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a hard-line approach to the sentencing of repeat offenders
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There is likely no beneficial outcome for China come November, as both Trump and President Biden have sought to prove themselves hard-line negotiators in the deteriorating U.S.-China relationship.
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Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is also expected to take the stage and deliver a hard-line view of the nation’s undocumented immigrant problem under Biden.
—Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
When some American communist leaders tried to reform the party with majority support, however, the Soviets coordinated a campaign of international communist leaders to bolster the hard-line Stalinist holdouts and crush the reformers.
—Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
The House Freedom Caucus, a group of three dozen hard-line anti-institutionalist Republican lawmakers, and the Steering Committee, a similar group in the Senate, headed by Lee, hold weekly meetings at C.P.I.’s headquarters.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is also expected to take the stage and deliver a hard-line view of the nation’s undocumented immigrant problem under Biden.
—Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
When some American communist leaders tried to reform the party with majority support, however, the Soviets coordinated a campaign of international communist leaders to bolster the hard-line Stalinist holdouts and crush the reformers.
—Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
The House Freedom Caucus, a group of three dozen hard-line anti-institutionalist Republican lawmakers, and the Steering Committee, a similar group in the Senate, headed by Lee, hold weekly meetings at C.P.I.’s headquarters.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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“Hard-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-line. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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