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a hard-line approach to the sentencing of repeat offenders
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The administration has clamped down on immigrants with hard-line policies designed to deter migration.
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Billal Rahman
dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
That is a much more hard-line way of stating what Trump has already pledged himself: that the United States is willing to get weapons to Ukraine but only if European allies pay for them.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Billal Rahman
dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
That is a much more hard-line way of stating what Trump has already pledged himself: that the United States is willing to get weapons to Ukraine but only if European allies pay for them.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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“Hard-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-line. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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