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Synonyms for hard-line

firm and uncompromising

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Islamabad/Srinagar [Pakistan/India], Feb 3 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday called up hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, in yet another provocative act on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
Hong Min, director at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said Trump needs a top aide who can support his hard-line North Korea policy, and is meticulous enough to check all the details during the upcoming dialogue.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a cleric known for his hard-line stance on blasphemy, celebrated the horrific incident in a Facebook post.
ANKARA: Hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised Iran's religious establishment by registering for the May 19 presidential election, defying a warning by the Islamic Republic's supreme leader not to enter the race.
The source concluded by saying that the EU's persistence in following the policies of some of its hard-line members like France in pursuit of financial temptations from the Arab Gulf is an offense to all the EU states as it makes it subservient to others' policies and deprives it of having any positive role in the region and the world.
Netanyahu has been Israeli prime minister since 2009, taking a hard-line in Israel's relations with the Palestinians.
The West overreacted massively to the Soviet "invasion" of Afghanistan in 1979 (actually a switch from a hard-line communist regime in Kabul to a more moderate one, with covert American support for misogynist Islamist fanatics there preceding rather than resulting from that change).
Sudbury's Hard-Line is introducing a new product to the mining industry that will increase safety for workers, with the aim of preventing injury or death on the job.
(Hard-line approach - page 17) ATTEMPTS to tackle school truancy appear to be having some success.
This was his way of winning over undecided voters that did not approve of his Cyprus problem positions and of reassuring his hard-line allies of DIKO and EUROKO, who never forgave his support for the Annan plan in 2004.
Meanwhile, hard-line Islamist groups and Imams mostly affiliated to Salafist currents gathered on Thursday evening in a meeting called for by the governor of Khartoum Abdel Rahman Al-Khidir to support Prophet Mohammed.
The hard-line Salafists disrupted classes at a university just outside Tunis.
HARD-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran yesterday, tearing down the Union Flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Dozens of Ahmadinejad's political backers have been arrested or hounded out of the public eye by hard-line forces in recent months.