hard-line

And what deepens the mystery to me is what his hard-line position gets him.

His detractors tried to undermine his standing with Reagan, but he had support from an unlikely source—hard-line conservatives.

Mitchell himself has taken a hard line against disclosures of financial information concerning his for-profit companies.

The militants first escorted the buses to a Sharia court, where their hard-line version of Islamic law reigns supreme.

But his ultra-hard-line stance against a political solution and peace talks put him at odds with the collective leadership.

She was looking at him with cool questioning in her grey eyes, her lips drawn to a hard line.

He looked at the girl, her white face, the hard line made by a mouth that should be sweet and gentle.

He encountered a small, hard line, like a lead-line, being paid out from the forecastle and carried aft by the man who had passed.

The lips of Professor Sykes lost their genial curve; they straightened to a hard line.

Jim's Irish blue eyes were black with anger this morning and his lips set in a firm, hard line.