And some domestic editorials have alluded to the link between a hard-line foreign policy stance and domestic self-confidence. |
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The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions. |
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Draganova is a member of the hard-line Stalinist Bulgarian Communist Party. |
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If we suppose their country near collapse, then a hard-line, confrontational approach may be the proper prescription. |
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Given the hard-line nature of the regime in Iran, it is no surprise that negotiations have been difficult. |
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Anti-Palestinian repression is not just the policy of hard-line right-wing Zionism. |
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Nevertheless, despite its hard-line initial statements, the ECB is proving more flexible in its actions. |
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Inevitably, some minority groups will continue to pursue a hard-line stance and refuse any offers of peaceful reconciliation. |
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Patent litigation is expensive, and a large company can wear down almost anyone if it adopts a hard-line stance. |
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Meanwhile, Oliphant said Safa has noted with extreme concern the hard-line attitude of the city officials in Cape Town. |
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He has the great advantage in politics of being popular with people who are not just hard-line members of his own party. |
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The impasse is encouraging hard-line Unionists to target the rule as a critical flaw of the reforms they oppose. |
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One can only hope that Teheran's hard-line clerics haven't been reading the Washington Post. |
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You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes. |
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The parallel British demilitarisation of the province, will also be tough on hard-line unionists. |
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These judges should not be hard-line ideologues for the controlling political party. |
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Too often, he failed to understand how he was perceived not by hard-line Democrats, but by the general public. |
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As a result, politics has been dominated by hard-line ethnic parties ever since. |
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But now, nobody's questioning, except a few hard-line pro-rights activists. |
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Many of the madrassas were run by Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islami, one of Pakistan's main hard-line religious parties. |
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As a character, the sheriff elevates that film because he genuinely believes in hard-line justice. |
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Chelmsford's new detective inspector has vowed to purge the town of criminals through a hard-line proactive attitude to crime. |
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He may have recanted on the hard-line economics, but people here still regard him as one of the leaders of the English party. |
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Conservatives ran virtually unopposed in the election after the hard-line Guardian Council disqualified thousands of reformist candidates. |
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The lack of progress has hardened feelings of embitterment and emboldened hard-line rejectionists on both sides of the divide. |
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That hard-line stance against ambush marketing shouldn't deter companies from pushing the envelope. |
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And what deepens the mystery to me is what his hard-line position gets him. |
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They have been warned by hard-line mullahs and the Taliban not to participate in antipolio programs. |
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Jamie Kirchick offers a vigorous defense of Germany's hard-line against Scientology. |
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There is no doubt that, objectively, some of her positions are, indeed, hard-line. |
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While hard-line Communists stereotype capitalists as bloodsuckers of the working class, others defend them as socially conscious. |
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They are bullheaded enough, hard-line enough for their own ideological prejudices to carry the day in the end. |
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Blunkett, the hard-line hammer of the criminals, the bulwark against the terrorist threat, was the natural front man for such a campaign. |
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There's no question that he is among the last, if not the last, of his genre of old-line, hard-line Marxist-Leninist leaders. |
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They are the latest in his hard-line approach to policing and are sure to further anger the civil rights lobby. |
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This group of lawyers is as renowned for fearsome intellect as it is for hard-line conservative politics. |
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With respect to China, it is true that September 11 did block movement toward a new hard-line policy from Washington that some administration hawks may have wanted. |
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Radical and hard-line criticism was poured on senior teachers. |
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If fuel prices continue to rise and the Government is not prepared to do something about fuel duty, then it had better look out, warn hard-line farmers. |
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The text alerts readers to the insidious nature of hard-line advertising and to the methods by which producers build audiences. |
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This has enabled hard-line Unionists to mount their wrecking operation. |
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Meanwhile, frustrations over violence and insecurity have been manipulated in such a way that a majority of Jamaicans supports hard-line policing and punishment. |
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Ironically, it appears that the current inflexible, hard-line, U. S. foreign policy is having the effect of isolating the United States, rather than the DPRK in the Far East. |
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In other words, hard-line conservatives might still prevail in Arizona. |
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If people begin honest dialogues with others they are predisposed to trust, they might be less inclined to take a hard-line position in the broader gun debate. |
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The Government must be backed by a credible security force that can help it to negotiate from a position of strength and contain hard-line elements bent on undermining it. |
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While recognizing the seriousness of the situation and expressing his surprise at the hard-line attitude adopted by the Government, Ambassador Sylvestre pointed out the limits of options available to the Canadian government. |
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Only in hard-line East Germany did change come from outside and below, catalyzed by grassroots protests. |
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After taking office, his initial tough stance following the collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet confirmed his hard-line instincts. |
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So why does he sound so much like a new-age hard-line feminist? |
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Days before the deadline, vintner lobbyists nationwide moderated their hard-line attitude and signalled acknowledgement that the new law was about to be a fact of life. |
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And thus the sweet and bucolic ride of the beginning can very well change to the enduro hard-line. |
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These experts risk deflating the balloon of hard-line ecologists, but you have to admit that they're not wrong. |
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The RFU's hard-line stance would appear to significantly increase the prospects of the South Africanborn prop forward getting a career-threatening twoyear ban. |
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A police let-off will no longer be an option under new hard-line proposals being discussed by ministers and senior police. |
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But soon afterward he revealed himself as a hard-line leftist who argued that America's capitalist culture gave rise to its racist public schools. |
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It is feared the girls have joined a group of female British jihadis who run the hard-line IS religious police force. |
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For that reason, the last thing the state needs as a governor is an unapologetically hard-line Democrat like state Treasurer Phil Angelides has become. |
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Dr Naomi Wright didn't exactly look like your hard-line striking picketer. |
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I walked into the theatre hoping for a nice evening and came out as a hard-line Marxist, my head a whirl of closets, delusions, and blunt-clawed cattiness. |
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Lest anyone be inclined to think otherwise, his hard-line judiciary can, through a committee of its own, ensure that no official pursues relations with the United States. |
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Mr Rajapakse won his narrow election victory with the help of hard-line Sinhalese nationalist groups who oppose any concessions to the rebels, while the Tigers are suspected of having used the ceasefire to rearm and regroup. |
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Nevertheless, as has already been said, the policy of blockade and isolation to which Cuba has been subjected by several western powers for decades has only toughened the position of the hard-line sectors of the regime. |
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Though initially adopting a hard-line stance, the politician soon started to backpedal. |
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Wilson extensively rely on this economistic model in their hard-line analysis of crime. |
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It's a politically-geared campus that literally exists to try to repopulate Washington with hard-line fundamentalists. |
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Once Shaw returns home, his battlefield exploits are quickly taken advantage of by Iselin, a hard-line McCarthyesque anti-communist crusader. |
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Even without interference from hard-line unionists, the assembly faces failure unless the UUP agrees to work with its historic enemy, Sinn Fein. |
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Howley's actions belie her superficially hard-line position. |
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In contrast to individuating or modernizing Islamists in Snow who defy popular stereotypes, Pamuk's depiction of hard-line secularists is caricatural. |
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The Controlled Substances Act is a hard-line, no-exceptions law that places marijuana in the same category as heroin and LSD, drugs with no legitimate use. |
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Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders. |
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It has many different uses, but principal among them is to offer some facade of being reasonable while actually copper-fastening the speaker's own hard-line position. |
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