocktail slammer of shock, alienation, and spite, but such a hard-line aesthetic could last only so long.
    — Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • All Democrats chose to oust the former speaker, and a handful of hard-line Republicans voted against him as well.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Still, Netanyahu’s hard-line allies pressed him to continue on.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In contrast to the many hawks in the new Trump cabinet who call for a hard-line approach on China, Musk is a striking outlier.
    — Linggong Kong, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2025
  • When the relationship began to fracture in the late 1980s, only the hard-line Stalinists shed any tears.
    — Sergey Radchenko, NPR, 19 June 2024
  • My sense is Purdy will not make a hard-line stand for a record contract, but agree to a more team-friendly structure, in Tom Brady-esque fashion.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But, in recent weeks, the state’s hard-line supporters had grown angry, and mobilized.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Some hard-line members of Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition, meanwhile, cheered on the revenge attacks on Huwara.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Since then, Kaiser Health News has learned that the Democratic governor must compromise on his hard-line tweet.
    — Samantha Young, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In trying to placate his hard-line members, Johnson and other GOP leaders are fighting the last war.
    — Paul Kane, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • The cuts in the package are almost certainly both too modest to win the votes of hard-line conservatives, and too stringent to win the votes of progressives in the House.
    — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Even in the years when the far right was considered toxic in much of the country, Toulon was partial to politicians who took a hard-line stance on immigration and crime.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • However, China's hard-line take on AI could affect these stocks.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Johnson’s ascension to the speaker’s chair cements a fiercely pro-Trump, hard-line faction as the face of the national GOP.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But the White House’s hard-line immigration stance and broader economic concerns have led some Hispanic consumers to pull back their spending.
    — Amelia Lucas,brandon Gomez, CNBC, 6 May 2025

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