It has made things more difficult for the reformers, boosting the hardliners and causing division and disturbances in the capital Tehran. |
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The Communist Party, absorbed by a struggle between reformists and hardliners, feared its security forces were disintegrating. |
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There is a call for peaceful direct action that could leave the hardliners with a certain but hollow victory when the election results come in. |
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Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement. |
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Our erstwhile ska hardliners are now essentially a four-piece, with saxist Lorraine front and centre handling vocal duty. |
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The never ending power struggles between the hardliners and reformers certainly does not help to cool their heads. |
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Some observers believe Kim Jong Il is now a captive of his military hardliners. |
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In recent weeks, German hardliners have exploited the anniversary of Dresden to gain political support. |
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Of course hardliners of different political parties would have different views. |
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Since then, his reforms have largely been stymied by theological and political hardliners. |
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Most KPPSI activists and hardliners come from UMI, where Abdurrahman Basalamah was once rector. |
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For one thing, the military itself is divided between reformists and hardliners. |
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Rather than admit this, our dovish defeatists have turned themselves into the hardest of hardliners. |
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Police were called out to guard cinemas after protests by Hindu hardliners. |
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So far, every time the reformers have tried to open up the system, the hardliners have closed it back down. |
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Lu is a maverick who attracts the support of the pro-independence hardliners. |
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The reformists control the foreign ministry, the hardliners control the military. |
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During that struggle, support tends to solidify around the hardliners, giving them an authority ordinary politicians lack. |
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If we cut off all relations, the hardliners among the Government may retaliate against civilians, humanitarian workers and UNMIS personnel. |
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The clampdown that followed the presidential election marked the victory of the siloviki, hardliners led by Viktor, one of Lukashenko's sons. |
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The decision by Iranian women to adopt surreptitious and individualistic strategies aims at avoiding arousing suspicion from hardliners. |
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Iran's hardliners see their nuclear program and their repression as integrally linked. |
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At the very least, it will badly damage the reputation of the hardliners. |
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He says hardliners in China see nothing at all to gain in having a papal nuncio in Beijing. |
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The hardliners want a weapons handover before they would consider an inclusive government with republicans. |
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In a sense, the hardliners in the military and intelligence services are no different from a widow or widower who cannot accept the death of a spouse. |
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He fears that hardliners could initiate a conservative clampdown. |
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Gilad Sharon said the resignation was designed to curry favor with hardliners. |
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As a result of Khamenei's backing, hardliners refrained from attacking Zarif during the talks. |
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Foreign investors quaked, worrying that a group of ex-KGB hardliners intent on renationalizing the Russian economy had seized control of the Kremlin. |
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The two rulings are a triumph for hardliners at the interior ministry who lobbied for tighter controls on nightclubs that they blame for leading Thai youth astray. |
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Leila Hatami pecked the director of the Cannes Film Festival and was quickly denounced as a sinner by hardliners at home. |
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Most Baluchis are Sunnis and are afraid of the Shiite hardliners. |
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He predicted the downfall of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and other hardliners in the 2012 election. |
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Typically, the opposing hardliners only strike a deal after a long and bitter conflict in which the terrible costs of continuing strife have been made unmistakably clear. |
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They close the surrounding area in order to deter any reinforcements for the hardliners and to isolate them. |
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We believe the legislation would likely have a profoundly negative impact on the ongoing negotiations – emboldening Iranian hardliners. |
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The objections of the Iranian hardliners are directed at the activities of not only governments but civil society groups. |
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The hardliners believe that without the Dalai Lama, Tibet would be forgotten. |
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Party hardliners, who included a call for reenactment of the ban in the 2012 Party Platform, must have been pleased. |
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In December Mr Abbott led the party's hardliners in tearing up the deal and then unseated Mr Turnbull. |
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With hardliners in the ascendant, hope of turning aside Iran's troubling nuclear ambitions is fading too. |
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But Stormont has been suspended for over a year and the deadlock will continue, given the swing towards republican and unionist hardliners. |
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Apparently under pressure from hardliners back home, he later claimed that his comments had been distorted. |
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As prime minister Alexis Tsipras scrambles to secure a financial lifeline to keep the debt-stricken country afloat, hardliners in his radical left Syriza party have also ratcheted up the pressure. |
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Well, the hardliners say, those nasty North Koreans refuse to compromise. |
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The World Bank is viewed with suspicion by hardliners, who see it as a meddler in the affairs of developing countries and a purveyor of ideas that could undermine party rule in China. |
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But doctrinaire conservatives loathe Jeb for his moderate line on immigration and for supporting the Common Core, national education standards that hardliners call a liberal plot to brainwash kids. |
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The remarks appear to reflect deepening US pessimism on Iran following the June presidential elections, which brought an entrenchment by hardliners in Tehran. |
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But there are also hardliners – militants itching for a fight. |
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But as Indian hardliners glower, and Pakistan realises he will not talk about the one issue they want to discuss the status of Kashmir relations will go back into cold storage. Simon Long Indiaa correspondent, The Economist. |
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Likewise, UMNO hardliners might argue that what is needed now is to bolster support among its Malay core by replacing Mr Najib with a less bashful Malay supremacist. |
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Neither the west nor the Iranian people have the remotest interest in sanctions continuing, and Rouhani needs every card he can play against his hardliners. |
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As president, he will face risks in giving more power to state and local authorities where traditionalist hardliners are stronger, yet the times demand decentralization. |
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So to seasoned observers it was abundantly clear that once again President Milosevic had opted for the solution offered him by the hardliners, that is, the overwhelming use of force. |
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They would need to prove that such a gesture would change the minds of hardliners and extremists in countries which are developing these nuclear capabilities. |
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In China, there are not only hardliners and not only nationalists. |
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The sudden death of nearby Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, from a heart attack on April 5th, has helped to focus concern. Mr Mugabe's mortality terrifies the security bosses and hardliners in his Zanu-PF party. |
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The president warned that this process could still fail and hardliners in both Tehran and Washington will do their damnedest to see that it does. Failure would be a grave loss. |
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At its national-executive meeting this week in Mumbai, the moderate Mr Vajpayee hinted at retirement, while hardliners reasserted the party's Hindu-nationalist roots. |
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But analysts predict that the polls will be boycotted by al-Wefaq and other opposition parties and that it will suit government hardliners if that happens. |
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Their centrist movement, claiming to have Supreme Leader Khamen'i's support, has distanced itself from the judiciary's hardliners like Alizadeh. |
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In recent months, hardliners have moved to extend segregation in colleges, and have now struck at the pre-school level. |
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So far, President Zedillo has continued his predecessor's push for a peaceful solution, although party hardliners and local landowners want a more aggressive government response. |
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Some hardliners on all sides reject peace or a two-state solution, but on the 40th anniversary of the six-day war it is clear that this is the only viable long-term solution for a lasting peace in the region. |
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Unification of the city of Mostar has proceeded relatively well, given the complexity of the process and the efforts of some hardliners to block progress. |
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Or will hardliners know how to avoid this? |
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Are the hardliners getting the upper hand? |
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For our part, we have to be willing to have some element of risk to make it impossible for the hardliners to portray Europe as if Europe and the US are the same thing. |
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In this the Reformers will have some tacit support from the more pragmatic hardliners, including the Supreme Guide, who have recognised where their longer term interests lie. |
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But with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenehi backing Rohani's diplomatic efforts publicly, the hardliners have no real path to forcing a change in government. |
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He did not single out any particular critic or criticism, but Zarif has been subject to considerable criticism and even personal abuse from hardliners. |
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Hardliners have closed down more than 30 reformist newspapers in a bid to choke calls for reform. |
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Hardliners were recently aghast at reports the TSO had allowed a woman to sing solo at a performance. |
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Hardliners in Iran have continued to reaffirm the death sentence. |
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