How to Use hard-line in a Sentence

hard-line

adjective
  • Indeed, regime change might look more like a hard-line coup than anything else.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 24 June 2025
  • 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
  • But human rights groups say an even more hard-line group is now leading the country.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • On immigration, he is said to hew to Orbán’s hard-line views.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But without top talent on board, hard-line back-to-the-office mandates may backfire.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Iran then installed his son, Mojtaba, who is viewed as even more hard-line, as supreme leader.
    — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The 'three pillars' Putin has never hidden his hard-line demands.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Still, Netanyahu’s hard-line allies pressed him to continue on.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 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
  • But Putin has not shifted from the hard-line demands underpinning his war.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The most hard-line right-wing members of the government opposed any agreement with Hamas.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Putin has made no secret of his determination to press on with the war if a deal does not grant his hard-line demands.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Vucic has sought to curb the mass demonstrations that have shaken his hard-line rule in the Balkan country.
    — Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 20 Oct. 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
  • Trump could resume his hard-line approach to tariffs when his 90-day pause ends in July.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
  • But, in recent weeks, the state’s hard-line supporters had grown angry, and mobilized.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • There was no hard-line negotiating.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
  • But now the city’s hard-line authorities are making the law even more repressive for anyone caught in its net.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Raisi lost the election a year later to Hassan Rouhani, a less hard-line candidate.
    — James Hider, NPR, 20 May 2024
  • The hard-line Keyhan newspaper raised the specter of Tehran attempting to close the strait by force.
    — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Several hard-line conservatives and fiscal hawks had grumbled about the bill prior to the rule vote.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
  • However, China's hard-line take on AI could affect these stocks.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But there are hard-line conservatives in both chambers who have been calling for the party to back a longer-term stopgap into next year.
    — Aris Folley, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The war has left Iranians under the boot of a regime that is bolder, more hard-line, and more repressive than before.
    — Holly Dagres, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026

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