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hard-line
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Princeton's WordNet
hard lineadjective
a firm and uncompromising stance or position
"the governor took a hard line on drugs"
Synonyms:
hard lineAntonyms:
compromising, conciliatory, flexiblehard-line, hardlineadjective
firm and uncompromising
"a hard-line policy"
Synonyms:
hardlineAntonyms:
compromising, flexible, conciliatory
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hard-line":
hardline, hardliners, tough, uncompromising, radical, intransigent, extremist, hawkish, militant, ultra-orthodox, recalcitrant
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4924 | tough | |
#6963 | radical | |
#20046 | militant | |
#27340 | extremist | |
#39728 | uncompromising | |
#63390 | hardline | |
#70249 | recalcitrant | |
#97072 | hawkish | |
#99900 | hardliners | |
#134215 | intransigent |
How to use hard-line in a sentence?
If there is a time for the U.S. to be able to take a hard line it is now, with the Saudis having over 2 million barrels (per day) of spare capacity.
When relatives visited him, they would come back and tell us how conservative and hard-line he had become.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz:
This is not the first time that Republicans have come out with a lot of bluster, only to have reality ultimately sink in, at each pass, they took a hard line. They tried to play politics. But ultimately, they were not able to back up their threats.
If we suspect the numbers are true and we get a large number of our members who stand firm on their beliefs that this is an overreach, and they're not going to supply the information in the portal or submit to testing, then it's safe to say the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 % or less for this weekend coming up, that is not because of the FOP, that is 100 % because of the mayor's unwillingness to budge from her hard line so whatever happens because of the manpower issue, that falls at the mayor's doorstep.
We can say with some degree of confidence that they don’t like Hillary, it’s less clear that they like Trump, although over the years the Russians have said they prefer to deal with the Republicans – (that) they are kind of hard-line but they can do deals.
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