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a hard-line approach to the sentencing of repeat offenders
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Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The Republicans' hard-line immigration policy has raised concerns over racial profiling from immigrant rights advocates.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Some members of his cabinet are far more hard-line, not only refusing to countenance an independent state but wanting to annex the territory.
—Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
North Korea’s Kim shares the blame too, but there’s no question that Yoon’s hard-line policies pushed Pyongyang into a corner.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The Republicans' hard-line immigration policy has raised concerns over racial profiling from immigrant rights advocates.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Some members of his cabinet are far more hard-line, not only refusing to countenance an independent state but wanting to annex the territory.
—Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
North Korea’s Kim shares the blame too, but there’s no question that Yoon’s hard-line policies pushed Pyongyang into a corner.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard-line
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“Hard-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-line. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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